TelePrEP
TelePrEP
Using telehealth to expand access to PrEP
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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.
Assessing Provider Satisfaction
And how to design health IT interventions to improve satisfaction and reduce burden, January 2020
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Provider satisfaction is of critical importance for health centers to promote safety and workforce stability. A 2013 survey found that dissatisfied physicians were 2-3 times more likely to leave medical practice than their more satisfied colleagues. This may be unsurprising given that another recent study found that physicians spend almost half of their day on the EHR and desk work. Even...
From ONC's HealthIT.gov, highlighting Data Segmentation for Privacy and Consent2Share
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Privacy and confidentiality concerns are currently limiting the inclusion of behavioral health data in electronic health information exchange efforts. ONC has provided a number of tools and...
The 405(d) Post Volume 3 from HICP
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The January 2019 issue of The 405(d) Post from HHS includes a feature article from their Task Group Members discussing the importance of cybersecurity for small practices. Take a look to...
Developed by NASTAD, updated in 2018
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As part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) cooperative agreement, NASTAD released a Billing Coding Guide for HIV Prevention: PrEP,...
For PCAs and HCCNs to Assess Health IT across Multiple Health Centers; Updated in 2019
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HITEQ created this template to assist HCCNs, PCAs, or other organizations in conducting health IT assessments of multiple health centers.
Tools for Decreasing Documentation Burden in the EHR; Developed October 2019
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As administrative responsibilities increase, clinical documentation is often the first task to end up suffering. The EHR has created additional administrative burdens on providers such as the need...
Summary of Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act, from Center for Connected Health Policy
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The Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2019 is intended to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand access to...
Health centers are actively expanding the substance use treatment services they offer in the community to address access to care for opioid use disorders, and more broadly to address better screening, referral and timely access to all substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. The...
The AHRQ QuestionBuilder app helps patients and caregivers prepare for medical appointments and maximize visit time, allowing them to capture questions, photos of needed information such as pill bottles and insurance cards, and even skin conditions.
These graphs and tables use health center reported UDS data from 2014 through 2018 to identify the 10 EHRs most frequently used among health center programs, and shows the change between years.
This Excel-based tool is designed to support validation of EHR reporting for the Adult BMI clinical measure by comparing results from EHR to results from chart reviews or examination of underlying data. This assists in identifying specific data elements that are not being captured appropriately,...