Citation

Humensky JL, Bello I, Malinovsky I, Nossel I, Patel S, Jones G, Cabassa LJ, Radigan M, Sobeih T, Tobey C, Basaraba C, Scodes J, Smith T, Wall M, Labouliere C, Stanley B, Dixon LB. J. Clin. Transl. Sci. 2020; 4(4): 301-306.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/cts.2020.35

PMID

33244410

PMCID

PMC7681143

Abstract

Worldwide, early intervention services for young people with recent-onset psychosis have been associated with improvements in outcomes, including reductions in hospitalization, symptoms, and improvements in treatment engagement and work/school participation. States have received federal mental health block grant funding to implement team-based, multi-element, evidence-based early intervention services, now called coordinated specialty care (CSC) in the USA. New York State's CSC program, OnTrackNY, has grown into a 23-site, statewide network, serving over 1800 individuals since its 2013 inception. A state-supported intermediary organization, OnTrackCentral, has overseen the growth of OnTrackNY. OnTrackNY has been committed to quality improvement since its inception. In 2019, OnTrackNY was awarded a regional hub within the National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINET). The participation in the national EPINET initiative reframes and expands OnTrackNY's quality improvement activities. The national EPINET initiative aims to develop a learning healthcare system (LHS); OnTrackNY's participation will facilitate the development of infrastructure, including a systematic approach to facilitating stakeholder input and enhancing the data and informatics infrastructure to promote quality improvement. Additionally, this infrastructure will support practice-based research to improve care. The investment of the EPINET network to build regional and national LHSs will accelerate innovations to improve quality of care.

Language: en

Keywords

community-based participatory research; First episode psychosis; informatics; learning healthcare system; recent-onset psychosis; suicide prevention