Whose Chart Is It, Anyway? "The purpose of an EHR should be helping the end users (us) to be more efficient in charting and free up time for direct patient care," observed a Medscape reader. However, ...

Nursing documentation is a cornerstone of contemporary healthcare, integrating systematic recording of patient observations, interventions, and outcomes with the aim of enhancing effective care ...

Across healthcare, efforts to advance documentation are often focused on enhancing physicians’ workflow. But at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, leaders are equally focused on improving ...

As the Cardiovascular (CV) Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) at The Miriam Hospital (TMH), it is my responsibility to provide for our heart failure patients. In this capacity I have been a resource to ...

WALTHAM, MA--(Marketwired - May 23, 2013) - Responding to the call from emergency department (ED) providers for improved nursing documentation, Forerun, Inc. (www.forerunsystems.com), today introduced ...

Amid Medicare Advantage’s rise, future policy shifts – including faster prior authorization requirements and Medicaid cuts – ...

Let’s face it. Nursing documentation can get you in trouble with your supervisor, make a surveyor faint, make a lawyer rich or make blog readers laugh. I’m going for the last here. So doing a search, ...

This is why it makes sense from a compliance and risk management standpoint to have a comprehensive and consistently applied record retention policy that includes all forms of electronic data. There ...