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AMA commends federal support to expand pediatric mental health care access

Fund will make behavioral health care more accessible and equitable to children and adolescents.

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6 ways to make behavioral health care more equitable in practice

Integrating behavioral health into primary care helps more patients access services. Learn how your practice also can target care inequities.

Health Equity
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Treating behavioral health to boost patients’ overall outcomes

Learn how physicians are integrating behavioral health care into their primary care practices to improve the health of patients with chronic conditions.

Behavioral Health
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How to advance equity by integrating behavioral health

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See daily video updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing the integration of behavioral health in physician practices to advance health equity.

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Health Equity
AMA Update
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How to protect privacy when integrating behavioral health care

Learn how physician practices can comply with privacy laws when sharing sensitive mental health information to meet their patients’ needs.

Behavioral Health
Feb 25, 2021 ·
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Behavioral health integration strategies for independent practices

In this webinar, physician practice experts provide an overview of their experience integrating behavioral health, how they got started, the challenges and barriers they encountered and how they overcame those challenges and continue to measure success.

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Events
AMA STEPS Forward® Innovation Academy Webinar Series
Jan 27, 2021 ·
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Privacy and security: Communication of behavioral health information

This webinar provided an overview of the current behavioral health privacy and security landscape. Watch now and download the slides.

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Events
AMA STEPS Forward® Innovation Academy Webinar Series
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Integrate behavioral health into your practice, step by step

Great new resource from AMA-led collaborative details why behavioral health integration matters and how to make it effective for physician practices.

Behavioral Health
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How to dismantle stigmas surrounding mental health conditions

A big part of improving access to behavioral health care is for physicians to help tackle the shame and blame that sometimes surrounds such care.

Behavioral Health