Web-based MAT Treatment Support: An Innovative Tool for HCH Providers

Thursday, June 22, 2017: 1:00 PM
Tiber Creek AB (Grand Hyatt Washington)
Wayne Centrone, NMD, MPH (Senior Health Advisor, Center for Social Innovation)
Steven Samra, MPA (Deputy Director, SAMHSA BRSS TACS, Center for Social Innovation)
The United States is experiencing a public health epidemic of record proportions. The opioid epidemic is impacting people at all levels of society. This is particularly true for people living in the experience homelessness. Under funding from SAMHSA, subject matter experts, researchers, clinicians and people in recovery developed an innovative web based tool to help change the conversation about opioid use disorder and medication assisted treatment. The presentation will review how HCH providers and clinicians can use a web based shared decision making tool to better support people experiencing homelessness with opioid use disorder into evidence based treatment.