HRSA-13-251
Rural Health Information Technology Workforce Program
Performance Measures
Goal:
Funded networks can focus on a variety of activities related to the recruitment, education, training, and retention of HIT specialists to include providing recruitment assistance and training support directly to enrolled HIT specialist students.
Tables/Categories:
Service Area
Demographics
Network
Sustainability of Program
Access to Education
Education and Training
Workforce Recruitment and Retention
Measures:
Table 1: SERVICE AREA
Instructions:
Information collected in this table provides an aggregate count of the number of counties within the service area which may or may not be the total population residing within the service area. Please indicate a numerical figure or DK for do not know, if applicable.
Number of counties
End of the budget year number is the number of counties served by the end of the budget year.
Denotes the number of counties served through the program. Please include entire, as well as partial counties served through the grant program. If your project is serving only a fraction of a county, please count that as one (1) county.
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Number of counties: (If you serve a sub-county area please count this as (1) |
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Total number of counties served |
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Number of counties providing students for the program |
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Number of counties where the affiliated educational institution(s), apprenticeships, network member hospitals/clinics and/or other rural health care provider placements are located |
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Table 2: POPULATION DEMOGRAPHICS
Instructions:
Please provide the number of people in your service population by race, ethnicity, and veteran status. The number of people is the total potential trainee population targeted for the Rural HIT Workforce Program. The number of people in the target population would be the total number of trainees the network HIT workforce organization has access to as well as the total number of trainees enrolled in the educational programs and institutions where the network is actively recruiting.
If the number of people is zero (0), please put zero (0) in the appropriate section; do not leave any sections blank. There should not be a N/A (not applicable) response since all measures are applicable.
Number of people served through program by ethnicity (Hispanic or Latino/Not Hispanic or Latino). Hispanic or Latino origin includes Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and other Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin (i.e. Argentinean, Colombian, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Spaniard etc.)
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Number in target population by ethnicity: |
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Number in target population by race: |
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Asian |
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Black or African American |
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White |
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Number of veterans in target population |
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Table 3: NETWORK
Instructions:
Please identify the total number of formal member organizations in the consortium or network, as well as the types of member organizations by non-profit and for-profit status and organization type. Please indicate a number for each category.
Please also indicate the number of health care providers, professionals and critical access hospitals that are eligible for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program.
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Number of non-profit member organizations in the consortium or network |
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Number of for-profit member organizations in the consortium or network |
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Total number of member organizations in the Consortium/Network |
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Area Health Education Center (AHEC) |
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Community College |
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Community Health Center |
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Critical Access Hospital |
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Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) |
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Health Center Controlled Network (HCCN) |
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Health Department |
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Migrant Health Center |
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Private Practice |
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Regional Extension Center |
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Rural Acute Care General Hospital |
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Rural Health Clinic |
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School District |
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Social Services Organization |
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University/College |
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Urban Acute Care General Hospital |
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Network Characteristics |
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Total number of professionals in the network that are eligible for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program |
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Total number of hospitals in the network that are eligible for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program |
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Total number of Critical Access Hospitals that are eligible for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program |
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Table 4: SUSTAINABILITY OF PROGAM
Instructions:
Please provide the following funding/revenue amounts:
The annual program award based on box 12a of your Notice of Grant Award (NGA) or Notice of Award (NoA).
The amount of annual revenue (if any) for the Rural HIT Workforce Program.
The amount of additional funding secured to sustain the Rural HIT Workforce Program.
Please indicate if you have a sustainability plan and select your sustainability activities.
If the total amount of additional funding secured is zero (0), please put zero in the appropriate section. Do not leave any sections blank.
Please identify the source(s) of revenue for sustainability and indicate whether you have developed a sustainability plan. Please identify the types of sustainability activities that the network/consortium engaged in during the respective budget year; please check all that apply.
