District of Columbia Health Informatics advocates for patients’ health equity in technology, access, and digital health literacy.
DCHI supports patients, providers, and app developers to exchange medical records electronically. DCHI does our part by performing Business Advisory Services, Patient Engagement Support Services, and EHR Charting System Services.
Get the subject matter expertise you need for your operational planning, patient engagement, or EHR charting system from a small, minority, and Washington, DC based professional. Choosing DCHI to support your organization can help you achieve your operational targets and supplier diversity goals more quickly.
Services
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Providing Consultation and Advice: Providing impressions, guidance and expert recommendations to you, your employees, or your suppliers on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used in the context of your current and planned operations (Such as application, proposal, grant, contract, or other document review)
Process and Procedure / Workflow Consulting Services
Business Intelligence Consulting
New Business Start-Up Consulting
Expert Witness Services
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Navigate patient portals and provide portal support to clinicians, staff, volunteers, students, and their patients
Patient Portal Usage Analysis, Reporting, and Adoption Support
Specialty Clinical Application, Patient Kiosk, or Other peripheral integration
Patient Medical Records Access Rights Advocacy
Digital Patient Engagement Content Creation
Public PHR app consumer reviews: Assess an application’s alignment with statutory, regulatory, accreditation, professional organization, and data standards. Assess an application’s privacy, security, interoperability, accessibility, and consumer/user experience.
Personal Health Record Application UX / UI Subject Matter Expertise
Personal Health Record Application Assessment
Patient Generated Data, SOGI, and SDOH Workflow Integration Support
Support workflow design and process improvement activities
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EHR Configuration and Implementation Support
Coordinate document control by creating, revising, and standardizing templates and forms
Health Information Process or Workflow documentation, evaluation, and improvement
Patient Portal Support to Providers, Staff, Volunteers, and Patients
Patient Portal Usage Analysis, Reporting, and Adoption Support
Specialty Clinical Application, Patient Kiosk, or Other peripheral integration
Personal Health Record Banking Support
Christopher Cummings
Management Consultant
Christopher served 23 years of technical and administrative support handling sensitive data in banking, public health, medical device manufacturing, telecommunications, health IT consulting, and 3 community clinics (FQHCs). In 2012 ASQ certified him for Six Sigma Green Belt; in 2018 NHA certified him as an Electronic Health Records Specialist. With DCHI, Christopher advocates for patients health equity in technology, medical records access, and digital health literacy. He now supports patients, providers, and app developers to securely obtain and share medical records electronically.