摘要
Maintaining continuous health insurance coverage is important.With recent expansions in access to coverage in the United States after“Obamacare,”primary care teams have a new role in helping to track and improve coverage rates and to provide outreach to patients.We describe efforts to longitudinally track health insurance rates using data from the electronic health record(EHR)of a primary care network and to use these data to support practice-based insurance outreach and assistance.Although we highlight a few examples from one network,we believe there is great potential for doing this type of work in a broad range of family medicine and community health clinics that provide continuity of care.By partnering with researchers through practice-based research networks and other similar collaboratives,primary care practices can greatly expand the use of EHR data and EHR-based tools targeting improvements in health insurance and quality health care.
基金
National Institutes of Health,National Cancer Institute(R01CA181452 and R01CA204267)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality(R01HS024270)
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(U18DP006116)
the Oregon Health and Science University Department of Family Medicine。