Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCNs) are collaborative groups of health centers dedicated to quality and performance improvement as related to health information technology (HIT). The Missouri Quality Improvement Network (MOQuIN)/Health Center Controlled Network (HCCN) has been an HCCN grantee funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) since 2010. MOQuIN supports health centers in leveraging HIT and data to deliver high quality, culturally competent, equitable, and comprehensive primary health care, with a specific focus on improvements in:
What We Do
MOQuIN convenes peer groups of clinical, quality and data team members to support the needs of our participating health centers and to offer a platform to share best practices, work on resolutions to issues and to improve patient outcomes through peer-to-peer collaboration and technology-enabled health information exchange (HIE) initiatives.
MOQuIN provides technical assistance and trainings on relevant initiatives, i.e. use of analytics reports, roll out of Evidence Based Care tools (guidelines, protocols and clinical decision support tools), and topic specific sessions based on the ever-changing environment.
Who We Serve
Currently, twenty-five (HCCN) MOQuIN member health centers participate in the HCCN Program.
Project Timelines
August 1, 2022 - July 31, 2025 (#U86CS45884)
August 1, 2022 - April 30, 2024 (#HQCCS41876)
Project Partners
Strategic Partners
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Missouri Primary Care Association (MPCA)
National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
Health Information Technology Evaluation & Quality Center (HITEQ)
Focus Areas
Goal A: Improving Patient and Provider Experience
- Use Health IT to Facilitate Patients’ Access to Their Person Health Information
- Using Health IT to Improve Engagement of Patients with Health Care Teams
- Improve Health IT Usability to Minimize Provider Burden
Goal B: Advancing Interoperability
- Complete a Security Risk Analysis and Have a Breach Mitigation and Response Plan
- Increasing Continuity of Care by Making new Health Information Exchange connections
- Consolidating Clinical and Non Clinical Data to Optimize Care Coordination and Workflows
Goal C: Use of Data To Enhance Value
- Improve Capacity for Data Standardization, Management & Analysis
- Supporting Health Centers Coordinated, Effective Interventions using Aggregate and Patient Level Data on Social risk Factors
- Inform Delivery of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment and Patient Access
Funders: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U86CS45884, Health Center Controlled Networks, for $915,817.. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.