Meeting
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Recent widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has dramatically increased the amount of information quickly accessible to clinicians. Given recent pushes for interoperability and consumer generated data in EHRs, the volume of information will continue to grow. The result is clinicians who experience information overload and lack the time and ability to comprehensively […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Recent widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) has dramatically increased the amount of information quickly accessible to clinicians. Given recent pushes for interoperability and consumer generated data in EHRs, the volume of information will continue to grow. The result is clinicians who experience information overload and lack the time and ability to comprehensively […]
Abstract Number: 186
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Clinical Documentation Improvement programs have been present in adult hospitals for many years. These programs strive to promote clinicians working together with nurse specialists to appropriately depict the care delivered and increase coding accuracy. This collaboration has traditionally been through written and verbal documentation queries that clarify diagnoses based on a patient’s clinical indicators […]
Abstract Number: 223
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Since the advent of Electronic Health Record(EHR) and subsequent workload of clinical documentation, Hospital Medicine physicians are finding themselves spending more time in front of the computer and less with their patients. The implementation of EHR was intended to help physicians improve productivity and quality, however, data shows we are spending up to 25% […]