Healthcare IT Today: Ambulatory & Physician Practices

Ambulatory & physician practices are designed to deliver high quality care to patients. Ambulatory practices offer healthcare services outside the hospital settings (outpatient settings). Such outpatient settings include hospital outpatient departments, medical offices, medical clinics, ambulatory surgery centres, etc. Healthcare providers involved in ambulatory practices should ensure that the ambulatory care offered to patients should be safe and high-quality especially for patients with chronic diseases. Different tools are available for improving the safety and quality of ambulatory care. For a successful ambulatory care practice, care providers should avoid the errors that may occur in diagnostic testing, medication safety, communication & teamwork, patient care, clinical emergency management, etc. Physician practices are medical practices involving a single physician or a group of physicians for delivering healthcare services outside hospital settings in private clinics or other place that is not a part of hospital.