Phreesia's COVID-19 Screening Module - questions and workflow
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What guidance are you using to determine the screening questions and how quickly are you updating the guidance when it changes?
We’ve trained our staff to ask patients about recent travel and we have signs up requesting that patients don a mask when they have a fever or respiratory symptoms. Are any of these efforts redundant?
How are you screening for COVID-19?
To help identify patients who may be ill with or who may have been exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), we developed a questionnaire modeled on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) flowchart for healthcare professionals. Education and these screening questions appear at the start of both pre-visit and in-office interviews to provide real-time instructions for patients based on their answers. We are updating our screening module as the CDC’s guidelines change.
What guidance are you using to determine the screening questions and how quickly are you updating the guidance when it changes?
We are following the CDC guidance for healthcare professionals. The current version reflects the CDC’s most recent guidance, and we will continue to update to align with the CDC as quickly as we can make the requisite platform changes.
Will you share best practices across your network?
We are actively soliciting feedback from our practice network about screening and messaging to patients and staff. Our network has mobilized quickly and been eager to share ideas with their peers.
We’ve trained our staff to ask patients about recent travel and we have signs up requesting that patients don a mask when they have a fever or respiratory symptoms. Are any of these efforts redundant?
Those efforts are not duplicative. Phreesia has specific value as we can tell at-risk patients who complete the screening questions pre-visit to call before coming in and we can alert staff of at-risk patients. Your practice can also use Phreesia to proactively send out announcements. Signage can also help advise symptomatic patients to put on a mask as soon as they enter your facility and staff can also ask patients about their travel history. We are broadly hearing that patients and staff appreciate that efforts are being made to protect their health.
What are the benefits of using this screening with Phreesia’s Pre-Visit Mobile capability?
With Pre-Visit Mobile, patients can check in on their own devices and answer our coronavirus screening questions prior to their visit. If they are identified as at-risk based on their recent travel, symptoms or contact with others, they will receive a message to call their doctor’s office before coming in for their visit, as well as further instructions depending on their answers. This workflow helps to more quickly identify at-risk patients and limit exposure to other patients and healthcare staff.
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Phreesia extends our gratitude to healthcare providers and staff for your tireless efforts to protect patients and combat the spread of COVID-19. We're committed to helping medical groups and health systems stay safe, stay open and continue to see patients. Whether that means supporting you as you transition to telehealth visits, helping you communicate changes to your patient base, enabling you to screen patients for COVID-19 risk factors or helping you minimize contact during in-person visits, Phreesia is here for you.
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We are delaying our COVID-19 Screening Module updates planned for 7/6/20, due to practice feedback around the recent surges of new COVID-19 cases in many states.
We have made the decision to keep the existing travel question, and are planning for additional updates, including:
- If patients indicate recent travel, adding a follow-up question to capture where the patient traveled to
- Limiting patient alerting for travel to reduce inbound call volume, but continuing to alert practice staff so they can take the right action based on state and community guidelines
We are targeting these changes for the week of 7/13 and will include the other previously announced changes around symptoms and testing at that time too. We appreciate the continued partnership from all of our practices utilizing the COVID-19 screening module and thank you all for the feedback.
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