NEHI INC

Programs

1. Capacity building for patient engagement in research on the effectiveness of telehealth in sud treatment (cbfpeir):black individuals experience disproportionately adverse impacts of substance use disorder (sud) and are far less likely to receive evidence-based sud treatment. Telehealth has been one method utilized to expand mental and behavioral health treatment options, however, it is difficult to find studies that focus on the role telehealth plays in addressing sud. The network for excellence in health innovation (nehi) partnered with community catalyst and black faces black voices to lead work focused on increasing and sustaining engagement between black individuals with lived sud experience and researchers in the field to inform future patient-centered outcomes research (pcor) on telehealth solutions for sud. By establishing mutual goals for systemic change and collaborating on mutually beneficial engagement strategies, the expectation is that research on telehealth for sud treatment and recovery should better reflect the experiences of black individuals with lived experience while also increasing researchers' willingness to incorporate pcor methodologies in their research.…

   $164,322 spent$37,500 earned by the program
   20% of program spending

2. Implementing behavioral health in primary care through shared accountability (ibhpctsa:nehi launched this initiative with the goal of expanding behavioral health integration by primary care practices in massachusetts.[1] less than 40% of primary care groups have incorporated any type of behavioral health integration in their practices,[2] with far fewer adopting recognized models of integration, despite the evidence demonstrating its effectiveness and importance in redressing access issues to needed behavioral health care. Nehi convened major massachusetts stakeholders to identify collaborative efforts that would advance adoption of behavioral health integration in primary care in the commonwealth. The initiative surfaced experience-based insights about the challenges of advancing behavioral health and primary care integration (bh integration) across industry sectors. It also produced two potential solutions to these challenges. While the project participants supported the advancement behavioral health integration, they did not achieve consensus to pursue a collective pilot and test the solutions identified. Nevertheless, based on participants' exchanges in this project, informed…

   $75,291 spent$125,000 earned by the program
   9% of program spending

3. Alzheimer's disease:nehi received project sponsorships from eli lilly & company and from eisai inc. For a project that focused on the wide array of innovations emerging to screen individuals for dementia and conduct follow-up assessments of brain health. The project entailed a series of expert interviews and an expert discussion roundtable held in washington, d.c. On may 23 at the kaiser permanente center for total health . Experts consulted by Nehi Included senior executives at leading national organizations of family physicians, gerontologists, geriatricians and other clinical professionals; patient advocates; and developers of new digital devices, artificial intelligence applications and laboratory tests that aim at dementia detection. Findings from nehi's research and interviews form the basis of a final report that nehi published on september 19, 2024, detecting dementia: emerging innovations and their implications for american adults and their health care. The nehi report includes a series of recommendations for uptake of innovations that will enable efficient and affordable detection of dementia at a greater scale than commonly observed today.

   $68,437 spent$125,000 earned by the program
   8% of program spending

4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

   $516,426 spent$309,500 earned by the program
   63% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $824,476.