Guide to Low Cost or Free Drug Rehab Options
The Delphi Behavioral Health Group put together a comprehensive overview of all options on low cost guide or free drug rehab options and how to navigate them. It discusses almost every aspect and [...]
Telehealth Capacity Assessment Tool
The TCAT is designed to help organizations assess their readiness to adopt telehealth technologies. The initial step in the assessment process is to determine organizational readiness. The [...]
Technology Based Supervision Guidelines
The purpose of this document is to provide substance use disorder (SUD) and other behavioral health professional licensing and certification boards with guidelines and associated rationale for [...]
Putting telemedicine behind bars
Putting telemedicine behind bars By Erica Teichert | October 22, 2016 Dr. Vinh Pham treats dozens of patients from New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex with hepatitis C and other [...]
MATx: A Mobile App to Support the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
In 2015, nearly 2.4 million Americans had an opioid use disorder1 and close to 80 percent of these individuals did not receive treatment.2 MATx empowers health care practitioners to provide [...]
Patients trained to manage their healthcare may have better outcomes
Science Spotlight Article Credit: The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): June 22, 2016 Research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reveals that teaching patients in [...]
Opiate Brief – including news of state legislative actions
Legislatures In the New England Region Continue to Pass Bills to Control Opioid Abuse] Recent Legislation in Maine Maine Legislature Overrides Governor LePage’s Veto of “Narcan” [...]
Substance Use and Suicide Publication
We are pleased to announce availability of a new publication, In Brief: Substance Use and Suicide: A Nexus Requiring A Public Health Approach. This publication highlights the relationship between [...]
2015 State of the Connected Patient
To explore current attitudes and methods in how Americans today communicate and manage their health with providers, Salesforce conducted its “2015 State of the Connected Patient” report. Based [...]
Telehealth & Technology Community
The National Frontier and Rural (NFAR) ATTC is excited to announce a new online Telehealth & Technology Community page! On February 16, 2016, NFAR will launch the Telehealth & Technology [...]
