Prerequisites: Implementation 101
Objectives:
- Learn the keys to successfully redesigning the workflow in your practice
- Learn how to anaylze and enhance patient flow in your practice
- Learn how the flow of information affects your overall workflow
Implementation 201 - Workflow & Redesign
Overview
-- The electronic health record, implemented properly, will automate information flow in the family physician office.
Keys to Success
-- The right technology is only half the secret to successfully implementiong an EHR. Other factors having to do with how your office functions are critical as you redesign what you do from top to bottom.
Enhancing Patient Flow
-- The electronic health record acts as a catalyst for office workflow. Demographic and clinical information is available throughout the office and can be accessed real-time by a range of different staff. This enables and actually mandates a completely new way of working.
Enhancing Information Flow
-- The principal goal when implementing a health information technology solution in the office is to transition to a system that exhibits continuous flow of information through the office.
AAFP Quality Initiative
-- The AAFP Quality Initiative is the Academy's effort to establish the discipline of family medicine as the premier medical discipline for quality health care.