From the Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network Newsletter, March 2025 In a recent study published in Implementation Science, researchers from JCOIN’s Coordination and Translation Center (CTC) examined strategies to provide more effective technical assistance models …
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Updates to Requirements for Buprenorphine Prescribing
In January 2023, SAMHSA announced that clinicians no longer need a federal waiver to prescribe buprenorphine for treating opioid use disorder. However, clinicians are still required to register with the Drug Enforcement Agency to prescribe …
New Research Publications Highlight NIATx Versatility
Recent projects have used the NIATx approach to explore coaching, how patients use mobile health apps, and how to recruit prescribers for medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). Coaching as an implementation strategy What makes …
Using the Cascade of Care to Increase Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in CJ Settings
The opioid epidemic has had a disproportionate impact on the nation’s criminal justice (CJ) population. Justice-involved individuals with opioid use disorders (OUD) desperately need evidence-based translational practices to implement medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), …
NIATx project explores reducing no-shows in dental settings
The NIATx Dental Pilot study tested using the NIATx model for organizational change to reduce appointment no-shows in dental care settings. The NIATx model was applied through a multisite learning collaborative that engaged participating organizations …
NIATx Project Improves Transitions from OUD Withdrawal to Continuing Care
The LINK system integrates three evidence-based implementation science approaches: (a) practice bundle, (b) process checklist, and (c) standardized organizational change model (NIATx). This integrated implementation approach improved withdrawal management to continuing care transition rates from …
New study will test use of NIATx to increase MOUD in criminal justice settings
Expanding use of medications for opioid use disorder, MOUD, particularly in criminal justice settings (CJS) remains a persistent challenge for many reasons, including stigma, funding for MOUD, availability treatment providers, leadership support, and the historical …
Healing from home: UW-Madison engineers support telehealth providers
Before mental health or addiction treatment providers launch telehealth services, researchers in the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can offer training and preparation guided by detailed, proven healthcare systems engineering …
New endowed ISyE chair honors health systems engineering pioneer
Gustafson’s thoughtful, dutiful approach to his research helped him demonstrate the relevancy of industrial engineering solutions to healthcare challenges back in the 1960s—and then play a major role in establishing UW-Madison as an international leader …
Pandemic shapes future of mental health, addiction therapy, from a distance
While the pandemic forced providers to close their offices in spring 2020 and quickly replace in-person appointments with video and telephone sessions, those telehealth services now appear set to play a major role in treatments …