Surgical Notes, a nationwide provider of medical transcription, coding and other related information technology services, recently gathered data from roughly 30 ASCs and surgical hospitals, to ...

Patients with duplicate medical charts have increased odds of adverse patient outcomes as well as prolonged hospitalization.

New research suggests that patients with duplicate medical records face substantially higher risks during hospital stays, ...

Alan Beyer, MD, of Orthopedic Surgery Center of Orange County in Newport Beach, Calif., explains how the surgery center ensures medical charts are completely and accurately filled out according to ...

I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her past open-heart surgery. Only she had never undergone open-heart surgery. That would have been obvious if the ...

Dr. Jonathan Thierman, president and chief executive, ExpressCare and Children's Urgent Care, at LifeBridge Health, previously had set up the LifeBridge Health Virtual Health Center. From that ...

The plurality of providers in medical practices are required to close their patient charts within 24 hours of a patient encounter, according to a Medical Group Management Association survey. MGMA, an ...

Ephrata Community Hospital (ECH) is in the midst of a major project-converting paper patient charts to an electronic format or electronic medical record system (EMR). John Jabour, ECH vice president ...

I belong to a group of three internists who have separate outpatient clinics attached to the hospital in the same building. When I am on call for a colleague, can I take a patient’s chart from that ...

Biomedical engineers and clinicians at the University of Oxford and the Oxford University Hospitals in England have replaced traditional paper observation charts with iPads equipped with an early ...