This webinar discussed issues rural Americans face in accessing HIV care and the opportunities that telemedicine provides to extend services in a way that addresses barriers to care that are unique to this population. It also presented opportunities to leverage existing infrastructures to support the extension of services and how to assess the costs and benefits of utilizing telehealth in place of traditional service delivery models.

During this 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.

The Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2019 is intended to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand access to telehealth services, and for other purposes.  The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a comprehensive analysis of the bill, linked within.

This discussion allowed Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) providers that use Epic to share challenges and solutions related to RWHAP data management.

Visit the TargetHIV website for Epic User Group call summary notes and resource links.

This discussion allowed Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) providers that use Athena to share challenges and solutions related to RWHAP data management. Visit the TargetHIV website for Athena User Group call summary notes and resource links.