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, ...

Maintaining high quality clinical documentation is essential for a number of reasons, including improved patient safety and better adherence to accreditation standards. Marie Boyd, administrator at ...

"We must remember that the EHR is a tool; it should not dictate how we practice," wrote a Medscape reader. Perhaps it should not, but does it? The fact is, EHRs are far more than a method of entering ...

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 ...

In a recent press release, Elsevier, a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, and LogicStream Health, a leading provider of clinical process improvement and control ...

Is it just me, or is nursing documentation lacking something? I mean, I don’t expect a nurse to write a book, but I don’t want to play Sherlock Holmes when I am trying to read a nurse’s notes, either.

While smart infusion pumps were introduced to reduce medication errors and ensure patient safety, their technology proved to be complicated. As an example, many pumps use stickers to support barcode ...

Before EHRs were implemented, they were touted as a huge step forward in patient care. They were supposed to be more accurate, safer, timelier, and faster. Computers were going to free up nurses to ...