Bonnie Anton

Electronic Health Record Project Manager
UPMC

Bonnie B. Anton MN RN has over 35 years of experience in acute care nursing. This experience included working as a clinical nurse, a unit manager and a Cardiology Clinical Nurse Specialist. Presently she is an informatics nurse conducting electronic health record implementation and electronic health record educational training sessions for health care providers. In addition to her role as an informatics nurse, she also is assisting with the implementation of a system-wide patient education initiative as well as implementing a health literacy educational session for newly hired hospital employees.
She has presented nationally and internationally on informatics, nurses’ use of social media; patient education and health literacy.

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Patient Experience Strategy & Design

Thursday, May 12th, 2016

15:00 Case Study Revolution: Patient Education: Chaos To Strategy In 24 Months

Patient education offers a significant opportunity to engage patients, with the ultimate goal of improving health outcomes. We are pleased to share our journey of the transformation of a fragmented education program across a 20 hospital system into a more comprehensive unified health library. Faced with eleven different vendors supplying patient education content housed in multiple electronic health record systems, we successfully created a strategy and practical tactics to transform our approach. Ultimately, our patients are better prepared with consistent education messages leading to enhanced self-management skills, improved health outcomes, and potentially reduced hospital readmissions. National best practices for patient education were researched and implemented, transforming our program into a highly functioning and effective patient engagement strategy. Audience participation will focus on attendee’s patient education challenges with discussion of suggested solutions.

Learning Objectives:
• Identify key components of a strategic plan for Patient Education.
• Examine effective teaching strategies to engage patients such as Health Literacy and Teach Back.
• Explore practical steps to transform your patient education program to engage patients more fully.