Dani Nordin (athenahealth), Chair, EHRA User Experience Workgroup, and Bryan Bagdasian, MD, MMM (MEDITECH)
This is the fourth in a blog series highlighting the discussions from the 2022 EHRA & HIMSS Physician Committee Summit: Meaningful and Streamlined Documentation.
While the ability to create an ideal clinical note is obviously important to the delivery of healthcare, equally essential to the process is the ability for other providers and systems — as well as the clinician’s future self — to use those historical notes to understand the patient’s history and inform future care decisions.
In our second breakout session, we focused on the problem of receiving and comprehending clinical notes received from others. Participants in the group included a mix of behavioral health specialists, hospital nurses, and informatics experts, including representatives from multiple EHR vendors. Using a combination of verbal prompts and a live-updated Mural board, we facilitated a discussion to answer the following questions:
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