Performance Measure Definitions
The site/entity is staffed by geneticists who apply genetics in the delivery of medical care, including evidence-based practices on the causes and inheritance of genetic disorders, and their diagnosis and management.
Related Performance Measure: 4
Source of the Definition: The definition is adapted from the journal, Nature.
https://www.nature.com/subjects/medical-genetics
Primary care often involves first-contact care for people with an undiagnosed symptom, sign, or health concern. It is defined as care for individuals which is not organ- or problem- specific; longitudinal or continuous care; and with responsibility for coordinating other health services related to a patient’s care. It is care often provided by general internists, who are particularly well equipped to provide preventive care and diagnose and manage disease in a primary care setting.
Related Performance Measure: 4
Source of the Definition: The definition is adapted from the American College of Physicians
https://www.acponline.org
Includes:
- National meetings
- Regional meetings
- State/Local meetings
- External Workgroups/advisory committees/steering committees
- Presentations given to internal workgroups/advisory committees/state teams cannot be not count
- Poster presentations should be counted from:
- National
- Regional
- State/Local
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Continuing medical education consists of educational activities which serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession.
Related Performance Measure: 1A, 3
Count only modules or recorded webinars/training that RGN developed or directly-supported and are available for public access on RGN-supported website (e.g. recorded ECHO sessions, webinar sessions).
For password-protected websites/webpages, resources can be counted when anyone can sign up for an account. Password-protect websites/webpages meant for internal use cannot be counted.
For example: MGPN resources can be counted. Resources developed for the internal workgroups/teams of a RGN and cannot be counted.
Note: Recorded presentations cannot be counted in the same funding year. A recorded presentation/webinar can be counted in subsequent funding years as long as the webinar is on an RGN-supported websites. Presentation recordings on websites outside of the system are not counted.
Recorded educational modules: If CME is offered and there is registration information, it will be counted under 1A.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
The process of systematically teaching individuals to acquire and improve job-related skills and knowledge.
Related Performance Measure: 1A
Source of the Definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/education
When services are provided through RGN-support to connect individuals/families to genetic services (healthcare or other support services relating to the patient’s genetic conditions) outside of the healthcare system through a one-on-one communication.
Related Performance Measure: 2B
Related Performance Measure: 2A
Related Performance Measure: 1A, 3
Source of the Definition: Regional Genetic Service Center Models Recommendation Brief March 31, 2016 Page 4
The number of unique accounts that saw any of your posts or stories at least once.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Source of the Definition: https://business.facebook.com/business/help/665980910626369
Following someone on LinkedIn allows you to see the person’s posts and articles on your homepage without being connected to them.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Source of the Definition: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/32504/similarities-and-differences-between-following-and-connecting?lang=en
The number of times each update is visible for at least 300 milliseconds with at least 50% in view on a (signed in) member’s device screen or browser window.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Source of the Definition: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/8261/view-update-analytics-for-your-linkedin-page?lang=en
A seminar or other presentation that takes place on the internet, allowing participants in different locations to see and hear the presenter, ask questions, and sometimes answer polls.
Related Performance Measure: 1A
Source of the Definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/webinar
Activities are performed continuously with requirements at specified intervals throughout the 10-Year cycle and are grouped into four parts:
- Professionalism and Professional Standing
- Lifelong learning and self-assessment
- Assessment of Knowledge,
- Judgement and Skills
- Improvement in Medical Practice
Related Performance Measure: 1A,3
Source of the Definition: http://www.abmgg.org/moc/moc_progoverview.html
Areas or populations designated by HRSA/HPSA as having too few primary care providers, high infant mortality, high poverty or a high elderly population. recipients, and rural communities. Individuals who reside an MUA zip code (as defined by HRSA) are considered medically underserved.
Related Performance Measure: 1A,1B, 2A, 2B, 3, 4, 5
Source of the Definition: FOA HRSA-17-082 Page i footnote 1
http://www.hrsa.gov/shortage/find.html
Includes books, book chapters, electronic products (DVDs, audio, videotapes), doctoral dissertations, academic course development, reports and monographs (includes policy briefs and best practices reports).
If your resource does not fall into any of the other categories, discuss the specific product with NCC (who will consult with HRSA).
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Count those that are not available electronically and were not counted in web-based product, (e.g., printed products).
Note: Includes unique flyers handed out at in-person meetings. It is a count of the number of flyers, not how many flyers are handed out. If the flyer is available online and counted as a web-based resource, it is not counted.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Related Performance Measure: 4
A physician (M.D. – Medical Doctor or D.O. – Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine), nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist or physician assistant, as allowed under state law, who provides, coordinates or helps a patient access a range of health care services.
Related Performance Measure: 1A, 3
Source of the Definition: https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/primary-care-provider/
Publication must be RGN-supported (includes the funding acknowledgment language):
- For collaborative papers across the system, the lead RGN, NCC, or Family Center gets to count the publication.
