Effective forms management improves healthcare data quality

When was the last time you thought about the forms strategy in your organization? Most of us think about forms as a clerical activity but proper management of patient forms drives important clinical and business initiatives such as patient satisfaction, patient quality scores, and care coordination analytics. With so much emphasis in healthcare put on collecting quality data, information exchange, analytics, patient generated health data, and more, it’s surprising how little attention is put on the way this important information is collected. Forms remain an important method of collecting structured information in healthcare – and patients expect to be able to fill them out on their mobile phones before they get to their doctor’s office, while in the office, or even afterwards.  In fact, the demand for more granular data from the patient in remote locations as well as in healthcare facilities is only growing as regulations and smart IT systems require very specific data from the patient that cannot be obtained in any other way.  A patient facing form is the most common way of collecting this data because “seamless integration” between multiple systems, workflows, stakeholders, and institutions remains elusive. Healthcare organizations need to collect structured data in administrative forms, institutional forms, and clinical forms – across devices and locations.  Given the importance of form data, it’s time for organizations to look at forms as more than just ...
Source: The Healthcare IT Guy - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Uncategorized document workflow technology Electronic health records forms management tools forms solutions forms technology Source Type: blogs