PPC-4 Patient Self-Management Support

The practice works to improve patients’ ability to self-manage health by providing education resources and ongoing assistance and encouragement

 Element A Documenting Communication Needs

• Data Point 1 Identify and Display in the record the language preference of the patient and family
• Date Point 2  Assess both hearing and vision barriers to communication

SETMA has structured fields in the EMR which documents the patients preferred language.  SETMA has structured fields in the EMR which documents whether the patient has hearing or visual impairment. If the patient has either hearing or visual impairment and alert appears on the entrance page to the EMR so that the provider is forced to see it before each patient encounter.

After the visual and/or hearing impairment is documented on the Patient Alert template:

It creates the following notation which appears on the first screen which is always used in the patient encounter.