Employing the electronic health record to improve diabetes care: a multifaceted intervention in an integrated delivery system

Valerie Weber, Frederick Bloom, Steve Pierdon, Craig Wood, Valerie Weber, Frederick Bloom, Steve Pierdon, Craig Wood

Abstract

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes is one of the nation's most prevalent chronic diseases. Although well-known practice guidelines exist, real-life clinical performance often falls short of benchmarks.

Aim: Employ an electronic registry derived from a fully integrated electronic health record (EHR) as the cornerstone of an intervention to improve compliance with recommended diabetes performance measures in an integrated practice network.

Setting: Geisinger Health System's network of 38 practice sites providing care to over 20,000 persons with diabetes located in a 40-county region of central and northeastern Pennsylvania.

Program description: A multidisciplinary group of physicians worked to create a "bundle" of best practice measures for diabetes. This measurement tool was then used as part of a multifaceted intervention to improve physician performance in diabetes care, including audit and feedback, computerized reminders, and financial incentives. Changes in performance of individual measures and the total "bundle" were tracked monthly over 1 year.

Program evaluation: Significant increases were seen in all measures of diabetes care over the 12-month period of the study. Vaccination for pneumococcal disease and influenza improved from 56.5% to 80.8% (p < .0001) and 55.1% to 71.0% (p < .0001), respectively. The percentage of patients with ideal glucose control (HBA1c < 7.0) increased from 32.2% to 34.8% (p < .001), and blood pressure control (<130/80) improved from 39.7% to 43.9% (p < .0001). The overall number of patients receiving all 9 "bundled" measurements improved from 2.4% to 6.5% (p < .0001).

Discussion: Diabetes care improved significantly in response to a multifaceted intervention featuring the use of an EHR-derived registry in an integrated delivery system. More work is needed to demonstrate that such improvements will translate into improved patient health outcomes.

Figures

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Figure 1
Percent Compliance with Diabetes Bundle Measures from Month 1 to 12
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Figure 2
Distribution of clinicians with respect to change in bundle percent during the study period

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