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Demonstrating the impact of HIT in Latino communities
Learning Areas:
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programsProgram planning
Public health or related education
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
List two case studies that highlight innovative grassroots, community-based programs using health IT to address the needs of Latino populations with documented disparities in access, quality of care, and outcomes.
Articulate the procedure based on this Case Stidy for using telepsychiatry for the treatment of depression in underserved Hispanics.
Explain how Columbia Basin Health Association (CBHA) a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)implemented an innovative IT pilot project with the goal of improving quality of care and access for the rural and migrant populations.
Keyword(s): Telehealth, Access to Care
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been the lead staff on HIT and Health Disparities working in the Office of the Secretary, Office of Minority Health and in 2010 recruited to the Health Resources and Service Administration's Office of Health Information Technology and Quality to be the HRSA Government Task Lead for the HIT and Health Disparities report. Accomplishments include having designed, coordinated and implemented more than 20 HIT projects focused on underserved populations, racial/ethnic and Spanish Language users.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.