Practice innovation strategies: EHR improvements

The utilization of electronic health records can help transform your practice and improve patient outcomes. The AMA STEPS Forward® program offers proven approaches on how to maximize the benefits of electronic health record (EHR) use, strategies and tactics to successfully implement an EHR and best practices in software selection. 

1. Playbooks: Collections of related interventions

   1. These playbooks walk physicians and care team members through a series of practical, actionable steps to help minimize the burdens and maximize the benefits of the electronic health record.

2. Toolkits: How-to guides for implementation

   1. Identify leadership, system and individual strategies to optimize EHR use in your practice with this collection of toolkits designed to help health care delivery organizations maximize EHR improvement.

3. Webinars

   1. The utilization of EHRs can help transform your practice and improve patient outcomes. Learn more from expert-led webinars on improving EHR usability.

4. Podcasts

   1. Discover compelling EHR research, discussions and more with the AMA STEPS Forward podcast series.

The AMA practice transformation team’s collection of EHR research focuses on core measures of EHR use, physician burnout, and EHR and practice efficiency.

The AMA Electronic Health Record (EHR) Use Research Grant Program awards grants annually to multiple health care organizations to support research on EHR-use metrics and their relationship to burnout, professional satisfaction, well-being, and other practice-related factors.

AMA STEPS Forward presents actionable, practical toolkits and customizable resources that you can use to successfully implement meaningful and transformative change in your practice or organization. Learn more.