Quality Measures and Health IT Learning Collaborative Application
Welcome to Quality Measures and Health IT Learning Collaborative: REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
Background/Overview
Health centers providing services to people experiencing homelessness have tremendous potential to directly affect the health status and influence numerous social underlying societal inequities that contribute to health disparities and poor health. Over the next three years, the National Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Council will focus on developing Learning Collaboratives targeting health centers to improve their performance and practice in areas related to trauma, behavioral health and addressing the social determinants of health.
In collaboration with the Health Information Technology, Evaluation, and Quality Center (HITEQ), the National HCH Council would like to offer the opportunity for health centers that serve individuals experiencing homelessness to be involved in our learning collaborative focused on Quality measures and Health IT for population health.
Aims:
Create a shared learning environment with peers and experts on Quality Performance Measures most meaningful to the homeless community
Effectively use health information technology to support population health and efficient workflows
Why Participate?: Opportunities for capacity building, education sessions, facilitated discussion, and learning communities focused and driven by the needs of the Health Care for the Homeless Grantees Increase your capacity to use health IT to support population health management of your patients
Who should participate?:
Health Centers that receive Health Care for the Homeless funding (330h)
QI Directors
Health IT staff
Those that provide direct care (Providers in select meetings)
Activities:
Learning Communities
Quality Measures (QM):
Identify & prioritize the most pertinent quality performance measures for HCH patients
Discuss potential workflows
Data Capture & Information Sharing
How do you capture QMs effectively?
How do you share across systems or link to other data sources and/or outside organizations?
What are the best practices?
Virtual Trainings:
Effective use of population health management tools
Cleaning and validating data from multiple sources
Risk stratification
Timeline: November '17 - Applications available December '17 - Signed agreements January '18 - Kick-off webinar Spring '18 - HITEQ Peer Learning Focused on Population Health Quarterly - Continued Peer Learning
Expectations:
Get leadership buy in and sign off on participation
Commit the participation of at least 1 staff member to manage progress reports and attend meetings throughout the entirety of the 3-year Learning Collaborative (Site Coordinator).
Year 1: Participation in monthly one hour webinars (January through May 2017)
Completion of polls so progress can be monitored
Years 2 and 3: Complete QI action items, which might include submitting progress reports with your peers during sessions and providing feedback on collaborative deliverables
Share successes and challenges at quarterly meetings
