Best Practices in Managing Patients With Rheumatoid ArthritiCS_SUMMITMG_RA

This best practices summary details how Summit Medical Group set out to develop a RA patient registry, build quality metrics in the EHR that would provide actionable data, develop and implement a treatment algorithm to reduce variability in practice, share transparent monthly performance data with rheumatologists, and monitor variation in medication utilization. Data validated that the rheumatologists were treating patients appropriately with DMARDs and helped identify a gap in the functional status assessment workflow process.