Wednesday, October 26 1 pm Eastern | 10 am Pacific
The Weitzman Institute and the Moses/Weitzman Health System are pleased to present the latest installment of our series of informative discussions with an exclusive panel of global experts driving the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). April Joy Damian, PhD, MSc, CHPM, PMP, Vice President and Director of the Weitzman Institute will moderate this latest discussion, "AI Fundamentals and Applications in Primary Care," on Wednesday, October 26 at 1 pm Eastern| 10 am Pacific.
This webinar will bring together industry AI leaders with an evidence-based applied perspective on using AI in primary care to:
- Understand AI history, definitions, methodology, benefits, and healthcare use cases
- Explore the most common and validated use cases in primary care
- Examine implications of AI in promoting health equity and improving healthcare access and outcomes
Recent Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) policy is bringing patients unprecedented access to their health information. Join the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in September for an event focused on patient access to health data. The day will bring together patients, providers, payers, and health IT developers to discuss how HHS policies are working in practice and how to maximize the impact of these policies. The event will also highlight educational tools and resources, such as patient-facing apps that enable the availability of patient information and make that health information easier to understand.
Come to the ONC and CMS patient access event to hear more about…
Patients’ experiences accessing their data, including the benefits and challenges they faced along this journey. How the next generation of apps are connecting across new health information sources to bring together patients’ data and preferred tools to act on that data. Clinicians who are at the forefront of helping patients access and understand their data, recognizing patient preferences and privacy concerns. Innovative developers demonstrating how they are making patients’ data actionable, and the implementation challenges they face as they connect sources across the care continuum Health care payers’ their successes and challenges with making data available to patients. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the latest developments in patient data access and how you can be a part of the path forward.
Registration details to follow soon! Until then, you can find valuable information and resources about the patient’s right to their data on our website. If you would be interested in sharing a patient experience with accessing and using patient data, please share with us at https://www.healthit.gov/feedback.
HITEQ Center, June 2023
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.
ONC & CDC Health IT tool
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.
Takeaways for primary care safety net settings including federally qualified health centers and look-alikes. June 2022.
Providers are burnt out and most expect it to get worse. Burnout is typically defined as a psychological response to job stressors characterized by emotional exhaustion, detachment, and a sense of ineffectiveness. Investigations of burnout in primary care have usually focused on factors associated with burnout among individual clinicians. But, it may be more useful to think about organizational-level burnout, which can shift the focus from individual responsibility to organizational solutions. This piece outlines organizational-level approaches to use address provider burden with health IT.
Curricula from The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Health IT Playbook
Use this curricula to learn more about the basics of health information exchange. The enclosed resources are designed to be easily understood and to support health information exchange in your practice and community.
Environmental scan for Ending the HIV Epidemic
In the 2019-2020 contract year, as part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative HITEQ conducted an environmental scan to determine the role of EHRs and health IT in health center capacity and ability to expand HIV screening and prevention. The full report is available for download.
Moving to Telehealth during Coronavirus Public Health Emergency
Health centers are having to dramatically change approaches to patient care as the COVID-19 public health emergency keeps patients at home and ramps up the demands of telehealth and other remote care modalities. This resource is a quick start guide for health centers making this change.
For PCAs and HCCNs to Assess Health IT across Multiple Health Centers; Updated in 2019
HITEQ created this template to assist HCCNs, PCAs, or other organizations in conducting health IT assessments of multiple health centers.
This webinar series will highlight the intersection between health information technology and behavioral health services and considerations. In the first webinar, a joint collaboration between the HITEQ Center and the National Council for Behavioral Health, we introduced the series and the planned topic areas to be covered as well as explore other suggested topics from the participants.