What's New | December 05, 2012

Using Information Systems To Promote Prevention

Many Americans do not receive recommended preventive care services, and lack of preventive care can affect health outcomes and lead to increased use of health care services.

The featured Innovations describe ways that health information technologies can be used to enhance provision of preventive services, including a program that enables standing orders for vaccinations and screenings, a system that encourages Medicare patients to schedule their Annual Wellness Visit, and an interactive preventive health record that identifies specific care needs for patients.

The featured QualityTools include a smartphone application to promote healthy weight and tools to improve adherence to guidelines for electronic and interactive preventive health records.

Featured Innovations:

• Electronic Standing Orders Highlight Care Gaps and Allow Nonphysicians to Address Them, Leading to Increased Provision of Preventive Services

• Physician Practices Use Software-Facilitated System to Complete Medicare Annual Wellness Visit, Improving Preventive Care and Generating High Satisfaction

• Primary Care Patients Use Interactive Preventive Health Record Integrated With Electronic Health Record, Leading to Enhanced Provision of Preventive Services

Featured QualityTools:

• AMA Weigh What Matters
Developed by American Medical Association

• An Interactive Preventive Care Record: A Handbook for Using Patient-Centered Personal Health Records to Promote Prevention
Developed by Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Family Medicine

• Pediatric Rules and Reminders
Developed by Partners HealthCare System Quality Improvement Group

View Other Issues

Also in This Issue:

Innovations >

• Multidisciplinary Team, Real-Time Information, and Incentives Help Medical Homes Improve Mental Health and Patient Experience, Reduce Utilization and Costs

• Prevention and Treatment Program Integrates Actionable Reports Into Practice, Significantly Reducing Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Home Residents

• Sepsis Alert Program Leads to More Timely Diagnosis and Treatment, Reducing Morbidity, Mortality, and Length of Stay

QualityTools >

• Road to Health Toolkit
Developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Diabetes Education Program; National Institutes of Health

• Road to Health Toolkit Evaluation Guide
Developed by National Diabetes Education Program

• Road to Health Toolkit Training Guide
Developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Diabetes Education Program