This article provides an overview of a patient portal implementation conducted by Patients First within east central Missouri counties. The NextMD patient portal was rolled out in August 2010 and serves three core functions:  1) Providing patients with an electronic clinical summary, 2) Providing timely access to lab results, and 3) Providing secure messaging with clinical and office staff.

This report from the Connonwealth Fund provides researchers and organizations with methods for evaluating effectiveness, safety, quality, and opportunities to better engage patients in self-management of their health.

The domain of patient engagement within mobile health was defined as "the ability for apps to enable collaboration, activation and participation, information-sharing, and decision-making in one’s own health."

All Health Center grantees and Look-Alikes, regardless of the population-based funding, are required to report all patients who were served at a health center that is located or immediately accessible to a public housing site. 

The Center for Care Innovations (CCI) developed this tool to address a potential gap around defining and assessing analytics capability in health centers, as well as to provide education on some of the complexity and nuance of working with data and building a data-driven culture.

Launching quality work at first can feel like a daunting task – even more so if you do not have the support of leadership in your organization.  Some individuals have successfully launched quality work by following the mantra: “What can I get done by next Tuesday?”  This mantra helps them sidestep inertia, extensive collaboration, and time consuming benchmarking research. Instead, by identifying small steps they can take to improve quality on their own, within the context of their existing job, they can start on the journey quickly. Furthermore, success in these small steps can help with Leadership Buy-In for the importance of Quality work.