Diagnosing documentation ailments.

摘要

WHILE EHRS OFFK improvements to patient care, they are not documentation panacea for record keeping. Systems must ho properly configured and used to generate solid documenta-lion. When they are not they might not represent what actually occurs in patient care, compromising care and complicating matters for physicians faced with professional liability claims."There's a misperception by policy makers, healthcare providers, and vendors that EHRs are equivalent to good documentation," explains Barbara Drury, BA, FHIMSS, president of Pricare, a Larkspur, CO-based consulting firm. "But the presence of an EHR doi'sn'I necessarily lead to better quality or a more reliable truth of what happened during an encounter."