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.
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,EHR implementation 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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