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 ...

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 ...

The American Medical Informatics Association this week published the results of a new report it hopes will help move the needle on the widespread problem of excessive clinical documentation burden.

Healthcare is at the center of transformation in a world where technology continues to transform industries. As a nurse, how do computer documentation increase your productivity? The answer is to ...

"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 ...

New healthcare policies, whether federally mandated, payer mandated or internally mandated, are pushing providers toward taking on more financial risk through various value-based reimbursement models ...

In a recent survey of wound care professionals who work in nursing homes, almost half reported observing wound documentation that was inaccurate and led to adverse patient outcomes including sepsis, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Documentation of specific goals-of-care details, such priorities, trade-offs and family involvement, can ...

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) ...