CMS will highlight how eligible professionals can participate successfully in the EHR Incentive Programs in 2016 based on the criteria outlined in the October 2015 final rule. 

NACHC’s FOM/IT con­fer­ence is a gath­er­ing of over 700 health cen­ter senior lead­ers, man­agers, and staff CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs and finance, oper­a­tions and IT staff across the coun­try who are seek­ing an oppor­tu­nity to inter­act with their col­leagues, indus­try experts and pow­er­ful speak­ers to share proven tech­niques and tools; and dis­cover inno­v­a­tive strate­gies nec­es­sary to trans­form their orga­ni­za­tions.

Connected Health Summit: Engaging Consumers spotlights health technologies as part of the Internet of Things (IoT) phenomenon and the transformational impact of these connected solutions on the U.S. healthcare system. This focus provides strategic insights into consumer engagement, care accountability, service innovations, and platform design to determine successful approaches in the deployment of connected healthcare products and services.

Four Key Areas of Focus:

• Remote health monitoring for accountable care
• Consumer-centric wellness and fitness solutions
• Independent living technologies and services
• Innovative virtual/convenience care models

Connections move health forward. Make sure patient engagement isn't just a buzzword.

Join us September 2016 as industry experts from hospitals, health systems, patient advocacy groups, and health plans convene to share their experience, innovations, and best practices to enhance the patient experience.

Sessions crafted for both health plan and provider organizations allow for in depth content, enhanced networking, and thought provoking perspectives.

• Click here to download the transcript of this October 4th HITEQ Highlights webinar and click here to listen to the archived recording. 
   
• Find the Essential Worksheet discussed here, within the Guide to Improving Care Processes and Outcomes in Health Centers.

Improving care delivery is a business and mission imperative for health centers, and the HITEQ Center offers a growing collection of tools and services to support this journey. The foundation for these particular offerings is the "Guide for Improving Care Processes and Outcomes in FQHCs."  This web-based resource provides step-by-step guidance on understanding and improving workflows and information flows that drive performance on key targets such as hypertension control and colorectal cancer screening. Guide centerpieces include worksheets for documenting, analyzing, sharing and improving care processes for such targets.

Strategies and tools in the Guide have been used successfully in various quality improvement (QI) initiatives, and a HITEQ Center focus is spreading this value more quickly and widely among health centers. This introductory training session introduces health centers and their partners to the Guide's proven approaches, worksheets and other health IT-enabled QI tools. Health Centers and their partners can incorporate these approaches into their existing QI activities, or use them as a foundation for putting a solid QI foundation in place. The session empowers attendees with critical 'what to know' and 'what to do' QI information, and concludes by recommending a 'quick-win' exercise wherein attendees use a worksheet in a brief exercise with their teams to document current care processes for a high priority target, and brainstorm potential improvements. Material in the Guide and in the training session provide further details about performing a more robust care process analysis, as well as on prioritizing, implementing, evaluating and sustaining improvements surfaced during the analysis phase.