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For a Glossary of HDC Terms and Concepts, please click HERE.
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ADOL DEPR
This denotes health centers that participated in an Adolescent Depression Collaborative; the first teams to participate were in 2000.
AP
Action Period – the time between learning sessions when teams test changes in their health center and collect data on key clinical process and outcome measures to see if the changes result in improvements in care.
ARMC
Access and Redesign Mini-Collaborative – a West Central Cluster sponsored Collaborative to support greater patient access and refinement of health center systems, initially launched in 2004.
ASTH
This denotes health centers that participated in an Asthma collaborative, initially launched in 2000.
BPHC
Bureau of Primary Health Care
BTS
Breakthrough Series (Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s nomenclature) – the Collaboratives started as an Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) initiative; large for-profit and managed care organizations paid IHI a fee in order to participate; IHI is a strategic partner with the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the work of the current Health Disparities Collaboratives.
CA
This denotes health centers that participated in a Cancer Collaborative, initial prototype occurred in 2002.
CIS
Clinical Information System – incorporates the development of a comprehensive, integrated information system that is “patient-centered”, includes patient registries, a practice management system, including billing system, an electronic health record and/or personal health records.
CM
Care Model - a model that represents the ideal system of healthcare for people with chronic disease and an approach to redesigning healthcare to mirror that ideal system; developed by Improving Chronic Illness Care; the model has six components: community resources and policies, healthcare organization, self-management support, decision support, delivery system design, and clinical information systems.
CVD
This denotes health centers that participated in a Cardio Vascular Disease Collaborative, initially launched in 2001.
CVDEMS
Cardiovascular/Diabetes Electronic Management System – the clinical registry developed when the Collaboratives expanded to encompass cardiovascular disease.
DEMS
Diabetes Electronic Management System – the clinical registry developed after DM 1999 in response to health centers’ need for clinical database support.
DEPR
This denotes health centers that participated in a Depression Collaborative, initially launched in 2000.
DM
This denotes health centers that participated in a Diabetes Collaborative, initially launched in 1999.
HDC
Health Disparities Collaboratives – the current name for the BPHC’s Collaborative initiative.
HSPI
Health Status and Performance Improvement Initiative (former name for the BPHC Collaboratives).
IHI
Institute for Healthcare Improvement – an independent not-for-profit organization working since 1991 to accelerate improvement in health care systems in the United States and internationally by fostering collaboration, rather than competition, among health care organizations, that are committed to real health care reform.
ISS
Information System Specialist – an individual in the cluster working with the Cluster Director and Cluster Coordinators to assist the teams with registry development and upkeep, reporting graphs, e-mail, listservs, and presentations
LS
Learning Session – a three-day conference for the health centers in Phase I; there are four learning sessions in the first year of a collaborative which bring health center teams together to assess their progress, share ideas, gain greater knowledge about the Collaborative models, and plan for the next action period.
MI
Model for Improvement – an approach to process improvement developed by Associates in Process Improvement, which helps teams accelerate the adoption of proven and effective changes; the model includes use of “rapid-cycle improvement”, successive cycles of planning, doing, studying, and acting (PDSA cycles).
PDSA
Plan, Do, Study, Act - a Continuous Quality Improvement methodology that facilitates making changes very rapidly in systems; involves testing changes to systems on a very small scale before proceeding to implementation; PDSAs are an integral part of the Model for Improvement.
PECS
Patient Electronic Care System – a multi-disease clinical registry developed to support the expansion of the Collaboratives (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, cancer, depression and prevention).
REDEFIN
This denotes health centers that participated in the BPHC supported Finance and Redesign Collaborative, initially launched in 2003.
POF
Population of Focus - a subset (150-300) of patients with a given chronic disease; this is a dynamic number that will fluctuate slightly from month to month; the health center teams begin testing and implementing care delivery changes on this subset of patients before then spreading the new system of care to all of their patients with that chronic condition.
RPV
This denotes a BPHC sponsored Collaborative on Redesigning the Patient Visit. BPHC contracted with Roger Coleman and Associates to provide intensive six-month RPV training across the nation (1999-2002).
WCC
West Central Cluster – the collective group of community health centers and collaborative staff in the following states: CO, WY, UT, SD, ND, MT, OK, LA, TX, AR, and NM.
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