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Telehealth Optimization Quick Guide for Health Centers (April 2021) (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This Resource Guide is intended to support health centers looking to advance telehealth or virtual services during covid-19 pandemic response and operational recovery. More Details...

July 2021 Telehealth Office Hour (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NACHC offers monthly Telehealth Office Hours for health center, PCA, and HCCN staff who have questions or want to share information about telehealth related policy and operational activities. In addition to updates and Q&A, each session will focus on a specific topic of concern. More Details...

Community Health Centers Telehealth Promising Practices: Case Studies from the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This collection of case studies highlights ten community health centers' promising practices and lessons learned in adoption or expansion of telehealth delivery in response to the covid-19 pandemic. More Details...

UDS Quick Guide for Federally Funded Health Centers: How to use UDS data to expand your understanding of SDOH (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This UDS Guide will inform health center staff on how UDS offers rich and detailed insight to inform operations at health centers. More Details...

June 2021 Telehealth Office Hour (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NACHC offers monthly Telehealth Office Hours for health center, PCA, and HCCN staff who have questions or want to share information about telehealth related policy and operational activities. In addition to updates and Q&A, each session will focus on a specific topic of concern. More Details...

Building Clinical Informatics Session 4: Evaluating Usability and Human-Centered Design for Happy Users and Better Performance (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Evaluating usability and implementing human-centered design principles can improve reimbursement, care team satisfaction, data quality, and reduce staff time spent on clinical tasks. This webinar describes how engaging vendor partners in user-centered improvements can improve the vendor-customer relationship and the care team experience. More Details...

Telehealth Office Hours:: ADA issues in Telehealth (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This presentation provides a high-level overview of accessibility considerations in telemedicine under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. We will discuss various types of services and modifications to help ensure that people with disabilities have equal access to telemedicine services. More Details...

Building Clinical Informatics Learning Community Session 3: Improving Data Exchange: COVID-19 as a Test Case for FQHC Interoperability (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The most value-added approaches to interoperability should rely on enduring machine-to-machine connections with regular testing that bring data to the point of care. This webinar discusses how filling health data gaps with external data sources can change the effectiveness of care activities and close care gaps and work with FQHC partners to demonstrate the value these connections bring. More Details...

NACHC Telehealth Office Hours: State Assistive Technology Act (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session from April 8, 2021 focuses on the State Assistive Technology (AT) Act program and the services they provide. State AT programs provide information and awareness about AT, train people how to use AT, demonstrate AT that is responsive to a person’s needs related to vaccine access, testing, physical distancing, using telemedicine, enrolling in programs, and participating in virtual health and wellness and social engagement programs. More Details...

Community Health Center Chartbook 2021 (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Community Health Center Chartbook uses graphics and charts to describe who health centers serve, how health centers meet their communities’ needs, health center growth and remaining challenges, and how health centers make an impact. More Details...

Building Clinical Informatics Learning Community Session 2: Data Validation: Building a Playbook for Data Quality (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Extracting data from EHRs and health IT systems can be challenging; unfortunately, without a coordinated Data Quality Plan to clean and validate data, a large proportion of electronic health data do not reach a minimum level of quality for most use cases. A clear plan for data extraction, mapping, analytics, and validation can help immensely to create better data quality, particularly if applied consistently across use cases and iteratively over multiple data extracts. Here we present a few strategies and tools for evaluating data quality and hear from a partner who routinely engages in data quality practices with FQHCs. More Details...

Process for Tracking Utilization of COVID-19 Therapeutics (2021). Resource Type: Document. Description: This resource discusses who should report on the use of federally purchased therapeutics, rules governing reporting, and the process of reporting. More Details...

Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care Series: The Future State: Data Integrity (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is the third webinar in a three-part series -- Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care. During these webinars, hear how HCCNs and health centers are collecting and aggregating data on patient populations and leveraging data to support clinical quality improvement initiatives. More Details...

Billing, Coding, Documentation & Quality Series, Part II: Treating Substance/Opioid Use Disorders via Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) in Community Health (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: By providing CMS-covered Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) services in the treatment of Substance/Opioid Use Disorders (SUD and OUD) your community health center’s clinical providers may be eligible for a more full range of loan repayment programs while providing desperately needed services to patients who need help with the medical and behavioral health issue related to this other public health emergency. More Details...

Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care: The Current State of HCCNs (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This is the second webinar in a three part series -- Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care. During these webinars, hear how HCCNs and health centers are collecting and aggregating data on patient populations and leveraging data to support clinical quality improvement initiatives. Medical informaticists from leading organizations such as the Duke Institute for Health Innovation and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will present. Clinicians, quality improvement and data leads, Chief Executive Officers as well as Chief Information Officers will find this series useful to their every day work. More Details...

Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care: Looking Back: The Birth of the HCCNs – the Vision for Data (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: Join NACHC for a three part series -- Past, Present, and Future: HCCNs and Health Centers Using Data to Drive Clinical Care. During these webinars, hear how HCCNs and health centers are collecting and aggregating data on patient populations and leveraging data to support clinical quality improvement initiatives. Medical informaticists from leading organizations such as the Duke Institute for Health Innovation and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will present. Clinicians, quality improvement and data leads, Chief Executive Officers as well as Chief Information Officers will find this series useful to their every day work. More Details...

Telehealth Office Hours: Telehealth Policy Updates (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: NACHC's policy team discuss federal and state level telehealth policy updates. More Details...

Coding & Documentation:: 2021 Evaluation & Management (E/M) Changes for Community Health Reporting Face-to-Face & Virtual E/M Visits (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The first in a two-part series, this webinar addresses the updated 2021 E/M guideline for office and outpatient encounters. Topics include when to use the updated definition of Medical Decision Making for coding and billing, as well as CPT/HCPS-ll codes. More Details...

Data Integration Best Practices for Health Centers & Homeless Services Publication: Health Center Focus Group Recommendations on Data Integration (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Health centers use data and technology to improve health outcomes of patients, speed administrative processes, and collect patients’ health and housing histories. This report advances strategies for large and small health centers to match data with homeless service systems to identify and coordinate care for high utilizers of crisis care systems. More Details...

Telehealth Resource Library: Curated telehealth resources for health centers (2020). Resource Type: Other. Description: HITEQ is actively compiling a telehealth resource library for health centers, which houses actionable telehealth resources in the areas of telehealth technology, patient use of telehealth, provider use of telehealth, tele-behavioral health, and operationalizing telehealth more generally. This curated set of resources aims to assist health centers in accessing those resources that directly address current telehealth needs and challenges. More Details...