Data Storyteller

Join us for an in-depth session on the effective adoption of an integrated patient portal. This webinar will provide valuable tools and methodologies to assist with: workflow development, training on activation and meaningful use of the portal, dissemination strategies, and harnessing EHR analytics tools to determine the return on your investment.

This practical guide features key tools and principles to help health centers (HCs) develop safe documentation for intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and exploitation (IPV/HT/E) in their electronic health records (EHRs) and other technology tools.  In 2020, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) introduced new Uniform Data System (UDS) data elements for health centers (HCs) to report on IPV and HT/E. With the evolving landscape of data use in medical settings, it is imperative that HC staff understand privacy principles and implement best practices to protect confidentiality for survivors of IPV/HT/E. This resource features guidelines on documenting IPV/HT/E in the EHR using a trauma-informed, survivor-centered approach. The guide also features tools that FUTURES has developed alongside health IT platforms, namely for eClinicalWorks and OCHIN Epic, to aid HCs in using the evidence-based CUES intervention that focuses on universal education approaches on IPV/HT/E. This guide is available as a PDF (4 pages) in English.

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.