Guide to Improving Care Processes and Outcomes in FQHCs
The outline depicted in the Approach to Health IT-enabled Quality Improvement graphic provides a step-by-step approach to analyzing and enhancing care processes targeted for outcome improvement. Section III provides guidance and tools on addressing each of these steps.
Guide to Improving Care Processes and Outcomes in FQHCs
Successful health IT/QI efforts require a firm foundation of people, process, and technology elements.
Guide to Improving Care Processes and Outcomes in FQHCs
Origins and Ongoing Refinement of this Guide: The content in this resource is drawn from and builds on widely used CDS/QI tools and strategies that have evolved over the past decade. The HITEQ Center plans to continue refining this Guide based on input from users like you, so please consider sharing your feedback through the comment form.
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Health Centers are made up of many different levels of IT Security & Privacy expertise, both in terms of staff skills and organizational maturity. This resource will help guide both beginners and more advanced staff and leadership to understanding how to best manage and promote security and privacy risk management at their health center.
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The objective of this learning opportunity is to help health centers begin, and make progress along, the path of using social determinants data to address population health using HIT. This webinar will provide participants with an understanding of population health management and the social determinants of health from a HIT perspective, and their relevance for health centers. We will present real-world examples of health centers’ successful use of social determinants data...
A HITEQ Highlights Webinar
The role of the consumer/patient is experiencing a significant change within healthcare in which the point of diagnoses and care is being increasingly shifted from the classical care provider setting to a more patient-centered model of health services. This shift in perspective and responsibilities is largely being stimulated by a critical mass in personal health information technology innovation and development, including patient portals, health apps, web-enabled medical devices, and...
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This webinar discussed and demonstrated the newly developed web-accessible dashboards for the HITEQ UDS Clinical Quality Analyses which contain a variety of visual and data views of the information reported in the UDS across time and across measures, providing both individual and network organization levels of content, including comparison to other groups of health centers. The information presented is specific to the organization that is logged in and content will vary based on...
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While nearly all health centers have reported the use of electronic health records, only 38 percent are utilizing some type of telehealth technology, most notably to provide mental health services. Despite significant research that telehealth is as effective as in-person visits, there are still many barriers to its use, including the lack of consistent visit reimbursement, technology costs, broadband availability, and resistance to changes to workflow. This webinar discussed the...
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Electronic patient engagement technologies are having a significant impact on diabetes-related health outcomes and can help to increase patient to provider diabetes care plan involvement and communication. This HITEQ webinar explored use cases and strategies for effective adoption and evaluation of electronic patient engagement diabetes interventions within the health center setting.
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Health centers are interested in using social determinants data to manage and improve the health of their patient population and community, and are at different places on the population health management (PHM) and social determinants of health (SDH) adoption curve. The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) is a national effort to help health centers and other providers collect the data needed to better understand and act on...