The Commission continued its discussion on how greater adoption of health information technology could facilitate clinical integration with behavioral health by summarizing the barriers related to health information technology. At prior Commission meetings MACPAC discussed the low rates of electronic health records (EHR) adoption and patient information sharing among behavioral health providers.
This presentation contained three policy options that address: (1) the quality of behavioral health focused EHRs, (2) Medicaid mechanisms to finance behavioral health connections to health information exchanges, and (3) testing behavioral health EHR incentive payments through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.