In summer of 2020, The Care Transformation Collaborative of RI (CTC-RI/PCMH Kids) launched a three-phase project funded through UnitedHealthcare and Cares Act Funding. To learn more about this initiave including information on the needs assessment, webinar series and outcomes, check out the Rhode Island Telehealth Project Report.
Project goals are:
1) Provide primary care team with best practice sharing opportunities to support effective, safe and efficient telehealth services looking at practice/staff/patient experiences, clinical outcomes, access to care and utilization;
2) Help inform RI health care policy on primary care practice/patient telehealth needs
The project consists of three phases; to learn more about each phase follow the links below:
Phase 1: Practice Assessment/Patient Engagment Surveys
Phase 2: Telehealth Webinar Series
A Planning Committee (including Northeast Telehealth Resource Center representation) helped develop 1) the Primary Care Telehealth Practice Assessment and Patient Needs Survey and 2) the 6-month educational webinar series based on review of practice and patient needs assessment findings and recommendations. A full list of committee members can be accessed HERE.
2/3/21 Presentation at the Center for Digtal Health
The mission of the Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island is to lead the transformation of primary care in Rhode Island in the context of an integrated health care system; and to improve the quality of care, the patient experience of care, the affordability of care, and the health of the populations we serve.