Health center controlled network - hccn award recipient: health center network of new york, INC., DBA healthefficient grant number: H2QCS30279 number of PHCS that are H80 grantees: 44 number of PHCS…

Health center controlled network - hccn award recipient: health center network of new york, INC., DBA healthefficient grant number: H2QCS30279 number of PHCS that are H80 grantees: 44 number of PHCS that are fqhc look-alikes: 1 healthefficient's qual IT care alliance is an existing hrsa-funded hccn established in august 2013, originally with 10 participating health centers (PHCS). Our PHC growth has been ongoing and sustained, and our qual IT care alliance hccn currently provides support to 35 fqhcs (H80 grantees) and 1 fqhc look-alike. Based on hrsa 2020 UDS data, the existing PHCS collectively served over 982,000 patients across 6 states and the district of columbia. The sites include health centers of varying sizes, as well as those serving urban, rural, migrant, and school-based health center populations. If awarded funding, we will add 9 additional PHCS, including 5 US-affiliated pacific islands. During the prior hccn project period we achieved numerous, sustained successes with our PHCS that directly reflect the hccn's goals. We partnered with the center for care innovations to provide training and resources to our members on opioid use disorder and medication assisted treatment, conducted an extensive RFP process to choose a new population health platform for our network. Developed and rolled out provider burnout surveys (including benchmarking and practice-specific follow-up support), security risk assessments, semi-annual conferences, webinars, and trainings. Healthefficient proposes to use this new round of hccn funding to build on and expand the success of the existing qual IT care alliance project. Many of the PHCS in the qual IT care alliance utilize the eclinicalworks EHR system, which allows US to provide a deep level of support and collaboration to overcome technical and workflow challenges. In partnership with the district of columbia primary care association (DCPCA), mid-atlantic association of community health centers (MACHC) and the pacific islands primary care association (PIPCA), healthefficient will continue to support PHCS that are not utilizing eclinicalworks based on our collective EHR product knowledge and topics that are vendor neutral. If awarded funding, we also plan to partner with other organizations to serve as EHR-specific experts to support achievement of grant objectives. With hccn funding through the cooperative agreement, healthefficient will provide opportunities for peer collaboration through these proposed committees and workgroups: clinical quality improvement, CMO round table and steering committee; health information technology; and patient engagement and access. The qual IT care alliance will address common health center needs by enhancing PHC data analytics capabilities, including quality improvement dashboards for advanced data strategies; providing support to develop necessary patient privacy and cybersecurity policies; optimizing the use of patient engagement and digital health tools, including patient portals, patient self-monitoring devices, and telehealth; closing gaps in care and medication adherence; assisting PHCS to transition to submitting patient-level UDS data; improving health IT usability and adoption; enhancing tools to close the loop on care coordination through data exchange and integration; strengthening substance use disorder treatment programs; and collecting and using social determinants of health data. Healthefficient will address these PHC needs using a combination of one-on-one practice facilitation, collaborative work groups, webinars, training, best practice workflows and configuration recommendations, and producing health center data dashboards. These activities will play a vital role in enhancing PHC ability to improve the health status of their vulnerable communities while navigating the evolving value-based patient-centered care environment.