Are you paying too much for your medical records? Are you getting the complete medical record? How does $6.50 sound for medical records? Well, this blog will hopefully assist you to pay less and get more. First, thanks to the HITECH Act, there are limitations on what a facility can charge for medical records. There…
Many electronic medical records have the ability to copy and paste data, assessments, and multiple types of information. This feature was designed to allow for more efficient documentation. However, this feature has created many issues. The “copier”, by the very act of copying and pasting has taken the previous documentation as his own. If he…
The copy-and-paste function of the Electronic Health Record is a dangerous feature. I have personally reviewed medical cases where a patient was noted to have diabetes, but didn’t. It was an error by the initial author of the Past Medical History, but copied and pasted to each physician’s assessment. A pressure ulcer was assessed as…