Resource Overview

The process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate for a Quality and/or Health IT job in your health center is time-intensive and challenging. Having job vacancies or recruiting the wrong person can cost the organization in terms of real money, time spent, morale, and productivity. Successful hiring requires refining the recruitment process, which includes analyzing the requirements of a job, attracting employees to that job, screening and selecting applicants, and hiring the new employee to the organization.

This section includes resources to help you define and refine your recruiting methods. These are tools that have been tested by health centers in the field and are proven to work. These resources reflect the combined experience of several successful health centers around the country.

Also available are templates for Health IT Job Functions and samples of Health IT Job Descriptions.

Health IT Staff Recruitment Tools

The HITEQ Center Podcast The HITEQ Center Podcast HITEQ is highlighting stories of leveraging the EHR, health IT, digital health tools, and other virtual care supports for health center recovery and stabilization during the COVID-19 pandemic and thereafter in this series of podcasts. We are lifting up stories that demonstrate the promise of digital and health IT tools to address the timely needs of health centers and their patients, emphasizing those that support high value, equitable care for all health center patients and that reduce provider burden.	FHIR: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources FHIR: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources This video provides an introduction to FHIR for health centers preparing for UDS+.
[Video] FQHC Value Based Payment Basics [Video] FQHC Value Based Payment Basics In this 25 minute video we cover the basic mechanics of how FQHCs are paid, the prospective payment system, and how it is evolving over time. We also review the spectrum of value-based payment arrangements using the HCP-LAN framework as a guide. We also discuss the capacity needed to be successful in each of those payment categories. Patient attribution process, including why that data is so critical in value-based payment arrangements, and what questions to ask payer partners about attribution processes are also reviewed. Lastly, a real value-based payment arrangement and related considerations are reviewed.	How People, Process, and Technology Factor Into Social Needs Screening How People, Process, and Technology Factor Into Social Needs Screening In this video, viewers will learn how People, Process and Technology should factor into a health center's social needs screening workflow
Sample Information Blocking policies, procedures, and templates Sample Information Blocking policies, procedures, and templates Sample Information Blocking policies, procedures, and templates for health centers.	Diabetes Health Center Data Validation Tool Diabetes Health Center Data Validation Tool Excel-based Data Validation Tool for health centers to validate their 2021 UDS clinical quality measure reporting of Diabetes Control (HbA1C > 9%) measure on Table 7. Video and written instructions are provided.
Accessing and Reading Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) for UDS Accessing and Reading Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) for UDS This video is to assist health centers and health center program stakeholders access and read the eCQM specifications in order to support clinical quality measure reporting on the Uniform Data System (UDS).	SDOH Data Dashboards Module 4: SDOH Dashboard Design - Advanced SDOH Data Dashboards Module 4: SDOH Dashboard Design - Advanced The Social Determinants of Health Data Dashboards training is a four-module series. Modules range from about 8 minutes to 12 minutes in length. Module four provides advanced-level information on using social determinants of health data and dashboards for facilitating and tracking social needs referrals, conducting predictive analysis with social determinants of health and health outcomes data, and using social determinants of health data to improve reimbursement for addressing social needs.
SDOH Data Dashboards Module 3: SDOH Dashboard Design - Intermediate SDOH Data Dashboards Module 3: SDOH Dashboard Design - Intermediate The Social Determinants of Health Data Dashboards training is a four module series. Modules range from about 8 minutes to 12 minutes in length. Module three provides intermediate level information on collecting social determinants of health data and using data visualization for effective dashboards with stratification of data.	SDOH Data Dashboards Module 2: SDOH Dashboard Design - Beginner SDOH Data Dashboards Module 2: SDOH Dashboard Design - Beginner The Social Determinants of Health Data Dashboards training is a four module series. Modules range from about 8 minutes to 12 minutes in length. Module two provides beginner level information on collecting social determinants of health data and basic analyses of the data.
SDOH Data Dashboards Module 1: Introduction to SDOH Dashboard Design SDOH Data Dashboards Module 1: Introduction to SDOH Dashboard Design The Social Determinants of Health Data Dashboards training is a four module series. Modules range from about 8 minutes to 12 minutes in length. Module one provides an introduction to the role of screening and collecting data on social determinants of health, identifying social determinants of health measures and using data effectively, and assessing organizational data dashboard capability. Subsequent modules provide beginner, intermediate and advanced level considerations and examples for social determinants of health data dashboards.	Getting Started with HITEQ Dashboards for Clinical Quality Measure Comparison Getting Started with HITEQ Dashboards for Clinical Quality Measure Comparison An instructional video for accessing the UDS Clinical Dashboard.

Acknowledgements

This resource collection was compiled by the HITEQ staff with portions contributed by Chris Espersen, HITEQ Advisory Committee member and Independent Contractor and Past President of Midwest Clinicians Network; Shane McBride, Independent Contractor and Past Vice President of Quality and Clinical Systems at South End Community Health Center; Chris Grasso, Associate Director for Informatics & Data Services- The Fenway Institute; and Ed Phippen, Principal - Phippen Consulting, LLC.

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Sample Information Blocking policies, procedures, and templates

Diabetes Health Center Data Validation Tool

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