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CBHL Leadership Community | Supporting the Uptake of Behavioral Health Apps and Technology
Thursday, June 6, 2024
11:00 am PT / 12:00 pm MT / 1:00 pm CT / 2:00 pm ET
Event length: 75 minutes
First Session Theme: Conducting an analysis to assess how technology can support treatment needs
Are you grappling with how to address unmet or undermet needs among specific population groups in your community or organization?
Have you considered the possibility of integrating behavioral health apps or new technologies into services?
Do you feel stuck by how to choose the right technology, or how to implement successfully?
The increasing demand for behavioral health services, coupled with challenges in the workforce, creates a compelling reason to take a closer look at forward-thinking solutions. Behavioral health apps and other technologies have the potential to supplement existing services by increasing access and engagement among specific communities or population groups.
This quarterly CBHL Leadership Community series is designed for any CBHL member interested in the successful integration of behavioral health apps and technology as a complement to existing practices. You are encouraged to register and join the full series.
Guest Subject Matter Expert:
Tim Andrews, Founding President and Chief Commercial Officer, ORCHA
Tim is an innovative entrepreneur with an extensive background in technology and outsourcing in both the public and private sectors. Tim has focussed on the health and social care environment for the past 10 years and co-founded ORCHA based on his passionate belief in the opportunity that Digital Health offered this exciting but challenging landscape.
A lawyer by background, Tim specialised in technology and commercial law and became an expert in the emerging dot.com and ecommerce environment. He moved from private practice and took on a number of General Counsel and Commercial Director roles in technology and outsourcing businesses, developing some of the most ground breaking and sophisticated contracts in both the public and private spheres during that time.
Tim moved into Healthcare in the commissioning space, initially supporting many NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups and fledgling NHS Commissioning Support Units (CSU’s) before taking on the role of Managing Director of a CSU for a period. He co-founded ORCHA and has been responsible for all aspects of the various ORCHA assessments since its inception.
Tim has supported the development and delivery of Digital Health assessment and accreditation models and approaches for a wide array of pan-national, national and regional bodies and is a recognised authority on these approaches. He also has pioneered much of ORCHA’s work in the UK and internationally that is focused on driving the wider adoption and use of digital health technologies amongst health and care bodies.
About ORCHA: The Organisation for the Review of Health and Care Apps (ORCHA) is the world’s leading digital health quality management and distribution platform, featuring the core infrastructure needed to deliver digital health safely in healthcare services at scale.
As passionate advocates for digital health, we recognise that it underpins the future of a more patient-centred and sustainable healthcare service. It enables self-managed care that is personalised, convenient, empowering for the user, and available 24/7.
Our ‘assurance solutions’ underpin most of the major digital health assessment schemes globally. Our ‘activation solutions’ support hundreds of health and care providers and thousands of health and care professionals in the UK and globally to truly unlock the power of digital health.
Background:
Significant interest in our November 2023 webinar, Revolutionizing Behavioral Health: The Role of Behavioral Health Apps in Addressing the Workforce Crisis, sparked a follow up roundtable dialogue where CBHL members delved into the potential of behavioral health apps as a transformative technology supporting both mental and physical wellbeing. Participants explored challenges faced by organizations in determining how to select the right technology, considerations for how to implement as a complement to existing services, and additional support members might need to feel more informed and better equipped to successfully integrate behavioral health apps and technology into existing practices.
What is a CBHL Leadership Community?
CBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders, organizations, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.
What is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community?
CBHL leadership communities are created based on member interest with a focus on a specific topic or leadership population. They are recurring over a specific period of time and open to all CBHL members.
- To improve knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration, the exchange of ideas, and professional dialogue.
- To facilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual, organizational, and community outcomes.
- Encourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest.
Leadership Community Hosts
Dr. Gastfriend is an addiction psychiatrist. At Harvard Medical School, he directed addiction research at Massachusetts General Hospital and was an investigator in the NIDA Cocaine Collaborative Study, NIAAA’s COMBINE Study and NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network. As Vice President at Alkermes, Inc., he directed scientific publications on Vivitrol in clinical, criminal justice and health economics research.
His research led most states to endorse the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria. His 150 scientific publications include the books The ASAM Criteria and Addiction Treatment Matching. His ASAM CONTINUUM – The ASAM Criteria Decision Engine ® and ASAM’s CO-Triage ® tools are being adopted nationwide.
In 2016, he co-founded DynamiCare Health, a nationally-scalable technology for Contingency Management and predictive analytics, winning awards from Harvard
Business School, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Governor of Ohio, and the New York Times. He has consulted to governments in Belgium, China, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Russia and the U.S.
Garrett E. Moran, Ph.D., serves as the the Principal Investigator for the Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care, a program sponsored by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and served as Project Director of the Academy from 2010 until 2018. He is deeply committed to advancing holistic, person-centered health care. Dr. Moran retired in 2021 from his role as the Associate Director of Services and Policy Innovation in the Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, and Professor in the School of Public Health and the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University (WVU). Before coming to WVU he was a Vice President and Associate Director at Westat where he worked for 29 years.
Dr. Moran has more than 50 years of experience in public policy, program evaluation, research, and management. His career has included key leadership roles on projects for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), as well as consulting roles with states working on health reform and care integration. His major areas of substantive expertise include integrated healthcare delivery, health care financing, health information technology, and program evaluation. Dr. Moran directed the consultant support and writing contract for the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in the early 2000s, and subsequently served as an Advisor and Consultant to the States of Maryland and Ohio as they developed mental health transformation plans.
