The Virtual Engagement for Professionals: Center of Excellence (COE) met over six sessions to identify and promote promising practices for optimal, virtual training and technical assistance engagement. COE collaborators hosted facilitated discussions, offered peer-learning opportunities, and published training and technical assistance (T/TA) highlights and successes. The audience for this COE was PCAs, HCCNs, NTTAPs, and health centers who were interested in contributing to national T/TA efforts or engaging their own employees or peers through virtual modalities.This session addressed how to support a T/TA portfolio with technology, including success with evaluation, virtual tools to monitor TTA, and use of data for TTA.

The Virtual Engagement for Professionals: Center of Excellence (COE) met over six sessions to identify and promote promising practices for optimal, virtual training and technical assistance engagement. COE collaborators hosted facilitated discussions, offered peer-learning opportunities, and published training and technical assistance (T/TA) highlights and successes. The audience for this COE is PCAs, HCCNs, NTTAPs, and health centers who were interested in contributing to national T/TA efforts or engaging their own employees or peers through virtual modalities. This session addressed dissemination of information such as findings and publications through social media and other online channels.

The Virtual Engagement for Professionals: Center of Excellence (COE) will meet over six sessions to identify and promote promising practices for optimal, virtual training and technical assistance engagement. COE collaborators hosted facilitated discussions, offered peer-learning opportunities, and published training and technical assistance (T/TA) highlights and successes. The audience for this COE is PCAs, HCCNs, NTTAPs, and health centers who are interested in contributing to national T/TA efforts or engaging their own employees or peers through virtual modalities. This session will focused on succcessful peer learning and virtual discussion including breakout groups.

The Virtual Engagement for Professionals: Center of Excellence (COE) meets over six sessions to identify and promote promising practices for optimal, virtual training and technical assistance engagement. COE collaborators hosted facilitated discussions, offered peer-learning opportunities, and published training and technical assistance (T/TA) highlights and successes. The audience for this COE is PCAs, HCCNs, NTTAPs, and health centers who are interested in contributing to national T/TA efforts or engaging their own employees or peers through virtual modalities. This session focused on webinar engagement, including prep for webinar to encourage engagement as well as use of polls, chat, etc.

While nearly all health centers have reported the use of electronic health records, only 38 percent are utilizing some type of telehealth technology, most notably to provide mental health services. Despite significant research that telehealth is as effective as in-person visits, there are still many barriers to its use, including the lack of consistent visit reimbursement, technology costs, broadband availability, and resistance to changes to workflow.  This webinar discussed the current state of telehealth use by health centers and the barriers to implementation and use and introduced participants to the national and regional Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs).

Many health care organizations have considered instituting a Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) program, but have run into challenges in implementation of this new discipline. The National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers August 17th webinar offered insights into the value of RPM and debuted a toolkit aimed at helping organizations implement a program. The presentation started with a discussion on the value of RPM and its implementation, then moved on to an exciting new toolkit developed by the Mid-Atlantic and Northwest Telehealth Resource Centers. Listen to the archive to learn about RPM implementation.

The intent of NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) continues to be recognition of primary care practice models that have achieved a mature level of transformation toward improving population health; improving the experience of care for both patient and provider; and reducing the cost of care through greater efficiencies of integrated patient-centered care coordination.   The redesigned process uniquely positions practices, staff and other key stakeholders to focus more on performance and quality improvement, and alignment with public and private initiatives in health care that reward value-based care.  

During this webinar, we highlighted the NCQA PCMH Core and Elective criteria. We also focused on advanced topics such as the Distinction Modules and eCQMs, and then ended the learning session by taking a deeper dive to discuss the integral role pre-validated health IT plays in practice transformation and physician alignment with public and private payer programs that reward for value-based care.

The conference will explore the history and recent changes of 42 CFR Part 2, review common definitions, and how the changes may affect integrated medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) programs, and discussion on LifeLong Medical Care’s experience.

The recent global ransomware attacks have revealed weaknesses in many organizations’ security plans. The global nature of the attacks demonstrate how easy it is for criminals to target health records for either profit or malicious reasons. And it confirms that the danger of cyber-attacks will not end any time soon. This webinar, presented by noted ethical hacker Kevin Johnson, will provide insight into how hackers identify vulnerabilities and provide specific advice to help you prepare a line of defense against the next generation of attack.