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Funding/Revenue: |
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Annual program award |
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Annual program revenue |
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Additional funding secured to assist in sustaining the program for example value of in-kind services, additional grants, cash, etc. |
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Does the network have a sustainability plan that has been approved by the network’s membership? |
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Type(s) of sources of funding for sustainability: |
Selection list |
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Tuition |
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Network Business Revenue |
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In-Kind Contributions such as Financial Endowments |
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Project Member Dues |
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Fundraising |
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Contractual Services |
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Other – Specify Type: |
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HIT Sustainability Activities: |
Check all that apply |
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Consolidation of activities, services and purchases (with Network partners) |
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Communication plan development |
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Economic impact analysis |
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Return on investment analysis |
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Community engagement activities |
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Business plan development |
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Partnership with regional Workforce Investment Boards |
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Organization bylaws |
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SWOT analysis |
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Sustainability plan |
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Workflow analysis and redesign |
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Other – Specify activity: |
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Will the Network/Consortium sustain beyond the HRSA/ORHP funding period? |
Y/N |
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Will Network sponsored-HIT education and training program continue after HRSA/ORHP funding ends? |
Y/N |
Table 5: ACCESS TO EDUCATION
Instructions:
Please provide the following information about individuals enrolled in the program. In question 17 individuals may fall into more than one category.
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Access to Education |
Indicate the total number of individuals enrolled in the program |
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Indicate the number of individuals enrolled in the program by type: |
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Indicate the number of individuals enrolled that currently have an Associates level degree or higher |
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Table 6: EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Instructions:
In questions 20, 22, 24, 26 and 28 individuals may fall into more than one category.
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Education & Training |
Indicate the total number of individuals who completed the curriculum
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Indicate the number of individuals who completed the curriculum by type:
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Indicate the total number of individuals who completed the CEHRT training |
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Indicate the number of individuals who completed the CEHRT training by type: |
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Indicate the total number of individuals who completed the apprenticeship |
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Indicate the number of individuals who completed the apprenticeship by type: |
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Indicate the total number of individuals who completed the certificate program |
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Indicate the number of individuals who completed the certificate program by type: |
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Indicate the number of individuals who completed the program that have an Associates level degree or higher
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Indicate the number of individuals who permanently left the program before completion by type:
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Select the competency exam the program has selected to assess HIT Specialist competencies:
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Indicate the total number of individuals who passed the competency exam selected from above.
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Select the Health Information Technology (HIT) curriculum focus of the program (select all that apply)
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Select the following professional competencies outlined by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) that aligns with the program’s HIT curriculum (select all that apply)
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Indicate if curriculum delivery mode is classroom based learning, distance learning (online, webinar) or Hybrid (mostly classroom) Hybrid (mostly distance learning).
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Indicate if CEHRT training delivery mode is classroom based (on site), distance learning (online, webinar) or Hybrid (mostly classroom) Hybrid (mostly distance learning).
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Select the type of curriculum development or enhancement activity conducted during the reporting period from the options below. You may select more than one option.
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Indicate the number of the EHR vendors used in this curriculum.
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Table 7: WORKFORCE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION
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Workforce & Retention |
Indicate the total number of individuals who are employed in the field of Health Information Technology as a result of the program
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Indicate the number of individuals who completed the program that currently employed in the field of HIT by setting:
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Indicate the number of individuals who completed the program that are employed in the field of Health Information Technology within a network member facility
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Indicate the number of HIT specialists shared among two or more network members
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Select the areas where the HIT Specialists hired as a result of the ORHP funded program, implemented, expanded or strengthened the following technologies: (select all that apply)
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Indicate the number of targeted vacant Health Information Technology and/or HIT related positions located within the rural community.
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Indicate the number of targeted vacant Health Information Technology and/or HIT related positions located within the rural community that were filled during the reporting period.
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How many program completers** who were placed in a permanent rural position are still employed in a rural HIT specialist position?
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Indicate the number of network members that reached EHR meaningful use stage 1 due to the hiring of an HIT specialist from the ORHP funded program
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Indicate the number of network members that reached EHR meaningful use stage 2 due to the hiring of an HIT specialist from the ORHP funded program
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*Note: For a definition of disadvantaged, please go to http://www.hrsa.gov/loanscholarships/scholarships/disadvantaged.html
**Program completers are individuals who have completed the education, apprenticeship, training and successful passing of the competency exam.
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Author | HRSA |
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File Modified | 2014-06-11 |
File Created | 2014-06-11 |