New Issue Focuses on

HIV Screening and Care for HIV-Positive Patients

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the April 10 issue of the Health Care Innovations Exchange (http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov).

The featured Innovations describe a program that integrates HIV screening into routine care at community health centers, a New York State law that promotes HIV testing in routine care, and a program that provides proactive anal cancer screening to HIV-positive patients, who are at high risk of anal cancer.
The featured QualityTools include information, intake forms, and educational materials for HIV-related health care, housing, and supportive service providers; and resources for use by State health departments to increase HIV testing on a statewide level.
Read more innovation profiles and tools related to HIV screening (http://go.usa.gov/Tcf5) and care for HIV-positive patients (http://go.usa.gov/TcfH) on the Innovations Exchange Web site, which contains more than 775 searchable innovations and 1,525 QualityTools.

Spotlight:

New PerspectiveThe U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Will Soon Issue a Final Recommendation on HIV Screening for Adolescents and Adults: A Conversation With USPSTF Member Douglas K. Owens, MD, MS (http://go.usa.gov/TCRY)
New AHRQ ToolThe Clinical–Community Relationships Measures Atlas (http://go.usa.gov/TaT4) provides a measurement framework and listing of existing measures of clinical–community relationships and is intended to support research and evaluation in the field.
Updated Page
Visit our updated page, Building Relationships Between Clinical Practices and the Community To Improve Care (http://go.usa.gov/2Suk), for new resources related to clinical–community relationships.

Events and Podcasts:

Upcoming Web Event Series
The Innovations Exchange announces a new Web event series (http://go.usa.gov/2SuP) designed to share experiences and lessons learned in putting accountable care organization and patient-centered medical home principles into practice.
Join us on Thursday, April 25, from 1 to 2 pm ET for the first event in the series, titled Payment Models That Support Medical Home and Accountable Care Organization Principles: Maryland’s Experience. For more information and to register, visit the Event page: http://go.usa.gov/2Suz

Save the date—Thursday, May 9, 1 to 2 pm ET—for the second in this series: A Close Look at Care Coordination Within Patient-Centered Medical Homes: West Virginia’s Experience. For more information, visit the Event page: http://go.usa.gov/TCRY

Thank you for participating!
Thank you for joining us on April 9 for the Web event titled Promoting the Spread of Health Care Innovations. Event materials will be available soon.

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