| Seq #153 | Friday, 10 March 2006 | |||||||
| 2:30 PM-4:30 PM Swan Hotel Mockingbird, Symposium | ||||||||
| [ADEA] Organizational Use of an Electronic Clinic Management System | ||||||||
Sponsored by: ADEA | ||||||||
| Description: This symposium will demonstrate the use of an electronic clinic management system (ECMS) as a management tool “data source” in a dental school clinical practice. An ECMS provides a mechanism for monitoring and measuring the efficiency, quality, and outcomes of a complex clinical practice program. The objectives for this program include outlining the complex management challenges of a dental school clinical practice, illustrating the value of an ECMS in developing clinic management strategies, exploring an ECMS as a tool in case management and quality assurance,. demonstrating the use of standardized treatment notes in data generation and analysis, and engaging all attendees in questions and answers and development of next steps. At UMKC, on any half-day, there are over 700 students, patients, faculty, and staff engaged in patient care. An ECMS can include biometric authentication which provides a reliable record of all student, patient, and faculty interactions. A case study involving the use of biometrics will demonstrate how unique management strategies were developed to assess personnel utilization and efficiency. Medical and dental examinations, medications, consultations, and other key oral health conditions are entered into and tracked by an ECMS. These data facilitate treatment planning, constant monitoring, and quality assurance. In tracking these data, a model for assessing patient caries risk assessment will be demonstrated as an example. An electronic patient record allows for standardization of treatment notes while encouraging student clinicians to accurately and legibly document all aspects of care. Cases will demonstrate how prescribed treatment "schemas" allow for standardization and provide creative access to a myriad of treatment data. The data collected during patient care provide evidence-based information which enhance quality of care, improve efficiency of operation, and warehouse data for clinical research | ||||||||
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