Health IT Adoption & Meaningful Use

Improving quality and coordinating care through technology.

Health information technology (HIT) can be a challenging and risky undertaking for any provider, but innovative use of electronic health records (EHRs) is essential to delivering patient-centered care. Done right, it can coordinate and use information from the patient, primary care physician, and other providers and healthcare organizations to help create a patient's true medical home.

PCDC has supported more than 50 primary care organizations in their efforts to adopt, implement and optimize health IT, including health information exchange, clinical decision support, e-prescribing, and telehealth.

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Health IT and Meaningful Use Services

Phase 1: Selection and Preparation

• Facilitate health IT strategic planning, including selection of EHRs and other technologies
• Provide executive coaching, staff training, and team-building to improve management of HIT projects
• Establish proper work flows to prepare providers and staff

Phase 2: Implementation - Meaningful Use in the Medical Home

• Support customization of EHR templates, reports and special functions
• Provide EHR "go-live" assistance, including training, documentation, project management and coaching
• Implement data capture, reporting and quality improvement functions to support the medical home model, including panel management, registries, care management and patient experience
  
• Provide assessments, recommendations and training curriculum for NCQA 2011 PCMH recognition and meaningful use attestation

Phase 3: Optimization - Meaningful Use in the Medical Neighborhood

• Support design and implementation of health information exchange, referral/specialty coordination, e-prescribing and provider communication
• Support design and implementation of virtual visits, patient portals, personal health records
• Support adoption of care coordination processes within care teams, including population health and chronic disease management