HITEQ Resources & Events

In October 2007, Dr. Berwick of the Institute for Health Improvement, based in Cambridge, charted a new course for providing healthcare in this country.  He proposed a conceptual framework that is designed to improve the patient’s care experience, while at the same time reduce the cost of care and attend to improved health of populations of people. Simply called the Triple Aim, it calls for a strategic focus on all three dimensions at once.  There has been no time previously that healthcare in the United States has been focused on all three domains at one time. A radical idea at first, the Triple Aim has now entered the mainstream and many healthcare organizations have adopted its tenets.

Organizations and communities that, in fact, attain the Triple Aim (or come close to it) have healthier populations to care for, have better coordinated care, and reduce the per capita cost of care.

Redwood Community Health Coalition is a network of 17 community health centers, with over 40 sites in Marin, Napa, Sonoma and Yolo Counties. Formed in 1994, our mission is to improve access to and the quality of care provided for under-served and uninsured people in our four counties. Our member health centers provide patient-centered primary care health homes to over 240,000 individuals in Marin, Napa, Sonoma and Yolo Counties. This represents more than 1 out of every 5 members of our communities.  Sixty percent of our patients have incomes below the Federal Poverty Level and close to thirty percent of our patients are uninsured.

This is an example of instructions for reports can be tailored to the systems, processes, and objectives used by your organization. These detailed instructions allow any employee to start where another employee finished and allow for efficient onboarding of new employees. 

This presentation will explore the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and its impact on health centers. We'll examine how TEFCA differs from previous interoperability efforts, the benefits it offers to providers and patients, and practical steps for participation and implementation.

A subject matter expert from UCSF will present recent research showing how rising documentation requirements can limit provider engagement with crucial external information sources, such as Health Information Exchanges (HIE) and other provider records.