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Communication Committee

Communication Committee Membership

  • Kathryn Cheek, MD; Chair, Columbus
  • Barbara Menchan, MD, Community Member
  • Benita Bowers, GaHIN
  • Ashley Cheek, MD, Savannah
  • Theresia Edgar, GaHIN
  • Denise Hines, GaHIN
  • Barbara Menchan, MD, Community Member
  • Chad Purcell, DCH
  • Carmen Hughes
  • Liz Hanson, GaHIN
  • Shane Savage, MD, Amerigroup
  • Vanderlyn Sewell, MD, Amerigroup
  • Noah Shatz, Hybridge
  • Jeffeory White, MD, Dalton

Communication Committee Goals

Goal Description
  1. Participate with Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN) to increase access to data by physicians with data quality and consistency
    • Improvement on “PHIC Top Priorities” list
    • Communicate with the providers the ADT alerts are live
    • Continue Cross-over Sessions
  2. Participate with Department of Public Health
  3. Participate with Department of Community Health
  4. Partner with Resilient Georgia
  5. Assist in the development/dissemination of an improvement plan to educate providers regarding the responsibilities of the first physician to see an Amerigroup/foster care patient to ensure proper care going forward for the patient.
  6. Ensure that the CMO provider that covers the patients in the foster care program be fully ready to participate GaHIN for exchange of data.
  7. Collaborate with Quality Improvement Committee to disseminate the Asthma Project results throughout the state.
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