Rhode Island Beacon Community
The Rhode Island Beacon Community aims to improve the quality, safety, and value of health care in the state, leading to better overall health. To achieve these aims, the Rhode Island Quality Institute will utilize existing and well-established care delivery initiatives combined with implementing health information technology that facilitates care delivery redesign. Specifically, this Beacon Community will achieve four objectives:
- Enhance the quality of care provided to patients with diabetes by encouraging adherence to nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines and the patient-centered medical home model
- Reduce preventable hospital and emergency department use
- Reduce the impact of tobacco use on the health of the state's population
- Reduce the impact of undiagnosed, untreated depression through increased screening
Our approach was to go into a setting and infuse it with electronic technologies so we can begin to treat patients in the best possible way.
–Laura Adams, Rhode Island Beacon Community
