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HITEQ Highlights: Enhancing the EHR for Suicide Prevention (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is the second in a series highlighting the intersection between health information technology and behavioral health services. The webinar explored key components to be built into an electronic health record in order to better address suicide prevention in health care. Decision support considerations, documentation and communication enhancements, as well as population health management strategies were discussed. More Details...

Funded! Now What? (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication serves as a guide for the first 120 days and year of operations for health centers that received their 330-funding for the first time. The guide provides an overview of the Health Center Program Requirements and a series of checklists in nine different domains such as administration, governance, compliance, and more. More Details...

Enabling Services Case Study: A Focus on Field-Based Services: North Carolina Farmworker Health Program (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication is part of a series of case studies that highlight innovative models for providing enabling services to help reduce barriers to care and address social determinants of health. This case study features the North Carolina Farmworker Health Program (NCFHP) efforts to deploy an Outreach Team to provide a myriad of core enabling services to farmworkers in the field, at home, and in migrant camps. The case study highlights innovative models of providing outreach and care in addition to discussing key funding, policy, and market drivers. More Details...

Are You Ready?” Essential Preparation Activities to Move Your Capital Project Ahead (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session covers essential steps to prepare your project for success, including incorporating facilities goals in your strategic plan, understanding your patient base and community trends, analyzing your current operations to determine the space you need, and ensuring your center is financially sound before proceeding. We’ll also describe resources available to help you plan. More Details...

VA Mission Act Update (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is an overview of the VA MISSION Act for FQHCs presented by Dr. Kameron Matthews, Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Community Care Veterans Health Administration. More Details...

Root Cause Analysis Training 3 of 3: Prioritizing Root Causes and Creating Action Steps (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar focuses on prioritizing root causes, creating action steps, and the importance of using root cause analysis to inform quality improvement. This webinar series was developed to help health centers prepare for the diabetes performance analysis component of their operational site visit. More Details...

Root Cause Analysis Training 2 of 3: The "5 Why's and Fishbone Diagrams" (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar focuses on the "5 Why's", Fishbone Diagrams, and the importance of these tools to inform quality improvement. This webinar series was developed to help health centers prepare for the diabetes performance analysis component of their operational site visit. More Details...

Root Cause Analysis Training 1 of 3: HRSA's Expectations (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar focuses on HRSA's expectations and the importance of using root cause analysis to inform quality improvement. This webinar series was developed to help health centers prepare for the diabetes performance analysis component of their operational site visit. More Details...

Remote Scribes, Transcription, Talk-to-Type, and Virtual Assistants: Tools for Decreasing Documentation Burden in the EHR; Developed October 2019 (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have replaced obsolete paper medical charts and records, and their ability to exchange health information electronically have helped organizations provide higher quality and safer care for patients. However, despite their numerous advantages, EHRs can create an overload of documentation and clerical responsibilities for physicians, placing an increased demand on physicians’ time and compromise efficiency. Medical dictation, transcription, and scribing services have become an increasingly popular solution to address this hindrance. This resource introduces different transcription, scribing, and dictation services, and reasons why health centers should consider using them to reduce the burden of EHR documentation. More Details...

Primary Care for Underserved Populations: Navigating Policy to Incorporate Occupational Therapy Into Federally Qualified Health Centers (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Occupational therapy services have the potential to help improve the health and functioning of FQHC patients. Using a FQHC serving American Indian/Alaska Native populations as a case example, we describe how occupational therapy is well suited to help meet the needs of medically underserved populations. We then examine options for integrating occupational therapy into this unique primary care setting, discuss related administrative and policy considerations, and propose possible solutions to identified barriers. More Details...

