HIV testing is one of the many ways we can End the HIV Epidemic. HITEQ's latest blogs offers strategies for leveraging your EHR to make HIV screening a breeze at your health center. 

In the 2022 UDS, United States health centers reported 7,328,565 of their 16,835,841 eligible medical patients (43.53%) were tested for HIV at least once after their 15th birthday and before their 66th birthday.

The goal of this guide is to provide up-to-date information and best practices for coding, billing, and denial resolution for PrEP and PEP services. Health department staff are encouraged to share this resource with grantees, community partners, and other health care providers billing for HIV prevention services.

These interactive infographics include HIV Indicators as well as information about underserved populations and patients who may be at increased risk of acquiring HIV, at the state level. Select your state in the upper right to get started. 

According to the Rural health Information Hub, the risk of contracting HIV can be greatly reduced through Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), but the medication must be taken every day and patients need follow-up appointments every 3 months. Some patients often don't have access to it due to stigma, distance from the nearest specialist, and a shortage of primary care providers willing to prescribe and monitor PrEP.

This brief presents an overview of how health centers can utilize telehealth for PrEP access, or TelePrEP, for comprehensive care, and includes innovations and resources that health centers can utilize to extend these services to their patient populations.

Identifying candidates for PrEP can be challenging but not impossible. The first step to finding the right candidates involves understanding the criteria for PrEP. Not everyone is a great candidate for PrEP or can adhere to the frequent testing and monitoring required of PrEP patients. Some patients are comfortable using condoms and other HIV prevention methods, and providers should respect and affirm their decision.

Join the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center for a unique multi-site convening designed to showcase and document best practices in telehealth across the Appalachian region. This full-day event will bring together professionals, policymakers, and program leaders committed to improving rural health through innovative telehealth solutions.

In this session, attendees learned from the HITEQ Center and Housing Works about the TelePrEP model. It also showcased the successes and challenges Housing Works faced with regards to their TelePrEP program.

In the 2019-2020 contract year, as part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative HITEQ conducted an environmental scan to determine the role of EHRs and health IT in health center capacity and ability to expand HIV screening and prevention. The full report is available for download. 

Establish a solid foundation for your health center's AI journey by learning how to assess your current state and build an organizational framework for AI adoption. This session provided a practical roadmap for creating a strategy that ensures your AI decisions are mission-aligned, and we heard how this is being put into action by health centers in Maine.

Join the HITEQ Center for a webinar on how to develop a social media strategy to improve your health center’s HIV prevention and care outreach. Using the POST (People, Objectives, Strategy, Technology) method, attendees learned how to use social media more efficiently to reach your target audiences. We also reviewed social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, their uses and differences. Attendees received recommendations for social media management and graphic design tools at the end of the discussion. 

Please join Dr. Irene Stafford, OB/GYN from the University of Texas Houston Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center in a presentation focused on using common place EHR technology to increase STI and HIV testing. In her talk, Dr. Stafford described recent research demonstrating a decrease in transmission of congenital syphilis by the implementation of routine EHR strategies for best practice alerts. Her work demonstrates thoughtful ways of how the EHR can serve as an educational tool for providers, how information technology can inform practice patterns and improve health outcomes, and describe how best practice alerts can assist in reportable disease management.

Is your health center currently in the process of implementing or revamping your pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) workflow? This HITEQ webinar taught participants how to use our PrEP Process Mapping Toolkit, which is designed to support team-based learning, reflection, and action on the use of process mapping as a tool to document PrEP clinical and EHR workflows. Your health center team can follow the steps outlined in the toolkit to develop a process map of an existing or planned PrEP service workflow and to identify opportunities to streamline and improve that workflow.

Join us for a panel discussion to uncover what AI is truly capable of today across clinical, administrative, and financial domains, and where it has limitations. Hear how health centers are evaluating new technologies in this quickly evolving landscape.

This foundational webinar explores how to create a strong connection between your technology and your organizational goals to maximize resources and enhance patient engagement. Join subject matter experts to discuss why this alignment is crucial and what practical steps you can take to succeed.

The quality of your documentation today directly impacts your readiness for the technologies of tomorrow. This training will focus on how to leverage health IT tools to increase documentation integrity, building a strong foundation for future innovations like interoperability, AI, and predictive analytics.

This training will share lessons learned and promising practices for embedding health-related needs screening into your EHR and clinical workflows. Join us to learn how to effectively capture this critical information and how to act on it to provide more comprehensive, whole-person care.

Join your peers for a deep dive into the practical and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence in this four session learning collaborative. Through expert-led sessions and peer-to-peer discussion, we will explore key operational areas, from procurement and clinical documentation to patient-facing applications and revenue cycle operations.

Join your peers for a deep dive into the practical and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence in this four session learning collaborative. Through expert-led sessions and peer-to-peer discussion, we will explore key operational areas, from procurement and clinical documentation to patient-facing applications and revenue cycle operations.

Join your peers for a deep dive into the practical and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence in this four session learning collaborative. Through expert-led sessions and peer-to-peer discussion, we will explore key operational areas, from procurement and clinical documentation to patient-facing applications and revenue cycle operations.

Join your peers for a deep dive into the practical and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence in this four session learning collaborative. Through expert-led sessions and peer-to-peer discussion, we will explore key operational areas, from procurement and clinical documentation to patient-facing applications and revenue cycle operations.

This session unpacks the new realities health centers face in selecting, using, and overseeing AI tools across operations, and offers practical strategies for moving forward without compromising compliance, care, or credibility. Join us to explore how health centers can be smart, safe, and strategic in a high-speed AI landscape.

Primary care plays a key role in ending the HIV epidemic. The Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative launched across HHS in 2019, setting forth four key strategies also called the “four pillars” of ending the HIV epidemic. Primary care in federally qualified health centers figures centrally into these efforts, evidenced by the addition of several HIV screening and prevention measures and metrics in the Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting. This webinar reviewed the outcomes of the first year of HIV Screening and Prevention reporting on the UDS, highlight opportunities for quality improvement, and discussed funding opportunities.