Report
Process of Identifying Measures and Data Elements for the HRSA School-Based Telehealth Network Grant Program
RTRC Research & Policy Brief
Rural Telehealth Research Center
05/2020
DOI: 10.17077/rep.006748
Abstract
To demonstrate how telehealth can expand access to and coordinate and improve the quality of healthcare services offered in schools, the Health Resources and Services Administration Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Office for the Advancement of Telehealth awarded grants to 21 organizations across the country for the School-Based Telehealth Network Grant Program (SB TNGP) in September 2016. Grants were targeted to rural, frontier, and underserved communities providing telehealth services for school children, with a particular focus on five clinical areas: asthma, behavioral health, diabetes, healthy weight, and oral health. As part of this initiative, FORHP funded the Rural Telehealth Research Center to identify a set of measures for the SB TNGP. The principal activities for this project included developing an inventory of potential SB TNGP measures, defining a methodology for evaluating this inventory of measures to determine which were most relevant and applicable for evaluating the SB TNGP initiative, applying the methodology to identify a final list of measures, translating the measures into data elements, and creating a dictionary and tool that could be used to systematically collect and report data by SB TNGP grantees. The goal of the project was to identify a common set of measures that could be collected from each of the grantees on all of their grant-funded telehealth encounters for a cross-grantee assessment of school-based telehealth services, utilization, process, and outcomes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Process of Identifying Measures and Data Elements for the HRSA School-Based Telehealth Network Grant Program
- Creators
- Marcia M Ward - University of IowaKimberley Fox - University of Southern MaineKimberly Merchant - University of IowaAmanda Burgess - University of Southern MaineFred Ullrich - University of IowaKaren Pearson - University of Southern MaineGeorge Shaler - University of Southern MaineChristopher Shea - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSteve NorthCarlos Mena
- Resource Type
- Report
- Publication Details
- RTRC Research & Policy Brief
- DOI
- 10.17077/rep.006748
- Publisher
- Rural Telehealth Research Center; Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Number of pages
- 7 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2020 the authors
- Grants
- Rural Telehealth Research Center (2015-20), UICRH29074, Health Resources and Services Administration (United States, Rockville) - HRSA
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2020
- Academic Unit
- Rural Telehealth Research Center; Health Management and Policy; Biostatistics
- Record Identifier
- 9985015187402771
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