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Wider use of proven treatment is goal of opioid-use disorder APM

The Patient-Centered Opioid Addiction Treatment (P-COAT) model was developed by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the AMA, and is designed to support and facilitate coordination between treatment providers…The P-COAT model is designed to increase the number of patients who can successfully manage their condition while also reducing health care spending on costs associated with OUD, such as emergency department visits and hospitalizations.

Overcoming Data-Sharing Challenges in the Opioid Epidemic: Integrating Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Primary Care

This paper summarizes the requirements of the federal SUD confidentiality rules set forth under 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 2, discusses the steps that primary care practices currently take to effectively coordinate SUD care without violating the rules, suggests additional compliance strategies that might enhance data sharing, and offers for consideration modest revisions to the rules that could promote the integration of care without undermining patient privacy. 

Primary Care and the Opioid-Overdose Crisis — Buprenorphine Myths and Realities

Mobilizing the PCP workforce to offer office-based buprenorphine treatment is a plausible, practical, and scalable intervention that could be implemented immediately. The opioid-overdose epidemic is complex and will require concerted efforts on multiple fronts, but few other evidence-based actions would have such an immediate lifesaving effect.

Learning Health Systems (LHS)

Learning Health Systems (LHS) is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal published in collaboration with the University of Michigan. With a goal of advancing the interdisciplinary area of learning health systems, the journal promotes research, scholarship, and dialogue focused on theory, complex issues, conceptual syntheses, education models and more. LHS seeks to achieve continuous rapid improvement in health and healthcare and to transform organizational practice. The journal includes research reports, experience reports, technical reports, briefs and commentaries

How States use Data to Inform Decisions: A national review of the use of administrative data to improve state decision-making

This study highlights ways in which some government leaders have employed sophisticated data analytics, beyond traditional uses of administrative data. Five key actions that state leaders can use to address challenges and maximize data value are presented. 

Doctors Are Changing San Diego’s Opioid Prescribing Practices: How a CHCF Leadership Program alumnus harnessed data to educate physicians and patients

The strategy used by the San Diego medical group, which is working to tackle the opioid epidemic, is to educate prescribers and patients so that longstanding medical practice patterns can be updated.

Guns, Obesity, and Opioids: A Population Health Science Perspective on 3 Contemporary Epidemics

 How can we identify what matters most within a broad range of causal factors in these epidemics, and can we draw cross-epidemic inferences that will help inform our thinking? A population health science perspective can offer an organizing set of principles that can guide the questions scientists ask about these epidemics, and therefore the actions policymakers and public health practitioners take. 

Tackling an Epidemic: An Assessment of the California Opioid Safety Coalitions Network

The purpose of this report is to capture the key successes and challenges across the network of CHCF-supported coalitions…The report includes a set of considerations as CHCF determines its future approach for advancing opioid safety efforts in California.

SOCI 12th Annual Symposium – Applying A.I. to Address Critical Social Challenges – Mural

SOCI 12th Annual Symposium – Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust – Mural