Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration Among Behavioral Health and Primary Care Providers

March National Briefing

Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration Among Behavioral Health and Primary Care Providers

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Privacy Rule can present barriers to collaboration between behavioral health and primary care providers. However, many of those barriers are more perceived than real. This month’s National Briefing provided an in-depth look at the obstacles to sharing data between behavioral health and primary care providers. Dayna Matthew, JD, joined us to present an overview of HIPAA barriers and to debunk common misunderstandings about data-sharing under HIPAA. Ms. Matthew also discussed how providers can better support care teams through integration and information sharing. 

Dayna Matthew

Professor, University of Colorado
Professor Matthew joined the University of Colorado faculty in 2003 as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2004.  she teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, and a variety of health law classes.  Professor Matthew regularly lectures to medical and public health students, and is a member of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz Medical Campus. In 2004, she became the Law School's Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and she served as the Law School's Vice Dean from 2010-2011.  Professor Matthew's forthcoming book, "Towards Justice in American Healthcare" will be published by NYU Press next year. read more

Polly Kurtz

Executive Director, Collaborative Family Healthcare Association
Ms. Kurtz is Executive Director of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association and serves as an Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine.  Ms. Kurtz spent the first 19 years of her career in southwest Missouri with Burrell Behavioral Health and its former affiliate Cox Health Systems.   While there she held a variety of roles including Deputy Director of Outpatient Services for SMI populations, Community Education Director, and Vice President of Finance and Administration.  Ms. Kurtz most recently served as the Executive Director for the University of Northern Colorado Foundation.  read more
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