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My Visit: A Summary for Patients - Making it Meaningful

Dr. Sarah C. Nosal discusses the benefits and key components of the After Visit Summary (AVS) for patients. Learn how the AVS improves patient engagement, communication, and pre-visit planning, as well as overcoming provider resistance. Discover future directions for the AVS, including the need for generic and name brand medications listed and improving health literacy levels.

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My Visit: A Summary for Patients - Making it Meaningful

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  1. My Visit After the Visit – A Summary for the Patient: Making it Meaningful Sarah C. Nosal, MD Institute for Family Health

  2. Meaningful UseCore Set Objective • Provide clinical summaries for patients for each office visit

  3. Learning Objectives • Benefits of the After Visit Summary (AVS) • Key Components of the AVS • Overcoming Provider resistance to the AVS • Future directions for the AVS

  4. Benefits of the After Visit Summary

  5. Patient Engagement • Improved understanding of health issues & treatment plans • Improved adherence • Better outcomes

  6. Communication • Reference for patients & other providers • Point-of-Care resource & personal health info for those without ready access to computers

  7. Pre-Visit Planning • Planning for the next visit • “To Do” list for patient • Goals and follow up

  8. Key Components of the AVS

  9. Maintain an up-to-date problem list of current and active diagnoses *will add improved problem list for presentation

  10. Maintain active medication list

  11. To do list • Patient friendly results

  12. Patient Instructions – Specific Goals

  13. Patient Instructions – Health Education

  14. Patient Instructions – Identifying Barriers & Committing to Change *this may not be most up to date text – well review and update prior to presentation

  15. Overcoming Provider Resistance

  16. Getting the provider to push the button…

  17. *hoping to get PULSE data from Lurio on providers printing out AVS (graph)

  18. Future Directions

  19. Need GENERIC and NAME BRANDs of medications listed

  20. Health Literacy level still too high…

  21. En Español…

  22. Questions? Ideas?

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