article thumbnail

The clinical burden of documentation

KevinMD

The purpose of clinical documentation is to efficiently communicate critical data to peers in a readable fashion while meeting compliance and billing requirements. This documentation should not represent a data dump. Physicians continually increase our dependence on technology as the digital age deluges us with data.

article thumbnail

Q&A: How ambient documentation is altering the provider workload

Mobi Health News

Ian Shakil, founder, director and chief strategy officer at Augmedix, discusses the company's role in the evolution of medical documentation.

331
331
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

'Much bigger than just a global pandemic': How hospitals can plan crisis EHR documentation

Mobi Health News

In a preview of their HIMSS22 panel, Serena Bumpus of Ascension and Stephanie Hoelscher of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center explain their Texas pilot study on crisis documentation during COVID-19 surges and how it could lessen the burden on nurses.

article thumbnail

Just because EMRs can document everything doesn’t mean they should

KevinMD

It's always kind of a surprise when you read a patient's chart, and you see an examination of a body part they just don't have. Just the other day, I was reading a consult note on a patient of mine who had been seen by a subspecialist for evaluation of a serious issue, and I […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

EMR 410
article thumbnail

Google demos its EHR-like clinical documentation tool

Mobi Health News

News of the tool, currently in clinical pilots, comes a week after reports circulated that Google was working with healthcare system Ascension on a controversial project involving patient data.

EHR 364
article thumbnail

Teladoc Health will integrate Microsoft AI for automated clinical documentation

Mobi Health News

The expanded partnership allows clinical documentation from virtual care visits to be automatically generated using Microsoft's AI capabilities, including GPT4.

246
246
article thumbnail

Nuance Communications acquires AI clinical documentation startup Saykara

Mobi Health News

Saykara's founder and team will be augmenting Nuance's R&D division.

336
336