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 will feature a conversation with CHWs, sharing their challenges and successes in becoming team members in the current landscape of value based care. Please note that registration for the two sessions is separate.

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 will explore 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.

With the rapid shift to telehealth services propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, many community health centers had to rapidly transition to a mechanism of care delivery previously unknown and unfamiliar. Within a matter of days and weeks, health centers creatively found ways to transform workflows and approaches to care delivery to continue to provide care even if the patient was physically distant. This resource highlights promising practices in virtual integrated behavioral health care identified from community health centers. 

HRSA’s Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) is pleased to offer a webinar hosted by the SAMHSA- HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions that will address strategies to leverage health information technology and technologies that support population health management and data aggregation to facilitate and sustain behavioral health interventions. Presenters will share best practices for health centers in streamlining and sustaining behavioral health workflows and maximizing their electronic health record to ensure comprehensive and accurate billing and coding.

As more health centers seek to break down siloes that can fragment patient care, collaboration with or integration of behavioral health care has been strengthened, although data integration remains difficult and privacy remains paramount. This brief discusses some of the approaches, successes, and challenges in integrating behavioral health data within primary care services.