Member Update
August 1, 2016
2016 HCCN Grant Project

Today is day one of the new HCCN grant project!

Welcome, and thank you for participating in Health Center Connections!

 

HRSA recently awarded funding to KAMU that enables the HCCN Grant Project Team to assist members of Health Center Connections in achieving the goals of the grant project. The objectives, focus areas and goals of the 3-year grant project follow.

 

Over the next few weeks, we will work with you to determine your specific needs in each of the focus areas and with your help develop an individual work plan with activities designed to promote your health center's capacity to achieve these goals.

 

We are excited to begin this new phase of the HCCN and look forward to working with you!

Objectives, Focus Areas, and Goals
Focus Area
Description
Goal
Core Objective A: Health IT Implementation and Meaningful Use
A1: Certified EHR Adoption and Implementation
Support the adoption, use, and optimization of certified EHRs.
Increase the percentage of Participating Health Centers with an ONC-certified EHR system in use.
A2: Advance Meaningful Use
Assist with meeting Stages 1, 2, and 3 Meaningful Use requirements.
Increase the percentage of Meaningful Use eligible providers at Participating Health Centers receiving incentive payments from CMS for meeting Meaningful Use requirements.
Core Objective B: Data Quality and Reporting
B1: Data Quality
Provide strategies to enhance data validity for reporting, aggregation, and analysis.
Increase the percentage of Participating Health Centers that electronically extract data from an EHR to report all UDS Clinical Quality Measure data on all of their patients.
B2: Health Center and Site Level Data Reports
Support enhanced data reporting at the health center site and clinical team levels.
Increase the percentage of Participating Health Centers generating quality improvement reports at the site and clinical team levels.
B3: Health Data Integration
Support the integration of health data across all service types provided by the health center.
Increase the percentage of Participating Health Centers that integrate data from different service types and/or providers (e.g., behavioral health, oral health).
Core Objective C: Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Population Health Management
C1: Health Information Exchange
Support secure health information exchange among unaffiliated providers or entities.
Increase the percentage of Participating Health Centers that improve care coordination through health information exchange with unaffiliated providers or entities.
C2: Population Health Management
Support population health management activities leveraging health information across different care settings.
Increase the percentage of Participating Health Centers using health information exchange to support population health management.
Core Objective D: Quality Improvement
D1: Clinical Quality Improvement
Support use of health IT to enhance performance on clinical quality measures.
Increase the percentage of Participating Health Centers that meet or exceed Healthy People 2020 goals on at least five selected UDS Clinical Quality Measures.
D2: Operational Quality Improvement
Support use of health IT to support health center operational excellence.
Increase the percentage of Participating Health Centers that improved the value, efficiency, and/or effectiveness of health center services.
D3: Advance PCMH Status
Assist health centers in using health IT to advance their respective PCMH recognition and implementation efforts.
Increase the percentage of Participating Health Center sites that have current PCMH recognition.

Contact the HCCN Grant Project Team
Feel free to contact any member of the KAMU HCCN Grant Project Team below for assistance with project activities.

Terri Kennedytkennedy@kspca.org785-233-8483
Susan Woodswood@kspca.org785-233-8483
Trish Harknesstharkness@kspca.org620-874-8034
Health Center Connections is a health center controlled network organized and supported by KAMU. Current funding for Connections is through Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HCCN Funding Opportunity HRSA-16-010.