HITEQ On the Horizon: Demystifying Current and Future Clinical Quality Measure Reporting: UDS+ and the Adult Weight Screening and Follow-up Measure Roundtable
HITEQ On the Horizon: Demystifying Current and Future Clinical Quality Measure Reporting: UDS+ and the Adult Weight Screening and Follow-up Measure Roundtable
This session discussed the current UDS clinical quality measure reporting on Adult weight screening and follow-up clinical quality measures. Attendees learned about common challenges for collection as well as best practices for health centers.
Clinical Quality Measures 101: Clinical Quality Programs and Clinical Quality Measures
In this session, participants learned about describing one or more quality reporting requirements or programs. Additionally, they will learn how to access measure specifications and value sets, and be able to assess data alignment in the health center setting.
Making Meaning of UDS Data with HITEQ UDS Clinical Quality Dashboards
Health centers have the power to analyze their UDS data through the HITEQ UDS Clinical Quality Dashboards, which were recently updated with the latest UDS data to include 10 years' worth of clinical information. HITEQ hosted a webinar to learn about the multiple ways that the dashboards can present your organizations’ clinical data across years, and compare it to customized comparison groups of other health centers, to explore potential drivers of results. The HITEQ UDS Clinical Quality Dashboards have evolved and improved each year to provide new analysis options. The Dashboards present the UDS data in a flexible and readily understandable graphical format and deliver an organization-specific version of the content to each health center, HCCN, and PCA via a web interface built on Tableau. Each organization's access allows them to see the data relevant to their center while protecting the data of other organizations.
Health centers, HCCN, and PCAs joined HITEQ to see how the dashboards can provide them with data to answer many questions such as:
- As a homeless health center, how does our clinical quality compare to homeless health centers nationally?
- As a small health center, which we choose to define as those with <10,000 medical patients, does it appear that our size is a driver of our clinical results compared to other health centers?
- How have the trends in my clinical outcomes over the past 5 years compared to similar health centers in states that I consider relevant to mine?
Analysis of UDS Clinical Quality Measure Performance by Health Center Telehealth Use
A brief study of average clicinal quality rates among health centers who report using telehealth compared to those who do not, using data reported on CY2019 UDS. This analysis suggests that the average performance on each clinical quality measure is higher among those health centers who report using telehealth than those who do not use telehealth.
Colorectal Cancer Screening and Risk Assessment Workflow and Documentation Guide for Health Center NextGen Users
This Guide provides focused documentation to assist users of NextGen software to improve the process of assessing, documenting, tracking, and following up on colorectal cancer screening. The Guide gives particular attention to assessment of personal and family risk and the tracking and follow-up of screening results that are not addressed in the standard NextGen guidance documents. This work aims to improve health center compliance with HRSA Uniform Data Systems (UDS) colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) through the development and implementation of workflows that produce accurate and reliable structured data and enable proactive outreach and timely follow-up with patients due for CRCS or follow-up testing. This optimization enables health centers to harness broader evidence-based strategies to improve CRCS compliance, and ultimately, health outcomes.