Resource Center

Resource: White Papers
Number of Items: 2

Monday, September 01, 2008
Rural Integrative Care Planning in Sullivan County

The term Integrated Primary Care describes a clinical practice that integrates behavioral and medical health services within a primary healthcare setting...Rural areas, confronted with economic, geographic, and cultural barriers, face unique and significant challenges providing adequate mental health care...Behavioral health interventions hold promise for improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders in the primary care setting, with strong evidence of effectiveness in improving patients' physical and mental health status.

Planning and Implementing a Statewide Telehealth Program in New Hampshire

This white paper is a guide to help policy makers, insurers, legislators, funding agencies, foundations, health care providers, state agencies, patients, and the entire health care system in New Hampshire plan and implement a statewide telehealth system. The long-term goal of a coordinated statewide telehealth program is to establish a sustainable, cost-effective telehealth network.