In the 2022-2025 cooperative agreement, DHN will leverage health information technology (IT) and data to deliver high-quality, culturally competent, equitable, and comprehensive primary health care with a specific focus on improvements in:

• Clinical Quality
• Patient-centered care, and
• Provider and staff-wellbeing

DHN will support health centers in striving towards 10 audacious goals in 2022-2025:

• Increase patients and families’ participation in their health care through expanded use of integrated digital health tools.
• Improve data and security through development of formally defined health information and technology policies and practices that advance security to protect individual privacy and organizational access.
• Improve the use of patient-level data on social risk factors to support patient care plans for coordinated, effective interventions.
• Support health center systems and staff to submit disaggregated, patient-level data via UDS+.
• Increase health centers’ capacity to integrate clinical information with data from clinical and non-clinical sources across the health care continuum to optimize care coordination and workflows.
• Use data strategies, such as use of predictive analytics with data visualization, to support performance improvement and value-based care activities.
• Support providers and staff in achieving and maintaining proficiency in the use of digital health tools.
• Improve health IT usability and adoption by providers, staff, and patients.
• Reduce health disparities in diverse geographic areas by delivering emergency preparedness resources to adult patients, including tools for responding to disasters, disease outbreaks, and medical emergencies.
• Support high-functioning care teams by adopting Medical Inventory tracking platforms to enhance the quality and coordination of health services, reduce workload, and deliver efficient patient-centered care.