During this national emergency, teledentistry has become an emerging strategy to continue providing preventive dental care and triage for dental emergencies. During this webinar, attendees learned from a subject matter expert on effective implementation strategies for teledentistry. Then, three health centers shared their experience in teledentistry during COVID-19 including their lessons learned and specific state regulations. This webinar was 1 hour and 15 minutes. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed health care delivery. Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) play a critical role in assuring that underserved populations continue to engage in their health. In response to this need for sustained and expanded access to services, PCDC and Centene Corporation hosted this free webinar on how health centers can
launch telehealth services — during and beyond the pandemic. Three brief presentations from telehealth solution vendors followed the session.

This HITEQ Center webinar explored key concepts and best practices that should be followed by Health Centers seeking to develop Defense in Depth and effectively implement hardened security programs at their sites. There are ever-increasing cybersecurity guidelines and protection measures that Health Centers must navigate and digest. This webinar sought to motivate and educate the health center workforce on critical privacy and security concepts and methods for defense. Aspects of Security Risk Assessment, security awareness training, and breach protection were covered with an emphasis on health center-wide information protection.

Join the HITEQ Center, in collaboration with the National Council for Behavioral Health, for a webinar on Electronic Patient Engagement in an Integrated Setting and learn how health centers can use their EHR to engage patients in their own care and make communication easier between the patient and members of the care team.

This webinar focused on innovative workflows in addition to professional and clinical considerations for behavioral health clinicians when implementing virtual behavioral health visits. 

The Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network, the Center for Excellence on Protected Health Information (CoE-PHI), the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers, and the Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT) at the University of Nevada - Reno (UNR) are facilitating a FREE, national online discussion and resource sharing opportunity for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers and peer support specialists faced with transitioning their services to the use of telephone and videoconferencing methods in response to COVID-19 social distancing guidelines.

The TLC Tuesdays series will provide you with an opportunity to learn more about the use of technology to support telehealth delivery.

Our TLC Tuesdays series provides you with an opportunity to learn more about the use of technology to support telehealth delivery.

Our TLC Tuesdays series will provide you with an opportunity to learn more about the use of technology to support telehealth delivery.

TLC Tuesdays series provide an opportunity to learn more about the use of technology to support telehealth delivery.

Our TLC Tuesdays series provides an opportunity to learn more about the use of technology to support telehealth delivery. 

Telehealth can be a means to address COVID-19 through patient monitoring, treating and limiting exposure to infection for vulnerable populations, and protecting health care workers. Telehealth cannot only expand the reach of services to communities that have limited access to needed services, but also provide minimize exposure for both the health worker and patients who are at high risk for infection. This allows patients to receive health services away from settings where potential for contracting COVID-19 are high, such as hospitals and waiting rooms. The National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers held  this webinar exploring further uses and benefits of telehealth during the COVID-19 outbreak.

HHS recently released the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC’s) Cures Act Final Rule that will help give patients safe, secure access to their health data, spur innovation, and address industry-wide information blocking practices. View this webinar for information on the Conditions of Certification. We also have a website dedicated to the final rule with overview information and detailed fact sheets. This website will continue to be updated on a regular basis with additional resources. 

HHS recently released the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC’s) Cures Act Final Rule that will help give patients safe, secure access to their health data, spur innovation, and address industry-wide information blocking practices. View the webinar recording below for information on information blocking. We also have a website dedicated to the final rule with overview information and detailed fact sheets. This website will continue to be updated on a regular basis with additional resources.

This webinar described the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Health Center Program and its engagement in Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE), as well as opportunity for collaboration between Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) programs and health centers to advance the goals of EHE. This webinar described where Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are located, how they are funded, and provided a case study of how they have responded to the EHE funding initiative.

Join the HITEQ Center, in collaboration with the National Council for Behavioral Health, for a webinar on Documentation Tips when using the Collaborative Care Model for the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care. The webinar provided a brief overview and benefits of the collaborative care model as well as information specific to each of the main staff roles. The role-specific nuances of documentation were highlighted, including considerations for tracking data such as clinical activities accomplished with each patient during the month.

Hear from Your Peers! The HITEQ Center is launching a new webinar series for health centers to learn how their health center peers are using health IT to improve HIV prevention and care. For the first webinar, Using Health IT to Facilitate the Development and Administration of a PrEP Program, Robert Harris from the Community Health Center of Buffalo, Inc. described their whole system approach to develop an IT-supported PrEP program.

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. 

Equipping and empowering providers with technology that provides decision support and enables better connection, insight, and overall management of their patients with substance use disorders is key to successful medications for addiction treatment (MAT) programs. Learn about the tools that are helping improve patient engagement, increase adherence to treatment plans, and reduce program dropouts.

Attendees will be able to:
• Provide an understanding of the effectiveness of technology as a tool to improve MAT patient engagement and the quality of treatment.
• Explain approaches for improving the provider experience of running an MAT program.
• Identify the key elements that make outcome information useful as clinical and practice improvement tools.