October 2022
During the 4th quarter (October to December) of 2022, there are two major health information technology (HIT) requirement changes, with potential for significant implications to health centers. Read this FAQ to find out how your health center can respond.
Tools for Health Centers to Comply with Rules Prohibiting Information Blocking
Sample Information Blocking policies, procedures, and templates for health centers.
Privacy and Data Sharing Considerations | HITEQ Learning Collaborative
Are you capturing information like immigration or refugee status, intimate partner violence, human trafficking, risk of acquiring HIV through sexual contact or substance use disorder, or other information that brings up questions about how to document or code while respecting the patient’s privacy?
This health center learning collaborative series will present health center case examples that explore the privacy and data sharing considerations of EHR documentation of sensitive...
Immigration Case Example | Privacy and Data Sharing Considerations | HITEQ Learning Collaborative
Are you capturing information like immigration or refugee status, intimate partner violence, human trafficking, risk of acquiring HIV through sexual contact or substance use disorder, or other information that brings up questions about how to document or code while respecting the patient’s privacy?
This health center learning collaborative series presented health center case examples that explore the privacy and data sharing considerations of EHR documentation of sensitive...
Privacy and Data Sharing Considerations | HITEQ Learning Collaborative
Are you capturing information like immigration or refugee status, intimate partner violence, human trafficking, risk of acquiring HIV through sexual contact or substance use disorder, or other information that brings up questions about how to document or code while respecting the patient’s privacy?
This health center learning collaborative series presented health center case examples that explored the privacy and data sharing considerations of EHR documentation of sensitive...
Intimate Partner Violence Case Example | Privacy and Data Sharing Considerations | HITEQ Learning Collaborative
Are you capturing information like immigration or refugee status, intimate partner violence, human trafficking, risk of acquiring HIV through sexual contact or substance use disorder, or other information that brings up questions about how to document or code while respecting the patient’s privacy?
This health center learning collaborative series presented health center case examples that explored the privacy and data sharing considerations of EHR documentation of sensitive...
Roundup of Final Privacy and Data Sharing Considerations and Takeaways | HITEQ Learning Collaborative
Are you capturing information like immigration or refugee status, intimate partner violence, human trafficking, risk of acquiring HIV through sexual contact or substance use disorder, or other information that brings up questions about how to document or code while respecting the patient’s privacy?
This health center learning collaborative series presented health center case examples that explored the privacy and data sharing considerations of EHR documentation of sensitive...
Published August 2021
As medical care facilities seek to support patient safety and be responsive to their complete medical needs and histories, health centers also recognize that establishing an infrastructure for data sharing must be a top priority. Better practices for Health Information Exchange (HIE) increase patient wellbeing by giving providers more complete information for clinical decision making, eliminating unnecessary procedures and tests, reducing the burden of paperwork, and lowering costs. In 2020,...
A HITEQ Center Training Badge
In March 2019, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a Proposed Rule, 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program. ONC released a final rule in March 2020, published in the Federal Register on May 1, 2020. The Final Rule on Information Blocking prohibits actors from blocking the exchange of electronic health information and seeks to increase the ease and choices available...
HITEQ Highlights Webinar
Join the HITEQ Center to discuss approaches to balance patient confidentiality, sensitive situations, vulnerable populations, and meeting the provisions in CURES act and information blocking. How should health centers best prepare themselves and their staff to meet the information blocking provisions and better serve our patient population?