Data Storyteller

Join the HITEQ Center for a two-part training on integrating community health workers (CHWs) as strategic team members in the age of value based care. The second session featured a conversation with CHWs, sharing their challenges and successes in becoming team members in the current landscape of value based care. 

Join the HITEQ Center for a two-part training on integrating community health workers (CHWs) as strategic team members in the age of value based care. In the first session, participants explored the role of CHWs in data-driven activities essential to value based care, including outreach and proactive care management, and how these rely on successful use of the health center’s EHR and other systems.

Please join Dr. Irene Stafford, OB/GYN from the University of Texas Houston Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center in a presentation focused on using common place EHR technology to increase STI and HIV testing. In her talk, Dr. Stafford described recent research demonstrating a decrease in transmission of congenital syphilis by the implementation of routine EHR strategies for best practice alerts. Her work demonstrates thoughtful ways of how the EHR can serve as an educational tool for providers, how information technology can inform practice patterns and improve health outcomes, and describe how best practice alerts can assist in reportable disease management.

This spreadsheet developed by the HITEQ Center provides a crosswalk of Clinical Quality Measures and their electronic specifications as defined in the 2023 update for Eligible Professionals (Clinicians). Fields include the crosswalk of measures with related information about CMS, NQF, and MIPS ID, and Telehealth Eligibility, as well as inclusion in HRSA BPHC Uniform Data System (UDS) CY2023, Million Hearts, CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) - Performance Pathway (APP) Measures, Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)/ CMS ACO Shared Savings Program, CMS Core Set (Child Core Set Medicaid / CHIP): HEDIS Specified, CMS Core Set (Adult Core Set Medicaid): HEDIS Specified, Core Quality Measures Collaborative (ACO / Primary Care). Links are included throughout.

In this session participants learned about the data privacy laws as they relate to digital health. Attendees had a better understanding about HIPAA, data privacy laws, telehealth regulations and more.