Mayo Clinic researchers write in an AHIMA report that the process improvement technique could be brought to bear on electronic health record efficiency. Clinical documentation improvement has been a major focus of many health systems’ value-based care initiatives. But getting to more efficient and more accurate charting, especially for providers using older electronic health record systems, is a tall task with no dependable template for successBut in AHIMA’s Perspectives in Health Information Management, four experts from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine showed how their department the college’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation used Lean processes for a redesign of an inefficient, first-generation EHR documentation system.The project was a success, at least with respect to a boost in productivity and staff morale.

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