Removing Unnecessary EHR Inbox Messages

This activity is part of the Practice Efficiently: Save Hours Each Day in your Clinical Practice series. Each activity is designed to remove obstacles in your practice that interfere with patient care. You will review and implement best practices to reduce the number of unnecessary EHR messages you receive in this activity. By applying these best practices, you will spend more uninterrupted time with patients and finish work at work. In support of physicians’ board certification, this Performance Improvement – Continuing Medical Education (PI-CME) activity is designed to support medical practices quality improvement (QI) initiatives for the purpose of earning CME credits and MOC Part IV points. During this activity, the learner will actively work towards improving their practice by assessing their current practice, learning best practices and guidelines relevant to the content, implementing changes to their practice, and evaluating and reflecting on the changes they made to their practice. Each activity is divided into separate assessment stages:Baseline measurement and intervention planning stage – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits awarded upon completion. Interventions implementation stage. At least 7 days of intervention implementation is required – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits awarded upon completion. Evaluation measurement and reflections – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits awarded upon completion. Completion and submission of final quiz – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits awarded upon completion. Learners will earn a separate CME certificate for each stage completed.