ABSTRACT
The Massachusetts General Hospital Physicians Organization (MGPO) has implemented physician incentives to drive timely entry of notes into the outpatient electronic health record. Data from the Partners Quality Data Warehouse (QDW) were used to refine and produce a note completion metric and to create reports. This initiative has led to a decrease in the average time to complete a note from 197 to 90 hours, in less than a year.
Subject(s)
Efficiency, Organizational/economics , Medical History Taking/statistics & numerical data , Medical Records Systems, Computerized/economics , Physician Incentive Plans/economics , Physicians/economics , Workflow , Workload/statistics & numerical data , Boston , Medical Records Systems, Computerized/statistics & numerical data , Workload/economicsABSTRACT
Frequent updates and complexity of vaccination schedules can make it difficult for pediatric practices to ensure adherence to immunization guidelines. To address this problem, Partners HealthCare System (PHS) has created a quality reporting utility to manage pediatric immunizations and to support quality improvement initiatives. The rules-based solution uses reference database tables to model the logic for each vaccine.