Quality Improvement Initiative: A Strategy to Increase Medical Professionals' Support on Patient Portal at a Specialty Clinic
Date of Award
11-10-2014
Document Type
Undergraduate Capstone Project
Degree Name
Master of Professional Studies
Organizational Unit
University College, Healthcare Management
Disciplines
Healthcare Leadership
First Advisor
Jeffrey Helton
Keywords
Patient portal activation rate, Patient portals
Abstract
Patient portal is a federal government-promoted care management concept and application that will enhance care work efficiency and collaboration between patients, caretakers, and medical professionals between office visits. However, portal associated workflow adjustments have been identified as a barrier to earn medical staff endorsement at a pediatric specialty clinic. The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to examine if introducing an in-person assistance program would increase medical staff's support and begin promoting portal to their patients. In this four-week project, a total of 26 portal accounts were activated. The post-project portal activation rate increased to 19.6% from 15.9%. The project result demonstrated that medical professionals were willing to promote patient portal when portal associated workflow adjustments were eliminated.
Publication Statement
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Recommended Citation
Lai, Chien Chang, "Quality Improvement Initiative: A Strategy to Increase Medical Professionals' Support on Patient Portal at a Specialty Clinic" (2014). University College: Healthcare Management Capstones. 26.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/ucol_hcl/26