Information Blocking / Sharing, Immediate Release of Test Results to Patients: March 2024 update

We continue to evolve our Information Blocking / Sharing and Immediate Test Result Anticipatory Guidance (that’s a mouthful).

In case this is useful to other health systems working on similar projects, we believe that teaching our docs and providers about Anticipatory Guidance (shifting the counseling of patients about test results upstream to the time of ordering a test) is the best for everyone: less anxiety for patients, and fewer phone calls and messages for clinic staff.

See the screenshot above for staff and also provider guidance.

From a recent presentation about immediate release of results, some slides that might help.

And, here are the patient-facing and provider-facing 1-pagers in both PDF and WORD versions.

1-pager for doctors/providers (.PDF and .docx)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kvbmgv2gbwk24meib9y9j/2024-04-InfoBlockingSharing-1-pager.pdf?rlkey=oxlsqza17bk2l33gnat71v3eu&dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fj67mir2za8lh4t6aaunn/2024-04-InfoBlockingSharing-1-pager.docx?rlkey=hx2s2x43alin2q4ih92p6xsu6&dl=0

1-pager for patients (.PDF and .docx)

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2ivo3b3vyleyt43xh35hc/2024-04-For-Patients-Getting-a-Test-at-UCHealth.pdf?rlkey=kn2xqqsnac8zz4b6g0ntz9r0j&dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/eubtflr6rq77bxqbztjmv/2024-04-For-Patients-Getting-a-Test-at-UCHealth.docx?rlkey=ybobhdnl2cwmqzj4zh7tqubfe&dl=0

I hope these are helpful. Let me know if you develop something similar or better! A rising tide raises all boats.

Author: CT Lin

CMIO, UCHealth (Colorado); Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine View all posts by CT Lin