Transportation Measure Meeting Notes

10/11/23

Discussion Points:

• Welcome and Introductions

• Overview of CareQuest     Katja  (See attached) 

• Overview of current Status of Transportation Measure   (Julia)

• Discussion on next steps:

  • Define roles and responsibilities moving forward  AAPCHO-NACHC.

    • Carequest

    • Transportation

  • Meeting dates and times

  • Next steps

• Focus on publishing

• CareQuest

• Universal screen to test for transportation

  • Element optionally requested by UDS

• Contract would go through 6/30/24

  • One contract for 2 SOWs

  • Conference - could do CHI 2024, open to other options

    • Travel should be included but separate for auditing purposes

• SDOH Closed Loop Pilot Proposal

  • Products

    • Compiled recommendations from health centers and stakeholders on design of closed loop referral system for Transportation or other SDOH

    • Data collection implementation resources including workflow diagram(s), data template, data reporting/tracking templates, and screenshots

    • Developed and tested Implementation Readiness Assessment Tool

    • Narrative Report that describes key findings, promising practices, and lessons learned as well as recommendations for next steps

  • Closed loop protocol - work with transportation providers and providees to ensure patient received transportation recommended by HC or other social service provider and be able to state what the outcome for the patient was

    • Hopefully will be able to work with vendors to collaboratively test as well

  • Some groundwork has been done, Informatics will check in with Julia

  • What measure(s) would be most meaningful to track implementation, impact?

    • Could add additional data elements to EMR

• Roles

  • NACHC will handle environmental scan, Informatics side

  • AAPCHO handle research side

• Meetings

  • 2 pm EST on Wednesdays works for AAPCHO, most of NACHC team - bimonthly

• Katja/Kathy will begin working on SOW and executing contract

• NACHC will take care of environmental scan

• Figure out meeting cadence, Rosy will send times

• Determine main NACHC point of contact for Transportation