This is a list of resources to assist health center staff in collecting, reporting and using the UDS.

For over a decade, community health centers across the country have partnered with local community colleges to pursue competitive training grants.  These grants allow them to fill critical skills gaps by providing training to their current workforce.  While colleges have been primarily focused on more traditional roles, such as nursing and medical assisting, health centers could ask colleges for help with skills gaps in health information technology and quality improvement jobs.

The following tool provides information about colleges in the United States that offer training in Health Information Technology (HIT) and Health Information Management (HIM).  These are rapidly evolving fields.  For this reason, the list should not be considered comprehensive, but a starting place for your research. 

The outline depicted in the Approach to Health IT-enabled Quality Improvement graphic provides a step-by-step approach to analyzing and enhancing care processes targeted for outcome improvement. Section III provides guidance and tools on addressing each of these steps.

Successful health IT/QI efforts require a firm foundation of people, process, and technology elements.