AMA STEPS Forward®

Practice innovation strategies: Time-saving strategies

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Establishing workflows that support team-based care will enhance your practice productivity and the experience of your patients. The AMA STEPS Forward® program offers proven approaches to help you maximize team-based care, save time with documentation and stop unnecessary work.

Time-saving strategies

Implement team-based care to save time, redistribute and share responsibilities with your team, so you can provide better care.

Explore the collection of time-saving resources

  1. Playbooks: Collections of related interventions

    1. Save time for your patients and your practice to achieve high-quality and efficient patient care. Learn strategies to address process improvement, time-saving workflows and efficiency of practice.
  2. Toolkits: How-to guides for implementation

    1. AMA's open-access toolkits focus on ways to design practice workflows, train your team, improve efficiency and workflow and more.
  3. Webinars

    1. Webinars provide proven approaches to help you implement team-based care to save time, redistribute and share responsibilities with your team, and allow you to provide better care.
  4. Podcasts

    1. Stay in the loop on time management in health care, innovations and emerging issues impacting physicians and public health today.

Innovation Academy

AMA STEPS Forward® Innovation Academy provides practice resources such as webinars, mentoring, learning collaboratives, boot camps, and more.

About AMA STEPS Forward

AMA STEPS Forward presents actionable, practical toolkits and customizable resources that you can use to successfully implement meaningful and transformative change in your practice or organization. Learn more.

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