Ehr: Delegating order entry to non-physician care

Delegating order entry to non-physician care team members can increase practice efficiency (especially with closing care gaps and meeting quality benchmarks), reduce physicians’ administrative burden, and encourage non-physician health care professionals to take on new responsibilities and operate at the top of their license. It is imperative that organizations develop policies and processes that ensure staff conduct tasks within their scope of practice, are supervised appropriately by ... For example, a 2018 report from the AMA, Pew Charitable Trusts and Medstar Health, Ways to Improve Electronic Health Record Safety, identified shortfalls with EHR usability, implementation and testing and outlined how to improve usability and safety across the continuum—from development to the post-implementation of EHRs. The three organizations reviewed the medical literature and convened an expert panel of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, EHR vendors, patients and health IT experts ... The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Program—also known as Meaningful Use or MU—initially provided incentives to accelerate the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) to meet program requirements. This collection of AMA STEPS Forward® Practice Innovation Strategies—including playbook and checklist PDFs—offers proven approaches on how to maximize the benefits of EHR use, strategies and tactics.