Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2022 Jan 1;19(1):1j. eCollection 2022 Winter.
This case study describes use of health information technology for enhanced team-based care and care coordination between primary care providers and infectious disease specialists for curing and eventually eliminating hepatitis C in West Virginia. This program, the West Virginia Hepatitis Academic Mentoring Partnership, aims to improve outcomes of West Virginians with chronic hepatitis C infection by training and supporting primary care providers to screen, diagnose, evaluate, treat, cure, and follow patients in the community rather than referring them to distant specialists with long wait times. This initiative supports health equity by increasing access to quality care in severely under-resourced rural areas. Primary care providers engage with hepatitis C experts in a web-based training and mentoring process, combined with informatics training in use of a customized Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCAP) platform for secure data tracking and bidirectional communication. This use of an informatics platform available to all partners supports shared decision-making between primary care providers and specialists, fostering a primary care learning network for improved hepatitis C care in West Virginia.
本案例研究描述了如何在西弗吉尼亚州使用健康信息技术增强基于团队的护理和初级保健提供者与传染病专家之间的护理协调，以治愈并最终消除丙型肝炎。该计划即西弗吉尼亚州肝炎学术指导伙伴关系，旨在通过培训和支持初级保健提供者对社区中的慢性丙型肝炎感染者进行筛查、诊断、评估、治疗、治愈和随访，而不是将他们转诊给等待时间长的偏远专家，从而改善西弗吉尼亚州慢性丙型肝炎感染者的治疗效果。该计划通过增加在资源严重匮乏的农村地区获得优质护理的机会，促进了健康公平。初级保健提供者通过基于网络的培训和指导过程与丙型肝炎专家合作，同时接受使用定制 Research Electronic Data Capture（REDCAP）平台进行信息学培训，以进行安全的数据跟踪和双向通信。这种为所有合作伙伴提供的信息学平台的使用支持了初级保健提供者和专家之间的共同决策，促进了初级保健学习网络的发展，从而改善了西弗吉尼亚州的丙型肝炎护理。
