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Joe Ornelas, PhD, Director of Research, Hinsdale Orthopedics presented their OBERD solution to improve patients’ PRO completion rates. Hinsdale Orthopedics improved their PRO completion rates by focusing on the clinic encounter with patients as a prime opportunity to collect open forms during pre-op and follow-up intervals. By having staff monitor form completion the day before patient visits via their OBERD dashboard and identifying patients needing to finish their forms, Hinsdale Orthopedics was able to give appropriate patients an ipad upon arrival and encourage them to complete the open forms. Joe indicated that this solution notably increased compliance rates and saved staff time and effort.

Sarah Jouras, Manager of Patient Experience of Midwest Orthopedics at RUSH (MOR) shared how they solved “a massive paper shuffle for each patient” requiring “extensive staff time to process”. She presented their OBERD digital patient intake system where patients could complete their registration, history, consent and PRO forms before or at the practice with any digital tool that could access the Internet. Sarah detailed how the OBERD system allowed their staff to repurpose their time from manually inputting the patient data to supporting physician needs and attending to patient interests and questions. She indicated that this solution has saved substantial time and money for MOR.

The Regenerative orthobiologics registry collects and reports outcomes data for providers administering orthobiologics injections. Part of our mission is to help Orthobiologics emerge as an important patient-friendly option to treat orthopedic morbidities. Read more.

Collecting and Sharing Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) with patients can improve physician ratings for communication and shared decision-making.