HITEQ Center, June 2023
With nearly 100% of community health centers utilizing electronic health records (EHR) to care for patients, focus has pivoted from implementation and new workflow development to enhancement in order to drive value and reflect patient needs and population trends. EHR technology presents potential opportunities and significant constraints. Providers frequently document and share potentially sensitive information in the EHR, such as risk for intimate partner violence (IPV), consistent offers of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), or patient sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). Capturing such information can be immensely helpful in providing care tailored to individuals’ needs, but additionally challenges teams to develop workflows that keep the data private rather than risk harm to patients through improper or unintended disclosure.
Identifying opportunities for improvements in health centers
In the 2022 UDS, United States health centers reported 7,328,565 of their 16,835,841 eligible medical patients (43.53%) were tested for HIV at least once after their 15th birthday and before their 66th birthday.
Health center examples, developed June 2022
Since 2020, health centers have reported the HIV Screening clinical quality measure on the UDS. HITEQ hosted discussions with health centers in fall of 2021 to find out how they have made progress on this clinical quality measure and gleaned tips from these participants which can be found within.
HITEQ Highlights Webinar
Primary care plays a key role in ending the HIV epidemic. The Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative launched across HHS in 2019, setting forth four key strategies also called the “four pillars” of ending the HIV epidemic. Primary care in federally qualified health centers figures centrally into these efforts, evidenced by the addition of several HIV screening and prevention measures and metrics in the Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting. This webinar reviewed the outcomes of the first year of HIV Screening and Prevention reporting on the UDS, highlight opportunities for quality improvement, and discussed funding opportunities.
HIV testing is one of the many ways we can End the HIV Epidemic. HITEQ's latest blog post offers strategies for leveraging your EHR to make HIV screening a breeze at your health center.
An outline of best practices and strategies
HIV testing is one of the many ways we can End the HIV Epidemic. HITEQ's latest blogs offers strategies for leveraging your EHR to make HIV screening a breeze at your health center.
HITEQ Training Session
This training is open to all health centers, PCAs, and HCCNs. The focus will be Practice Analytics v12 and UDS 2020 reporting for Greenway Intergy Users, so right on time for those preparing for CY2020 UDS reporting from Greenway.
HITEQ Training Session
This presentation highlights Greenway Intergy functionality to support Ending the HIV Epidemic, including setting up health reminders around HIV screening and prevention, HIV flowsheets, and recommendations for optimizing the EHR for PrEP (coding for PrEP, setting up care plans, reminders for future labs, etc.).
HITEQ Highlights
This presentation was led by Dr. Tim Long, and focuses on the four pillars of Ending the HIV Epidemic and primary care HIV prevention. This webinar focuses on the clinical aspects of Ending the HIV epidemic, and use of health IT and EHR to support clinical care.
Identifying opportunities for improvements in health centers
These interactive infographics include HIV Indicators as well as information about underserved populations and patients who may be at increased risk of acquiring HIV, at the state level. Select your state in the upper right to get started.