Source: EHR Intelligence
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have partnered on an initiative that aims to advance behavioral health IT interoperability. The agencies will invest more than $20 million of SAMHSA funds over the next three years to advance behavioral health IT data standards. Health IT adoption across behavioral health providers lags other providers, partially due to their exclusion from health IT incentive programs, such as those under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).