Step 1. Review goals
Review what goals can be achieved with e prescribing. Here are some examples:
- Reduce medication errors.
- Reduce the time spent on phone calls, faxing, and call-backs to pharmacies.
- Automate prescription renewal requests and authorization processes.
- Increase patient convenience.
- Increase the use of more-affordable medication options.
- Reduce prescription drug misuse and abuse.
- Attain greater prescriber mobility.
- Qualify for incentive payments.
Step 2. Pick the most relevant to your practice
- Goal 1.
- Goal 2.
- Goal 3.
- Goal 4.
- Goal 5.
Step 3. Choose priorities with stakeholders
Meet with stakeholders to frame the three highest-priority goals. Rewrite them in language that resonates with them. Write them here:
- Goal 1.
- Goal 2.
- Goal 3.
Step 4. Plan
Determine an explicit target for each goal, plan to measure how well you achieve each target, and rate the feasibility of measuring each (1 = not feasible, 3 = very feasible).
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Step 5. Create and print the goal poster
- Copy and paste the measurable goals into the PowerPoint poster file.
- Add a start date for each measurement activity.
- Print the poster at a copy center on 11x17 paper or have it enlarged to a bigger size.
- Put up the poster in a place or two where staff members will see it and be reminded of what they're aiming to achieve through their efforts to adopt e-prescribing.