Health Screening Tracking Systems

What Works: Effective Practices for Office-based CareHealth Screening Guidelines
Health Screening Tracking Systems

Recommendation: The practice has a system to monitor and track health screenings.

 Effective Practice
The MAs and the nursing staff updating the snap shot summary screen with theinformation from the visit notes, consult information, and outside testing results at the end of the encounter.
Benefits:
  • Facilitates identification of due health screenings.
  • Allows for patient outreach at any point when the patient intersects the system.
  • Prevents episodic patients from slipping through the cracks.



 Effective Practice
LMR to do function is used to track and monitor routine screening and follow-up of abnormal screening results.
Benefits:
  • Facilitates identification of due health screenings.
  • Reduces possibility of human error.
In practice at: Office of Dr. Chaoui (NSMC), Harbor Medical Group Infectious Disease (NSMC), Office of Dr. Skowronski (NSMC), Office of Dr. Macomber (NSMC), North Shore Medical Group (NSMC), Puritan Medical Center (NSMC)


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