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The Quadruple Aim
Quadruple Aim

A Conceptual Framework

Improving the U.S. health care system requires four aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, reducing per capita costs and improving care team well-being. HITEQ Center resources seek to provide content and direction aligned with the goals of the Quadruple Aim

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Social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, SnapChat, and the next greatest thing to come, provide great opportunities for Health Centers to better connect with their clients and help them better navigate their health system. Unfortunately, this means that Health Center leadership, staff and IT support also need to keep up with best practices, privacy and security mitigation, and general abilities in leveraging social media and their social network.

The following resources provide articles, guidelines, and helpful use cases to better support health centers in managing social media efforts.

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HITEQ Health App Decision Tree
HITEQ & The Children's Health Fund
/ Categories: Electronic Patient Engagement, Mobile Health

HITEQ Health App Decision Tree

A tool developed In collaboration with the Children's Health Fund to help choose appropriate Health Apps

There are thousands of consumer health applications (health apps), which run on smartphones, watches, tablets, and other mobile devices. These health apps are available for download for general consumers, patients, and healthcare professionals. Currently, there is no governmental agency that provides certification or guidance on health apps, although there are several projects from organizations such as HL7, the FDA, ONC, and OCR that are working to provide guidance. User discrepancy in terms of the validity and safety of the health apps they choose to use are primarily based on ratings or recommendations. This guide seeks to provide a health app decision tree that can assist medical professionals and consumers in making wise choices when using health apps.

The Children's Health Fund was made aware of a use case in which a health app that was targeted for use by adults was used for a child and consequently caused a detrimental health issue. Currently there are no certifying bodies for consumer-oriented health apps and consequently many doctors must navigate this domain themselves. This guide seeks to provide a health app decision tree that can assist medical professionals and consumers in making wise choices when using health apps.

Download the decision tree below.

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Tags: patient engagementePHIsocial mediapatient navigationelectronic patient engagementsecure messagingonline reputationweb presenceonline reviewshealth app
Intended Audiencephysicians, pediatricians, healthcare providers, consumers, parents, patients

Documents to download

  • Health App Decision Tree(.pdf, 452.51 KB) - 935 download(s)

    Download this tool to use for provider/ patient conversations to select appropriate health apps or to assess those currently in use.

Resource Links

  • A link to the Childrens Health Fund website.For over 25 years, Children’s Health Fund has been battling barriers to health care for homeless and other low-income children. Out of that fight has come innovative solutions.

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Acknowledgements

This resource collection was cultivated and developed by the HITEQ team with valuable suggestions and contributions from HITEQ Project collaborators.

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