Consider these ideas:

• Hold a session with staff members to reinforce the importance of preventive services visits and how using Bright Futures tools, materials, and strategies can help. Solicit their ideas for how to efficiently incorporate Bright Futures components into daily practice.
• Train staff members on how to use and distribute the Previsit and Medical Screening Questionnaires when indicated. Make sure they can help parents and patients with literacy or language difficulties fill out the forms.
• Have all tools and supplies ready for distribution at each visit.

Consider these ideas:

• Start at the initial entry point to the medical office. Have the receptionist provide visitors with age-appropriate Previsit Questionnaires and other questionnaires needed for specific visits (eg, MCHAT questionnaire to screen for autism at the 18-month visit).
• Ask the medical assistant to check that the Previsit Questionnaire has been completed and to attach the completed questionnaire to the chart or to enter the results into the EHR system.  
• Have the clinician review and discuss the Previsit Questionnaire during the visit and complete the Visit Documentation Form. 
• Have the medical assistant or nurse provide appropriate Parent/Patient Education Handouts at the end of the visit.
• Assign referral tracking, if warranted, to a staff member to follow up on the visit.

Consider these ideas:

• Ensure that all the disciplines participating in your practice are aware of and use the system. See the sample Preventive Services Prompting Sheets: Infancy and Early Childhood​; Middle Childhood and Adolescence​​. 
  
• Include multiple checks in the system to ensure that maintaining or updating the system becomes a shared responsibility. 
• Visit the Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit, 2nd Edition for more ideas and tools.

Consider these ideas:

• Use your scheduling system for recalls and compile a list of patients who are due for Bright Futures visits.
• Use your EHR system to run a report of patients who have missed their well-child visits or immunizations.
• Consider automating your recall-and-reminder messages to parents' preferred methods of communication (ie, text, phone, or mail).
• Create a chronic condition list from the billing or EHR system. Identify children with special health care needs in the scheduling system so that you can schedule longer appointment times.
• Review the Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit, 2nd Edition for more ideas and tools.

Consider these ideas:

• Incorporate the elements of the Previsit Questionnaire and Visit Documentation Form into your EHR system to ensure that all components of the Bright Futures visit are covered at each visit.
• Visit the Integrate Bright Futures Into Your Electronic Health Record System page in this section of the Bright Futures Web site for more information.

Consider these ideas:

• ​Use the updated 2021 Coding for Pediatric Preventive Care​​ Booklet
• Visit the Learn About Coding page in this section of the Web site to learn about other useful coding resources.
• Visit the "Getting Paid" section on the updated AAP Practice Transformation Web pages.

Consider these ideas:

• Assign an office or clinic staff member to be a liaison with community organizations and to maintain a list of community resources for parents. Hire a care coordinator or use current staff members with skills in this area.
• Use the community liaison in your practice to handle referrals, communicate with specialists, and coordinate services/resources for families.
• Consider hosting mixers with potential referral sources in the community to establish relationships.
• Use this Community Resources Handout to get started! Visit the Bright Futures Tool and Resource Kit, 2nd Edition for more ideas, strategies, and tools.

The Bright Futures Training Intervention project served as the foundation for the Education in Quality Improvement for Pediatric Practice (EQIPP) courses. Conducted by AAP Bright Futures in 2006, with funding from the Commonwealth Fund, the BFTI project tested a framework that included 6 office system components:

1. Using a preventive services prompting system
2. Using structured screening to assess developmental and behavioral needs
3. Evaluating parental strengths and needs
4. Using recall-and-reminder systems
5. Linking to community resources 
6. Identifying children with special health care needs

BFTI represents a unique office-systems approach to specifically improving the delivery of developmental screening and preventive services for children younger than age 5. This approximately 1-year collaborative learning intervention involved engaging multidisciplinary office teams from primary care practices in implementing all 6 of the key components and strategies that embody the Bright Futures philosophy. Learn more by visiting the Quality Improvement section of this Web site.