UnChartAfter doing some practice innovations (group visits are restarting, I’m undiagnosing patients from hypertension treatment with my ABPM) I may have some availability in my practice without affecting my continuity. That means I can potentially increase my panel size a bit and still provide similar care. I’ve just done a little free within-my-practice advertising and [...]
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Provider Panel Map
Panel Size.pdf The general math behind defining a provider panel isn’t complicated. But if you’re trying to have useful discussions about panel management (hard!) a shared vocabulary can really help. Mark Murray in Family Practice Mangement has a decent starting point. The Map is a way of tracking the issues — should make sense after [...]
Provider Panel Report
This is a basic report for provider panel size. It’s based on patients that have visited the clinic (not just in the database). My clinic has been using e-MDs for 3 years so looking at all visits has been an OK shortcut. Most experts recommend using a shorter interval for estimating panel size (12-18 months, [...]
Continuity Report
This report is a simple measure of patient-centered continuity. So, when one of my patients visits the clinic, what’s the chance that they saw me for the visit? 1.0 would be every patient sees me; 0.0 would be every patient sees one of my partners. Contrast: Doctor-centered continuity would be when I work, how many [...]
