Health ICT

Health ICT: New Name, Same Mission

In 2021, Health ICT joined with the Kansas Business Group on Health. However, the work and the mission remain the same: helping providers improve the identification, prevention, and management of individuals with diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol.

With funding provided through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 我们与医疗保健提供者合作，开发基于团队的护理方法来提供护理，使非医生团队成员有权处理更可预测的情况, 病人护理的例行任务，以确保一致性，并允许医生专注于更严重的病人问题.

Since 2016, 我们一直在通过提供资金和免费技术援助来帮助威奇托和整个州的供应商. See the graphics below to get a better understanding of our quality improvement process. Contact us to learn more!

Resources for Team-Based Care

When looking to implement a quality improvement initiative within a healthcare practice, there’s no need to re-invent the wheel. Below is a list of of best practices.

• AMA Steps Forward Team-Based Care Module: This collection of AMA’s STEPS Forward^® toolkits offer proven strategies on how to implement team-based care to save time, redistribute and share responsibilities with your team, and allow you to provide better and more timely care.
• The Weitzman Institute’s “Upskilling” Program: Recognizing the great value and importance of ancillary professionals, Weitzman研究所提供各种专门针对硕士和卫生工作者的技能提升教育. 这样做是为了支持这部分劳动力提高他们的表现和能力, and also setting them up for professional advancement within the field.
• AHRQ’s White Paper Creating Patient-Centered Team-Based Primary Care本文提出了一个概念框架整合团队为基础的护理和以病人为中心的护理在初级保健设置, 并提供了一些实用的策略，以支持实施以患者为中心的以团队为基础的初级保健.
• IHI’s various team-based care webinars, sessions, and papers: A great collection of resources for optimizing team-based primary care.
• ACP’s Team-Based Care Toolkit:本工具包分享了成功的基于团队的临床护理模式的最佳实践和现实例子，其中包括内科医生与执业护士(NPs)和医师助理(PAs)以及临床护理团队的其他成员合作.
• The Primary Care Collaborative:初级保健合作组织(PCC)是一个非营利性的多利益相关方会员组织，致力于在初级保健和以患者为中心的医疗之家的坚实基础上推进有效和高效的卫生系统.
• Intent-based leadership International基于意图的领导是一种语言和实践系统，它挑战了传统的领导模式，并创造了各个层次的领导者, helping organizations to transform how they work and how they make decisions.
• Dr. 鲍勃·巴格特的《正规澳门赌场app》: This paper examines burnout related to implementing a quality improvement project, 以及构建质量改进项目的有效方法，以最大限度地减少供应商的倦怠.
• Bob Badgett and Julia Emberson’s “Table of Contrasts”这个项目是对积极偏差和类似研究的元叙述总结，这些研究在过程或结果测量中对个别临床医生或临床场所的积极偏差进行定性对比, compared to individuals or sites that are not ‘bright spots’.

For more information on how to assess and develop a workflow, check out these resources:

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Clinical Workflow Toolkit
• Using a Clinical Workflow Analysis to Enhance eHealth Implementation Planning
• Clinical Workflow Analysis, Process Redesign, and Quality Improvement

Factors related to a patient’s Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) can play a role as big, often times bigger, than the clinic care they receive. In order to determine the patient’s needs, an SDoH screening tool may be required. They are many available, with some being a better fit in certain settings than others. Click here to see a comparative list of many of the available SDoH screening tools.

Holistic Care Providers & Resources

When treating patients, it is important to holistically address their health. 整体保健是一种改善心理状况的综合健康管理方法, emotions, 并能更好地调节糖尿病患者的血糖水平，提高生活质量. Holistic care focuses on the overall human experience and condition, both physically, emotionally, socially, culturally, and spiritually, and considers the effects of the disease not only on the patient, but also on the patient’s family and community. 塞奇威克县和堪萨斯州的整体护理提供者和资源是:

Diabetes Prevention and Management

Identifying, treating, and referring for diabetes is best done as a team. By allowing non-physician team members, such as nurses, medical assistants, or pharmacists, physicians can focus on more acute and severe conditions.

Learn how diabetes care can be done differently (5 minutes)

In an effort to increase enrollment in evidence-based programs, such as the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and Diabetes Self-Management Education & Support (DSMES), we work to maintain a list of all providers of across the state.

Click either image to view and download the full version. We can print and provide this handout for you at no charge, as well as brand it with your organization’s logo. Contact us to learn more!

Hypertension Control

控制病人的高血压是医学上最有效的延长生命的疗法之一. In order to assist the physician and her care team, it’s important for patients to have their blood pressure checked outside the office.

我们与威奇托消防局和塞奇威克县紧急医疗服务中心(EMS)建立了合作关系，为任何个人进行训练有素的血压检查, 24/7/365. This handout, which can be customized with your clinic logo and patient portal information at no charge, provides patients with a map of all the Fire Department and EMS stations, 以及一个血压追踪卡，记录他们的读数并将其返回给他们的提供者.

Click either image to view and download the full version. We can print and provide this handout for you at no charge, as well as brand it with your organization’s logo. Contact us to learn more!

Learn more about team-based approaches to hypertension care (90 minutes)

KDHE Self Management Program Map

The Kansas Department of Health & Environment (KDHE) recently developed a new statewide Self-Management Program Map. 这张地图将帮助您和您的病人或员工了解堪萨斯州的项目, including Chronic Disease Self-Management, Diabetes Self-Management, EnhanceFitness, Healthy Heart Ambassadors, Diabetes Prevention Programs, and Walk With Ease.

Click here to access the map and find a program near you!

Pharmacy

在帮助患者预防或管理慢性疾病时，药剂师往往是一个未充分利用的专业知识来源. When empowered to work at the top of their license, pharmacists can improve health outcomes for patients, while significantly lowering the burden for physicians.

Under formal agreements between physicians and pharmacists, called Collaborative Practice Agreements (CPAs), 医生为药剂师如何照顾患有特定疾病的病人制定了一份协议. Learn more about how a CPA works, and hear from a physician who collaborates with pharmacists in this manner. Learn more by watching the recorded presentations below.

Elements of a CPA (5 minutes)

Collaborative Practice Agreements: A Physician Perspective (6 minutes)

Community Health Workers

社区卫生工作者(CHW)是一名一线公共卫生工作者，是所服务社区值得信赖的成员和/或对社区有着异常密切的了解. 这种信任关系使工作人员能够成为保健/社会服务机构与社区之间的联络人/纽带/中介，促进获得服务，提高服务的质量和文化能力.

卫生保健中心还通过外联等一系列活动增加卫生知识和自给自足，建立个人和社区能力, community education, informal counseling, social support and advocacy.

Check out these short videos to learn more:

How CHWs are impacting the health of Kansans (5 minutes)

How CHWs are chosen by their community (6 minutes)