Preparing Internal Systems for Gathering Cost Data (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The second webinar in the series will provide insight from a former health center CFO into the ways health centers can set up charts of account, practice management systems, and HR/payroll systems to facilitate an accurate understanding of cost. More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: Using Health IT to Facilitate the Development and Administration of a PrEP Program (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The HITEQ Center is launching a new webinar series for health centers to learn how their health center peers are using health IT to improve HIV prevention and care. For the first webinar, Using Health IT to Facilitate the Development and Administration of a PrEP Program, Robert Harris from the Community Health Center of Buffalo, Inc. described their whole system approach to develop an IT-supported PrEP program. Robert presented how they developed a viable and sustainable PrEP program maximizing the use of IT resources while minimizing the amount of staff resources needed to administer the program effectively. More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: Updates to the HITEQ UDS Clinical Analysis Dashboards (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: During this HITEQ Highlights webinar, learn about the updated HITEQ Center’s UDS dashboards, available on the HITEQ site for HCCNs, PCAs, and health centers, as well as a nationwide version available to all website visitors. These dashboards show UDS clinical quality measure reporting from calendar year 2018, historical data, and benchmark data from Healthy People 2020 goals. These updated dashboards include a number of new features, to allow users to compare outcomes across various groups to improve the understanding of how certain characteristics correlate with clinical quality outcomes. More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: Documentation Tips when using the Collaborative Care Model for the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join the HITEQ Center, in collaboration with the National Council for Behavioral Health, for a webinar on Documentation Tips when using the Collaborative Care Model for the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care. The webinar provided a brief overview and benefits of the collaborative care model as well as information specific to each of the main staff roles. The role-specific nuances of documentation were highlighted, including considerations for tracking data such as clinical activities accomplished with each patient during the month. More Details...

Health Center Health IT/ EHR Assessment Tool: For PCAs and HCCNs to Assess Health IT across Multiple Health Centers; Updated in 2019 (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: HITEQ created this template to assist HCCNs, PCAs, or other organizations in conducting health IT assessments of multiple health centers. The questions within this instrument were adopted from proposed UDS health IT capabilities questions and the HITEQ Center's Meaningful Use readiness assessment survey. This instrument may include some questions that are more comprehensive than some organizations need, but a secondary goal is to ease future responses to UDS and other health IT-related surveys. More Details...

Effective Partnership Guide: Improving Oral Health for MIgrant and Seasonal Head Start Children and their Families (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This collaboration between the National MIgrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs (ACF/OHS) and the Health Center Program (HRSA/BPHC) provides an overview of oral health care within Head Start programs in conjunction with health centers. It describes effective ways that MSHS can partner with health centers for dental care and outlines payment models and avenues for partnership. More Details...

Assessing Provider Satisfaction: And how to design health IT interventions to improve satisfaction and reduce burden, January 2020 (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource puts forth several options for assessing provider satisfaction or burden, with a focus on health IT. Each provider assessment also includes information about cost and access. In addition to surveying providers, there is other information that can be assessed for baseline when planning an intervention to decrease burden. These can be used for pre– and post-intervention monitoring and evaluation. Finally, related research findings, including the overall relationship between EHR and provider satisfaction, regulatory and documentation requirements, the impact of training, provider autonomy and role in EHR design, and in-basket management, are described. More Details...

Developing a Community Health Center Capital Project Plan and Budget – Part One (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: We will discuss how to estimate service area demand, workforce needs, and space requirements so you can build a realistic budget. We will also describe how to calculate your debt capacity and measure financial feasibility. More Details...

Stepping into the Cost of Care Conversation (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The current state of cost-of-care (CoC) conversations at many clinics leads to frequent misunderstandings and unmet CoC needs, which may ultimately increase the work and costs for both patients and their healthcare providers. More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: Getting Started with a Social Media Strategy for HIV Prevention and Care (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar . Description: Join the HITEQ Center for a webinar on how to develop a social media strategy to improve your health center’s HIV prevention and care outreach. Using the POST (People, Objectives, Strategy, Technology) method, attendees learned how to use social media more efficiently to reach your target audiences. We also reviewed social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, their uses and differences. Attendees received recommendations for social media management and graphic design tools at the end of the discussion. More Details...