EHRs have an incredible opportunity to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors, but in their current state they are doing more to frustrate providers than improve care. Here we'll review ideas to optimize EHR workflow to improve patient safety and reduce physician frustration.
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Presenter
Dan Sullivan, MD, JD, FACEP
Dr. Sullivan is the President and
CEO of The Sullivan Group, a
leader in risk management, patient
safety and quality improvement
solutions for healthcare providers.
Dr. Sullivan is a board certified
Emergency Medicine physician
and a Fellow in the American
College of Emergency Physicians
(ACEP).
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Presenter
Dan Sullivan, MD, JD, FACEP
Dr. Sullivan is an expert in building
risk management, patient safety,
and evidence-based medicine
seamlessly inside of electronic
medical records. The Sullivan
Group’s EMR Risk Management
Module is currently in place in over
500 U.S. hospitals.
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Learning Objectives
Create an awareness of the current “State of
the Union” as it applies to patient safety and
practitioner frustration when using EHR/EMRs
Understand the impact
of EHR technology on
patient care.
Share ideas on
optimizing EMR/EHR
workflow to improve
safety and reduce
practitioner frustration.
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Participants:
57 U.S. physicians in family medicine, internal
medicine, cardiology, and orthopedics who
were observed for 430 hours; 21 of them also
completed after-hours diaries.
Measurements:
Proportions of time spent on 4 activities (direct
clinical face time, electronic health record [EHR]
and desk work, administrative tasks, and other
tasks) and self-reported after-hours work.
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Results:
During the office day, physicians spent 27.0%
of their total time on direct clinical face-time with
patients and 49.2% of their time on EHR and desk
work.
The 21 physicians who completed after-hours
diaries reported 1 to 2 hours of after-hours work
each night, devoted mostly to EHR tasks.
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American Health Information
Management Association (AHIMA)
according to a September AHIMA report.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ehr-copy-paste-better-think-twice
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It has become such a compliance and payment
problem that the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
together with Attorney General Eric Holder wrote
a letter last year to industry medical groups
underscoring the seriousness of doctors "gaming
the system, possibly to obtain
payments to which they
are not entitled."
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Why was the HITECH Act Created?
The Health Information Technology for Economic and
Clinical Health Act (HITECH) legislation was created
in 2009 to stimulate the adoption of electronic health
records (EHR) and supporting technology in the
United States.
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Meaningful Use Definition &
Objectives
Meaningful Use Defined
Meaningful use is using certified electronic health
record (EHR) technology to:
Improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce
health disparities
Engage patients and family
Improve care coordination, and population
and public health
Maintain privacy and security of patient health
information
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Vital Signs Re-Evaluation
National Profile
We looked at vital signs in 90,000 patients.
9,000 were very abnormal.
16% of patients with very abnormal vital signs
are discharged without a single repeat.
This is a common finding in
failure to diagnose cases.
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Vital Signs Re-Evaluation
National Profile
We looked at vital signs in 90,000 patients.
9,000 were very abnormal.
16% of patients with very abnormal vital signs
are discharged without a single repeat.
This is a common finding in
failure to diagnose cases.
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Vital Signs Re-Evaluation
National Profile
We looked at vital signs in 90,000 patients.
9,000 were very abnormal.
16% of patients with very abnormal vital signs
are discharged without a single repeat.
This is a common finding in
failure to diagnose cases. cases.
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Vital Signs Re-Evaluation
National Profile
We looked at vital signs in 90,000 patients.
9,000 were very abnormal.
16% of patients with very abnormal vital signs
are discharged without a single repeat.
This is a common finding in
failure to diagnose cases.
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Kawasaki’s Syndrome
History of fever from caregiver (HPI)
Cervical adenopathy (PE neck)
Mucous membrane changes:
lips, tongue (PE HEENT)
Changes in the peripheral
extremities: swelling,
desquamation (PE extremities)
Rash on the trunk (PE skin)
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Summary
Human factors engineering is one of many
opportunities to impact the practitioner/
patient experience.
Correctly applied, it can improve quality
and safety and reduce medical errors.
Correctly applied, it can improve practitioner
satisfaction and reduce frustration.
It’s the future; let’s get there ASAP.
It’s an exciting ride and the sky is the limit!
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Questions?
Please contact Brant Roth at
broth@thesullivangroup.com for information
about TSG’s RSQ® Solutions.
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Bermuda brokers for
more information about
the XL Catlin-TSG partnership.
“Thank you for joining us, today’s webinar topic is Improving Diagnosis Through Human Factors Engineering, presented by Dr. Dan Sullivan, President & CEO of The Sullivan Group, the leading provider of risk management, patient safety and quality improvement solutions for healthcare providers.”