APA Health Care and Life Sciences

Performance Improvement and Best Practices

Describe the relationship between provider performance and patient outcomes.
3.    Most physicians feel as if EHRs do not save them time. What is your response to this?
a.    Were EHRs designed to save time in the healthcare documentation process?
b.    If not, what was the EHR designed to do? Be thorough in your response.

4.    When implementing organization wide PI initiatives, many employees and physicians take the attitude of that wont work here. How would you respond in reference to the use of clinical decision support systems?
5.    Describe the relationship between provider performance and patient outcomes.
6.    Establish the use of EHR CDS functions as a best practice.
7.    Produce best practices based on application of the performance improvement model. Use your findings in the sample records and PI process, to support your best practices.