Through our Best Practice Committee, Connect Oregon, and HIT Commons, we support collaboration, guidance, reporting, and advance technical solutions statewide to promote whole-person care.
The committee is chartered to recommend and execute community and statewide evidence based best practice strategies. These best practice strategies are aimed at improving or enhancing healthcare quality, value, efficiency, patient/member outcomes, equity, and/or provider satisfaction.
This statewide network unites healthcare and social service providers, fostering a coordinated approach to address individuals’ social health. Partners collaborate on a common technology platform, exchanging electronic closed-loop referrals to enhance community health.
Founded in 2018, HIT Commons is a public/private governance model building on collaborative success. The model, inspired by the EDIE governance model, coordinates, standardizes, and supports statewide HIT efforts in Oregon.
OCEP conference and OUD Toolkit
Oregon College of Emergency Physicians (OCEP) recently held their 40th annual Winter Conference in Sunriver, which was attended by emergency physicians, nurses, and EMS professionals from across the state. OHLC participated as a non-profit exhibitor to promote best practice treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in Oregon Emergency Departments (ED). OHLC staff was on hand to distribute our OUD Treatment Toolkit for EDs, talk to ED providers about their experiences, advances, and challenges in building OUD treatment programs, and offer resources and ideas for strengthening OUD treatment workflows. OHLC exhibited alongside OHSU’s ECHO team, who was promoting a new education series for ED staff on providing care for patients with substance use disorder. Together, OHLC and ECHO offered crucial information to EDs who are looking to improve addiction medicine care in Oregon.
