Health Care Innovations Exchange: Dental Health Programs for Underserved Populations

Health Care Innovations Exchange: Dental Health Programs for Underserved Populations

   February 27, 2013       SNap(R) Group

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New Issue Focuses on Dental Health Programs for Underserved Populations The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the February 27 issue of the Health Care Innovations Exchange (http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov). The featured Innovations describe three programs that used innovative strategies to provide needed dental care to underserved populations. The featured QualityTools include a toolkit to help dentists provide dental care to underserved children in their community, a guide to establishing dental homes and providing education to at-risk children, and a comprehensive oral health curriculum for providers. Read more innovation profiles and tools related to dental health care for underserved populations (http://go.usa.gov/2c7k) on the Innovations Exchange Web site, which contains more than 750 searchable innovations and 1,500 QualityTools. Spotlight: New Perspective How To Think About Evidence When Deciding Whether To Adopt an Innovation http://go.usa.gov/2xVJ by Brian S. Mittman, PhD, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Kaiser Permanente Southern California; John Øvretveit, PhD, Karolinska Institute; Paul Plsek, MS, Paul E. Plsek & Associates; Susanne Salem-Schatz, ScD, HealthCare Quality Initiatives Events and Podcasts: February 27 TweetChat Join us on Twitter Wednesday, February 27, at 3 pm EST for our next Chat on Change: Supporting At-Risk LGBT and Homeless Youth with Innovator Lara Brooks from the Broadway Youth Center in Chicago. Visit the Event page for more information about the TweetChat: http://go.usa.gov/2cAC. April 9 Web Event Join the Innovations Exchange on Tuesday, April 9, from 1 to 2 pm EST for a free Web event titled Promoting the Spread of Health Care Innovations. For more information about this event and to register, visit the Event page: http://go.usa.gov/2xm4. Use the My Innovations feature http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/accounts/createAccount.aspx to save your favorite subjects and receive e-mail alerts when new content is published within your areas of interest. New features for mobile users are available. Click the menu button in the upper right of our mobile site to view videos and browse by subject. New issues of the Innovations Exchange are published biweekly on Wednesdays. Please contact us at info@innovations.ahrq.gov with any questions or comments. Follow the Innovations Exchange (AHRQIX) on Twitter with this hyperlink: http://www.twitter.com/ahrqix.