Beyond EHRs
To achieve meaningful use consistently over the five years of the incentives and to advance toward quality and population health management, practices will be turning to implement supplemental technologies in conjunction with their EHRs.
These may include:
- Electronic registries
- Multiple outreach and communications methods
- Software that can calculate the metrics required for quality reporting
What all of these methodologies have in common is that they automate the work of monitoring, educating and maintaining contact with the patient population. At a time when primary-care providers are in short supply and stretched thin, this automation performs routine, repetitive work in the background, freeing doctors and nurses to focus on providing quality care.
By combining EHRs with these automated approaches, physicians can show meaningful use, qualify for medical home certification, obtain pay for performance incentives and prepare themselves for the value-based reimbursement systems that are down the road.
By giving care teams real-time data on the services that patients need when they’re in the office, these methods empower physicians and other clinicians to improve quality and engage in productive conversations with patients about how they can maintain or restore their health.
Phytel Insight™ provides a quality lens, delivering metrics that let you evaluate your organization’s effectiveness
Features
- Displays an integrated quality dashboard
- Enables oversight of chronic and preventive care conditions
- Lets you gauge practice effectiveness across facilities and providers
Phytel Coordinate™ automates your care management process empowering your care team to take action
Features
- Identify care gaps and implement the most appropriate intervention
- Produce worklists to track and manage quality measures and initiatives
- Generate pre-visit reporting to identify care opportunities before each encounter
Phytel Outreach™ is an automated service that determines the need for recommended care and communicates to patients according to evidence-based guidelines.
Features
- Identify patients due for recommended care
- Automatically notify patients through automated messaging
- Track patient response and monitor compliance