The Greater Cincinnati Beacon Community (GCBC) partners are committed to the long-term goals of improving quality, value, and population health and achieving meaningful use of health information technology (health IT)/health information exchange (HIE) in Greater Cincinnati, including:
Achieving meaningful and improved health care quality, safety, cost-efficiency, and reduced health disparities for patients with pediatric asthma and adult diabetes
Integrating and implementing advanced health IT/HIE capabilities and proven clinical transformation methods across the continuum of care
Leveraging access to electronic data and advanced electronic health records adoption to coordinate care teams across the community to support effective management of diabetes and pediatric asthma
In particular, the GCBC will apply health IT to improvements in pediatric asthma and diabetes care, reductions in preventable emergency department visits and hospital readmissions, reductions in diabetes care costs, improvements in smoking cessation and immunization rates, and significant numbers of providers achieving meaningful use.
Visit healthIT.gov to learn more about how health IT is helping patients, doctors, and stakeholders get the information they need, empowering them to make changes, and improving the nation's health.
