A Learning Behavioral Health Care System: Opportunities to Enhance Research

Accelerating Research Impact in a Learning Health Care System

BACKGROUND Since 1998, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) has supported more rapid implementation of research into clinical practice. OBJECTIVES With the passage of the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 (Choice Act), QUERI further evolved to support VHA's transformation into a Learning Health Care System by aligning sc...

Behavioral research on biomedical sexual health technologies: opportunities and directions.

As new sexual health technologies are evaluated and ultimately introduced to the public , behavioral scientists will have unique research opportunities, because biomedical interventions will have limited effect unless individuals are willing to use them and adhere to their requirements. Achieving this acceptance depends upon an understanding of the attitudes and knowledge of the individuals tar...

Transdisciplinary care: opportunities and challenges for behavioral health providers.

Seizing opportunities under the Affordable Care Act for transforming the mental and behavioral health system.

The Affordable Care Act, along with Medicaid expansions, offers the opportunity to redesign the nation's highly flawed mental health system. It promotes new programs and tools, such as health homes, interdisciplinary care teams, the broadening of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services option, co-location of physical health and behavioral services, and collaborative care. Provisions of t...

Opportunities for occupational therapy behavioral health: a call to action.

Virginia C. Stoffel, PhD, OT, BCMH, FAOTA, is President-Elect, American Occupational Therapy Association, and Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Technology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201; [email protected] The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA; Pub. L. 111– 148) provides a window of opportunity for occupational t...