Health Center Controlled Network

WPHCA’s HCCN supports Health Centers to leverage health information technology and data to be high-performing providers and employers of choice in their communities.

Community Health Centers are critical providers of primary care, dental, behavioral health, and other services that keep families healthy. Learn more about their work, and the challenges facing under-resourced families, through WPHCA’s issue briefs. Issue briefs highlight key success and ongoing challenges in the delivery of high-quality, affordable care across Wisconsin, including both urban and rural communities.

WPHCA’s HCCN supports Health Centers in addressing some of the core infrastructure that Health Centers need to be able to be high performing providers and employers of choice for their communities, including:

• Improving patient experience and access to care through the implementation of digital patient engagement tools (e.g., patient portals, remote patient monitoring devices, patient texting, telehealth tools, etc.)
• Strengthening provider satisfaction by optimizing and customizing health information technology tools
• Optimizing health information exchange tools to increase data sharing across communities and systems to optimize care coordination, clinical quality, and improve health care outcomes.
• Leveraging data to support value-based care activities, including driving clinical quality improvements, target interventions to address health disparities, creating efficiencies, and reducing costs.
• Advancing Health Center’s mission to provide holistic, person-centered care and address patient barriers to reaching their highest health potential, including collecting and acting upon social determinants of health information.
• Strengthening Health Center’s privacy and security policies and procedures.