In August, OCHIN shared HRSA’s announcement of $107 million awarded to health centers across the country based on clinical and operational performance, as demonstrated by Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting.
With just about six weeks until the end of the calendar year, OCHIN wants to remind members about resources to support your organization’s 2019 UDS performance, and the resources available to you by OCHIN’s HCCN, to help you prepare for optimal UDS performance in 2020.
Read MoreNovember is National Diabetes Month sponsored by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 30 million Americans have diabetes and an additional 84 million have prediabetes. Along with OCHIN’s suite of tools and resources to help manage diabetes, OCHIN is expanding its scope to focus on upstream preventive interventions. In 2020, we plan to roll out a collaborative-wide campaign sponsored by HCCN, to encourage members to work together in a focused effort to improve performance on diabetes prevention and control across the board.
Read MoreNew this week on Ella, OCHIN’s LMS, is the Hypertension Control Hub. This easy-to-use, centralized page can help direct and drive hypertension control efforts at your organization. The Hub features exclusive member resources including the OCHIN Epic Hypertension Improvement Guide, information about the Epic Slicer Dicer functionality, case studies, and more, all organized in one easy-to-access spot on the Hub.
Read MoreOCHIN marks National High Blood Pressure Education Month with the release of the revised edition of the OCHIN Epic Hypertension Control Improvement Guide v3.0, available now on Ella, OCHIN’s LMS.
OCHIN makes it easy for Site Specialists to provide clinic staff broad access to member resources on Ella. Consult the Crowd Importer User Guide on the Site Specialist Wiki Page for details.
Read MoreOCHIN’s Analytics and Quality Reporting (AAQR) team shares this month’s Top Three in Quality Metric Reporting, in honor of May’s designation as National High Blood Pressure Education Month. The AAQR team also features a recap and resources from their session at this year’s Learning Forum.
Read MoreScreen to Prevent Colon Cancer, or STOP-CRC, was a five-year research collaboration between Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Group Health Research Institute, and OCHIN. Funded by the National Cancer Institute, the study was completed in December 2018. Resources developed through this project are now available to the OCHIN (Epic) collaborative.
Read MoreProgressive Leaders Workshop is a growing learning community of OCHIN member leaders focused on high-level discussion about theory, methodology, and pragmatic solutions to sustain excellence in their organizations. OCHIN staff designed a year-long curriculum to support the interests of members, driven by learnings from the High Performers Project. OCHIN memers are invited to join us on the second Tuesday of each month.
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