What You Should Do
- Get a primary care provider to help you stay on top of your shots, get a physical and stay well;
- Be cautious with using medications to deal with pain;
- Keep track of your medical records;
- Learn how to best manage your chronic condition if you have one;
- Check on the quality of home health agencies, hospitals, and nursing homes;
- Seek out a Community Health Center for care, particularly if you are concerned about how to pay for care;
What We Do
- License doctors, dentists and a range of health professionals to ensure that healthcare delivery is professional and effective;
- Facilitate the transition to a new practice when another one closes;
- Help provide for the continuity of care for patients that transition between various healthcare settings;
- Monitor the frequency of healthcare-acquired infections at health facilities;
- Collect health insurance claims data to understand healthcare utilization, cost, and quality;
- Develop "meaningful use capacity" to improve the appropriate sharing of medical information;
- Support patient-centered medical homes;
- Monitor the quality of home health, nursing home, and hospital healthcare, and the use of electronic records by physicians;
- Develop recommendations for healthcare screening, including childhood vision screening;
- Set guidelines for the use of social media,and Telemedicine in medical practices.
Notice for Healthcare Professionals
Best Practices Under RI's Confidentiality of Health Care Communications & Information Act
