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Home > St. John's Quality Mission > Advanced Technology 

Improving the Process of Care:
St. John's Patient Registry

St. John’s is committed to improving the systems and processes for delivering patient care in physician offices. Our St. John’s Patient Registry is one example of an office-based quality initiative.

A patient registry is a computer application for capturing, managing, and providing access to condition-specific patient information. The information provided helps support disease management for patients facing chronic illness.

St. John’s launched a patient registry clinical information system to support all St. John’s Clinic primary care physicians in April of 2005.

This system tracks patient information and helps health care providers identify patients with gaps in care. It also helps to ensure appropriate and timely care is provided during patient visits.

The registry integrates patient demographics, lab results, procedure information and immunization records. St. John’s patient registry includes patient information for diabetes, heart failure, coronary artery disease, and hypertension. In addition, breast cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening, and childhood/adolescent immunizations are tracked for preventive care.

Our patient registry provides a view of patient information in three key areas:

  • Patient Specific Information (at Point of Care)
    A planner is printed out for individual patients during their visit. The planner provides a snapshot of specific information such as lab results and treatment recommendations.
     
  • Patients with Gaps in Care
    Reminder letters are generated to patient with gaps in care, such as a missing annual cholesterol test, mammogram, or retinal eye exam.
     
  • Outcome Summary Reports
    For each physician, the patient registry will provide aggregate rates for specific disease groups, as compared to the entire clinic and registry goals.

    Key Benefits

  • Enhances the ability to focus on multiple disease states and conditions
  • Helps to better coordinate patient care
  • Proactively tracks conditions and the health status of individual patients and populations of  patients
  • Supports outreach efforts
  • Reports outcomes

     

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