How To Improve Clinical Workflow:4 Cool Tips

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2. Introduction • Improving clinical workflow may be a challenging task for today’s healthcare providers, particularly when industry regulations such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) are considered. • But there are many opportunities to help practice in improving their workflow. • So here a hospital should find a smart way to streamline clinical workflow to save time and ultimately improve patient satisfaction.

3. Why Improving Clinical Workflow Is Important? • It has been analyzed that nearly 40% of clinical office work involves repetitive tasks, more effort, and the clinicians are often spending most of their time on inefficient processes. • So improving clinical workflow eliminates repetitive works, saves more time, and allows healthcare practices to use their resources more efficiently to deliver better care for patients.

4. What May Affect The Efficient Clinical Workflow Process? • According to a recent survey, the American Society for Quality (ASQ) reported that, for nearly 78% of healthcare quality experts, improved clinical workflow and efficiency are the two primary keys to boosting health information technology quality.  • The usability of ineffective technologies for documentation and communication may be one of the reasons for efficient workflows.

5. 4 Super Cool Tips To Improve Clinical Workflow

6. 1. EHR Helps You To Improve Clinical Workflow • EHR digitalize the patient health records and makes them available to the healthcare providers to access them anytime they want with full security. • EHR not only benefits healthcare providers with better health outcomes but also benefits patients by minimizing their healthcare costs with easy to use EHR features. • Overall,EHRimplementation results in higher patient engagement and enhanced care coordination which also helps to improve clinical workflow.

7. 2. Patient Intake Process • Doctors can instruct patients to handle most of their administrative tasks before their next appointment. That way, a doctor can ensure a patient shows up prepared to make the consultation session as seamless as possible. • Caregivers can instruct patients to fill an online patient intake form that allows them to ask all necessary questions before they make their appointment. • You can include any information you need to speed up treatment and ensure quality healthcare.

8. 3. Updating Communications Systems • 80% of hospitals are still using fax machines, and email for communicating critical information. • These old techniques may cause frustration among doctors, nurses, and other hospital employees and result in a considerable amount of wasted time. • Secure text messaging is much faster than paging, faxing, and email.

9. 4. Adopting AI To Improve Workflow • AI has the potential to complete clinical documentation tasks with greater efficiency, such as extracting relevant information from a physician’s free-text narrative and inserting it into appropriate structured data fields. • AI could replace manual data-collection processes by reviewing clinical documents and extracting information for quality reports and to populate missing data fields, saving physicians hours of work every week.

10. Conclusion • By implementing these super cool tips, the clinical workflow of your healthcare practice will be more efficient than ever. • You’ll be surprised to see how much time and resources you are saving and results with better healthcare outcomes and increased productivity.

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