- For partnerships outside of the system, papers can be counted when the RGN author’s time is supported by the RGN.
- Examples: Journal articles in Genetics in Medicine, Journal of Genetic Counseling, etc.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Support is provided by the RGN for activities through: contracts, training (includes follow-up to training), technical assistance, quality improvement, funding, purchase of equipment and supplies,memorandum of agreement or in-kind funding, education.
Related Performance Measure: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3, 4, 5
Recorded webinars count when there is a registration and include educational content (i.e. CME/CEU offerings)
A webinar is a seminar or other presentation that takes place on the internet, allowing participants in different locations to see and hear the presenter, ask questions, and sometimes answer polls.
Related Performance Measure: 1A
Source of the Definition: HRSA and https://www.dictionary.com/browse/webinar
Internal groups (workgroups, state teams, advisory committee, etc.) that include an educational component. This means that the meeting has an invited speaker (can be an RGN, NCC, or NGEFSC staff member) and has a set goal/learning objective that expands participants’ genetics or genetic service delivery knowledge. Activity updates, needs, assessment, strategic discussions, and/or information sharing do not count as education.
Please use this flow chart to determine if an event can be counted.
Related Performance Measure: 1A
Related Performance Measure: 2A
A session is the period time a user is actively engaged with your website, app, etc.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Source of the Definition: https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/#/
This variable includes views from Facebook Lives, LinkedIn Lives, and Instagram Lives. It does not include views for other types of videos on social media.
- Total Facebook Live Views includes: the highest number of concurrent viewers who viewed your live video for at least 3 seconds; and all 3 second, 15 second, and 1 minute video views, which are the number of times your videos was played for that amount of time.
- Total LinkedIn Live Views includes: the total number of views.
- Total Instagram Live Views includes: total number accounts reached.”
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Related Performance Measure: 3
Consultation between a provider and specialist at distance using either store and forward telemedicine or real time videoconferencing
Telephone calls are excluded.
Related Performance Measure: 3, 4, 5
Source of the Definition: http://thesource.americantelemed.org/resources/telemedicine-glossary
Related Performance Measure: FOA HRSA-17-082 Page i footnote 2
Source of the Definition: 3, 4, 5
Followers are people who receive your Tweets.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Source of the Definition: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/following-faqs#:~:text=Followers%20are%20people%20who%20receive,they%20log%20in%20to%20Twitter
Times a user is served a Tweet in timeline or search results.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Source of the Definition: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/using-the-tweet-activity-dashboard
Users who have initiated at least one session during the date range.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Source of the Definition: https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/#/
A standalone PDF/file, that is not a video, that RGN developed or directly supported. Includes:
- Toolkits (social media, public awareness campaigns, educational, training, etc). Each toolkit is counted as one resource.
- Example: Public Health Genetics Week social media resources (graphics, sample text posts, GIFs) count as one resource.
- Fact Sheets
- Infographics
- Algorithms
- Apps
- Podcasts
Related Performance Measure: 1B
- Count individual webpage (based on the site map) that has content on available resources and/or information relevant to program priorities.
- A webpage should have additional/new information other than the content of the resource counted above. Webpages count:
- If a webpage provides information about the RGN produced resources as well as other existing available resources. e.g. “Resource for families page on telehealth” page that has a curated list of resources on this topic
- Examples: NYMAC Telegenetics Webpage, MSRGN State-Specific Webpages
- If the webpage has embedded RGN-supported resource. (E.g. Find a clinic, Resource Repository, etc).
- A webpage does not count if:
- It duplicates the info exactly that is from a resource that was already counted.
- A webpage that has the same content of an infographic that is also available in a PDF elsewhere and that infographic was already counted above
- Example: NYMAC When to Refer to Genetics would count under PDF, not webpage.
- A landing page “Resources for providers” that lists out the sub-categories of resources and links to the subpages
- A “Project ECHO” page that just has links to all the previous recorded sessions
- General pages like About Us, Contact Us
- If a webpage provides information about the RGN produced resources as well as other existing available resources. e.g. “Resource for families page on telehealth” page that has a curated list of resources on this topic
Related Performance Measure: 1B
On YouTube a view is counted when someone watches 30 seconds of your video ad ( or the duration if it’s shorter than 30 seconds) or interacts with the ad, whichever comes first.
Related Performance Measure: 1B
Source of Definition:https://www.youtube.com/intl/en-GB/ads/resources/beginners-guide-to-video-insights-metrics/#:~:text=a%20potential%20customer.-,Views,the%20ad%2C%20whichever%20comes%20first
A system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service. The basic format consists of five digits.
Related Performance Measure: 1A, 2A, 2B, 3, 4, 5
Source of Definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_Code