My Visit After the Visit A Summary for

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 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?