Behavioral Health Integrator

This session will move beyond the basics, exploring how to fully leverage eCW and Azara for advanced population health management and how to effectively communicate these advancements across the entire health center.

This session will delve into the practical application of both eCW and Azara, focusing on how they are currently integrated and used, their distinct considerations, and how successful setup and integration contribute to their effectiveness.

Community health centers can use the Excel-based Health IT Financial Forecasting Tool to plan, implement, and maintain health IT systems. This tool assists in documenting costs, funding, and potential revenue for new systems, upgrades, or understanding current cost structures, especially for safety net populations.

Health centers are increasingly interested in embedding oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) programs into primary care, which calls for the embedding of PrEP care processes into electronic health record (EHR) systems. Health centers have had success with automation in HIV testing, and are looking to apply automated algorithms, order sets, and templates to the development of PrEP programs. This resource outlines EHR and health information technology (IT) configurations and tools that support PrEP care processes and provides examples of successful implementation from health centers and primary care settings.

The Integration Framework, developed by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provides guidance to health care systems, states, and health information technology (IT) vendors to support successful project execution, management and communications for Health IT integrations. This Framework is based on the project’s learnings from Prescription Drug Monitoring Program-Electronic Health Record (PDMP-EHR) Integration and electronic Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Implementation. The intended audience for this Framework includes health care systems preparing to integrate their EHR with the state PDMP, as well as PDMP administrators interested in providing PDMP-EHR integrations to health care systems in their state. The learnings from this project may also be useful to organizations undertaking other Health IT integrations. This Framework is supplemented by the PDMP-EHR Integration Toolkit that provides detailed guidance and templates for specific phases of integration.