Growing the Practice to Become a
Patient-Centered Medical Home
Budgeting the Journey
Nurturing Growth
Assisting Teams with EMR Optimization
Preparing the Overall Budget
- Paper to PM/EMR and/or patient registry
- Assist with vendor interviews and selections
- Collaborate with vendors to engage in the journey
- Collaborate with vendors to retain compliance
- Participate in trainings with staff
- Maximize EMR capabilities
Engaging EMR Vendors
- RMS Healthcare will engage practices in strategic planning to determine the overall budget
- The budget is based upon:
- Baseline practice site assessments
- Customized road map
- Assistance to achieve recognition
Sustaining Momentum
Beyond Recognition
Preparing the Practice for Sustainability
The Fruits of Teamwork and Success
- Completion of the administrative leg to operations
- Developed and adopted new standards of care
- Celebrated accomplishments
- Built a foundation for long-term success
- Improved quality patient outcomes
- Ongoing collaboration with specialty care and hospitals fostering clinical integration
- Culture of competence, passion, commitment
- Key leadership communication
- PCMH engagement - blogs, webinars, etc.
- RMS is your ongoing consultant
Growing the Practice
Questions and Answers
Planting a Strong Team
- Identify key stakeholders
- Identify staff roles for journey
- Identify frequency of on-site meetings
- Determine methods of communication
- Integration of processes for staff
Minimize Operational Interruptions
- Shared collaboration to build a foundation
- Pre-established meetings with agendas
- Mutually agreed upon timelines
- Development of a road map (work plan) to guide journey
Knowledge provides the seeds for the growth of a successful team
The Assessment Phase
Getting to the root of the practices core and
building the PCMH foundation.
Pre-Assessment
Outcomes of Pre-Assessment
What to Expect?
- Define required practice expectations
- Determine ability to achieve full points
- Practice engagement begins
- Assess practice readiness
- Provide road-map (work plan) to begin journey
- Create a vision of long-term success
- Foster and cultivate a culture of coaching
- Brief review of assessment findings (SWOT)
- Begin preparing full report with next steps
- Address questions and applaud commitment
- Stress importance of staff engagement
- Determine practice resource(s)
Practice Engagement
- IDIs with key stakeholders
- Review documents
- Policies and procedures
- Review processes
- Process workflows
- Patient medical records
- Observe patient flow
- Observe staff-to-staff interactions
- Engage in conversation