PTECH Network Goals
HRSA asks all Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCN) to support the particiapting health centers strive to achieve the goals & objectives as measured by the numerator during the 3-year program.
Goal A
Goal B
Goal C
Objective 1 : Patient Access
HRSA Description: Increase the percentage of PHCs using health IT to facilitate patients’ access to their personal health information (e.g., patient history, test results, shared electronic care plans, self-management tools).
HRSA Numerator Description: Number of Health Centers with at least 50% of patients having accessed their patient portal accounts within the last 12 months
Baseline: 18 | Denominator: 46
Objective 1 : Data Protection
HRSA Description: Increase the percentage of PHCs that have completed a security risk analysis and have a breach mitigation and response plan.
HRSA Numerator Description: Number of PHCs that have implemented a breach mitigation and response plan based on their annual security risk assessment.
Baseline: 27 | Denominator: 46
Objective 1 : Data Analysis
HRSA Description: Increase the percentage of PHCs that improve capacity for data standardization, management, and analysis to support value-based care activities (e.g., improve clinical quality, achieve efficiencies, reduce costs).
HRSA Numerator Description: Number of PHCs using a dashboard and/or standard reports to present useful data to inform value-based care activities (e.g., improve clinical quality, achieve efficiencies, reduce costs) in the last 12 months.
Baseline: 21 | Denominator: 46
Objective 2: Patient Engagement
HRSA Description: Increase the percentage of PHCs improving patient engagement with their health care team by advancing health IT and training (e.g., patient use of remote monitoring devices, better medication adherence with text reminders).
HRSA Numerator Description: Number of PHCs with at least 30 percent of patients who have used a digital tool (e.g., electronic messages sent through the patient portal to providers, remote monitoring) between visits to communicate health information with the PHC within the last 12 months.
Baseline: 20 | Denominator: 46
Objective 2: Health Information Exchange
HRSA Description: Increase the percentage of PHCs that leverage HIE to meet HL7 standards or national standards as specified in the ONC Interoperability Standards Advisory and share information securely with other key providers and health systems.
HRSA Numerator Description: Number of PHCs that transmitted summary of care record to at least 3 external health care providers and/or health systems in the last 12 months using certified EHR technology through platforms that align with HL7 or national standards specified in the ONC Interoperability Standards Advisory.
Baseline: 20 | Denominator: 46
Objective 2: Social Risk Factor Intervention
HRSA Description: Increase the percentage of PHCs that use both aggregate and patient-level data on social risk factors to support coordinated, effective interventions.
HRSA Numerator Description: Number of PHCs that use health IT to collect or share social risk factor data with care teams and use this data to inform care plan development on at least 50 percent of patients identified as having a risk factor (e.g. care teams use patient reported data on food insecurity or other social risk factors to better tailor care plans/interventions and community referrals to improve chronic disease management and outcomes) in the last 12 months.
Baseline: 9 | Denominator: 46
Objective 3: Provider Burden
HRSA Description: Increase the percentage of PHCs that improve health IT usability to minimize provider burden (e.g., align EHRs with clinical workflows, improve structured data capture in and/or outside of EHRs).
HRSA Numerator Description: Number of PHCs that have improved provider satisfaction (e.g. survey results) through implementation of at least one HIT facilitated intervention (e.g. improved CDS, EHR template customization/optimization, telehealth, eConsults, mobile health, dashboards, other reporting tools) within the last 12 months.
Baseline: 7 | Denominator: 46
Objective 3: Data Integration
HRSA Description: Increase the percentage of PHCs that consolidate clinical data with data from multiple clinical and non-clinical sources across the health care continuum (e.g., specialty providers, departments of health, care coordinators, social service/housing organizations) to optimize care coordination and workflows.
HRSA Numerator Description: In the last 12 months, the number of PHCs that have integrated data into structured EHR fields (i.e., not free text or attachments) from at least 3 external clinical and/or non-clinical sources.
Baseline: 27 | Denominator: 46
Objective 3: Prescription Drug Monitoring (PDM) HIT Tools
HRSA Description: HRSA gave allowance for each HCCN to choose a third objective that reflects the needs of their network members. PTECH chose supporting PHCs with workflow optimization
PTECH Numerator Description: Number of PHCs that have evaluated their use of HIT to support PDMP tools and improve opioid prescribing practices
Baseline: 30 | Denominator: 46
PTECH Network Baseline & Targets to Achieve by 2022
Goal A: Enhance Patient & Provider Experence
Goal B - Advance Interoperability
Goal C - Use Data to Enhance Value