Keeping accurate documentation and nursing charts of your patients' information is sound business practice for your health care facility, doctor's office or clinic. All health care personnel should be ...

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

ChristianaCare’s digital evolution is entering a new chapter, and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Petrena Saunders, DNP, RN, is helping lead the way. As the Newark, Del.-based health system prepares ...

Technology has been both a promise and a problem in healthcare. When EHRs arrived in hospitals, they were heralded as a revolution — bringing order to messy paper charts and standardizing how care was ...

One approach to increasing the acceptance of new information technology is usability testing to determine user preferences and the functionality of the system. [3] Usability testing is a subset of the ...

As one provider moved from reactive paper-based management to proactive, tech-supported leadership, it has been focused on ...

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, ...

McKnight’s published an excellent article last Thursday titled “Poor documentation crippling providers with Medicare denials.” The article, written by Elizabeth Newman, states that when Marilyn Mines ...

Nursing home residents who fill out forms through a certain end-of-life care documentation program are more likely to receive the care they request than those with only a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) ...

Sentara Health has expanded its agreement with Andor Health for an enterprise licence of the ThinkAndor care platform, ...