Call for abstracts is open for 2010 National Summit on HIV Diagnosis, Prevention and Access to Care Due August 27th

HRSA/HAB hosted a Web conference entitled Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records – Ryan White Ambulatory Care Providers.

Healthcare.gov is the first Web site to collect both public and private health insurance options across the Nation in a single place. Features include an Insurance Options Finder, information about your rights as a consumer, insights on how to navigate the health insurance marketplace, and an explanation of how the Affordable Care Act can help you.

New Priority Setting and Resource Allocation Tool added to the TA Collection. Developed by New York City HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council (Part A) and NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Also featured in Journal of Community Health ("The Development and Implementation of a User-Friendly Priority Setting Tool for HIV Care and Treatment Services in New York City," Santella, et. al.

CMS Education Series for Providers on the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs.

Registration is open for the National Quality Center Web conference scheduled for Thursday, August 12. The title for the session is Quality Management for Non-Clinical Care.

What's Going on @ SPNS (June 2010): Creating Change: Using Motivational Interviewing in SPNS Projects (2010)

Review the press statement from HHS Secretary Sebelius regarding newly released funding for the ADAP program. Also see the AIDS.gov blog posts on ADAP funding and on the new syringe programs guidance.

The Summer 2010 Issue of mental health AIDS is Released. Click here to read the feature "HIV & Hepatitis C: Coping with Coinfection (Part 2)

Join PSPC 3.0, HRSA’s Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative, an effort that is dramatically improving health outcomes and medication safety of high-risk patients by working with teams across the Nation to transform how they deliver care to patients. Complete the participant package to enroll in PSPC 3.0 by July 30 and join other team leaders by across the country. E-mail Questions.

See the TA collection's new series of data confidentiality policies from Minnesota (procedures and policies manual on maintaining confidentiality and security) and Hartford (CAREWare Confidentiality User Agreement and Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Statement)—the latter being developed by Hartford’s Part A program, which happily modified materials obtained from fellow EMAs and TGAs

Part C Web site added to Ryan White Community: University of Chicago at Peoria.

Face of Ryan White: Washington State’s Dr. Lara Strick, the Northwest AETC Corrections Program Director, trains providers working with incarcerated populations living with HIV/AIDS. See AETC Network News to learn about their prison-based preceptorship, corrections-specific case study in the HIV Web Study, and Dr. Strick’s five tips for serving incarcerated persons.

Sharing TA Tools. Learn how contributions from grantees, HRSA/HAB staff, and other sources have helped the TARGET Center’s TA materials collection grow from fewer than 50 items in 2003 to well over 500 today.

HRSA and HAB are using New Media. HRSA on Facebook. HRSA on YouTube. HRSA on MySpace. Ryan White Care on Twitter.

SYNChronicity, A National Meeting Connecting HIV and Health Networks: August 7-9, Washington. Hosted by HealthHIV with support from HRSA/HAB. Scholarships are available.

TARGET Center Links Updated

Quality Academy enhancements galore--health literacy, cultural competence, how to make Excel graphs, quality improvement in non-clinical services, select tutorials in Spanish, and more.

Tips for HIV Clinicians Working with Meth Users. Developed by the Pacific AETC and Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center.