Transcript My Visit - The Institute for Family Health

My Visit
After the Visit –
A Summary for the Patient:
Making it Meaningful
Sarah C. Nosal, MD
Institute for Family Health
Meaningful Use
Core Set Objective
Provide clinical summaries for
patients for each office visit
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
Benefits of the
After Visit Summary
Patient Engagement
Improved
understanding of
health issues &
treatment plans
Improved adherence
Better outcomes
Communication
Reference for patients
& other providers
Point-of-Care resource
& personal health info
for those without ready
access to computers
Pre-Visit Planning
Planning for the
next visit
“To Do” list for
patient
Goals and follow
up
Key Components of the AVS
Maintain an up-to-date problem list
of current and active diagnoses
*will add improved problem list for presentation
Maintain active
medication list
To do list
Patient friendly results
Patient Instructions –
Specific Goals
Patient Instructions –
Health Education
Patient Instructions –
Identifying Barriers &
Committing to Change
*this may not be most up
to date text – well
review and update prior
to presentation
Overcoming
Provider Resistance
Getting the provider to push the
button…
*hoping to get PULSE data from Lurio on providers
printing out AVS (graph)
Future Directions
Need
GENERIC
and
NAME
BRANDs of
medications
listed
Health Literacy
level still too
high…
En Español…
Questions?
Ideas?