Addressing Childhood Obesity in Health Centers
Addressing Childhood Obesity in Health Centers
Promising Practices and Lessons Learned: January 2019
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The HITEQ Center interviewed ten health centers and health center partners to identify solutions and promising practices for addressing childhood obesity across the health center program. The focus included how health centers are meeting the Uniform Data System (UDS) measure and how they are taking further steps to identify and intervene with those at risk of obesity leveraging health information technology, electronic health records, and the data they have. Seven key areas are identified in the resulting issue brief.
Integrating Internal and External Data into a Health Center’s Primary Care Services
A profile of health center experiences, developed with Chiron Strategy Group
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This brief discusses the importance of integrated data, and provides examples of how other health centers have integrated and utilized oral health, colon cancer screening data, and other data within primary care.
HRSA Webinar
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HRSA received $125 million in supplemental funding for the Health Center Program to recognize health centers across the U.S. and the territories for their advances in quality improvement. The goal...
NCQA's Patient Centered Medical Home 2017
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This Excel-based PCMH self-assessment is intended to help health centers gauge their readiness for meeting the NCQA 2017 PCMH Requirements and plan for how to meet them.
Curated Expert Guidance, Tools, and Resources
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According to 2016 UDS data, an estimated 14.3% of Federally Qualified Health Center patients nationwide have diabetes. Of these 2 million plus patients living with diabetes, approximately 32% have...
Including slides, Data Dictionary, and Quality Report Inventory
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The third of a three-part EHR Optimization series focused on establishing goals and expectations for optimizing EHR utilization and sharing proven strategy/tools for optimizing EHR utilization,...
Including slides, Workflow tool, and Provider Scorecard
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The second of a three-part EHR Optimization series focused on establishing goals and expectations for optimizing EHR utilization and sharing proven strategy/tools for optimizing EHR utilization,...
Including Performance Measure Crosswalk and Data Definition Worksheet
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The first of a three-part EHR Optimization series focused on establishing goals and expectations for optimizing EHR utilization and sharing proven strategy/tools for optimizing EHR utilization,...
HealthNet’s successful use of Health IT to move metrics is highlighted in case studies focused on the value of leveraging IT to standardize care and improve patient outcomes. With the assistance of electronic health records and a variety of IT interventions, HealthNet has reduced low birth...
View the HIMSS 2016 Davies Community Health Award case studies by Mountain Park Health Center about the improvements they made.
This worksheet is a key component of the Guide to Improving Care Processes and Outcomes in Health Centers, developed by TMIT Consulting, LLC and the HITEQ Center.
A helpful QI adage is that “systems are perfectly designed to produce the results they deliver.” This truism...
It is sometimes difficult to know what target metric to focus on when beginning a quality improvement project. A prioritization matrix is a management tool that uses a simple framework to compare multiple options side-by-side using standard criteria. This version includes four criteria and...