Nurses report increased stress levels, and they have said a major contributor to burnout is unproductive charting – a burden that the KLAS Arch Collaborative says hospitals and health systems are able ...

"We must remember that the EHR is a tool; it should not dictate how we practice," wrote a Medscape reader. Perhaps it should not, but does it? The fact is, EHRs are far more than a method of entering ...

Whether you are a registered nurse (RN), nursing student, or nursing assistant—it is likely you experience stress on the job. Extensive hours, fatigue, demanding patients, strain of being constantly ...

Across healthcare, efforts to advance documentation are often focused on enhancing physicians’ workflow. But at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, leaders are equally focused on improving ...

The hospital we’re used to – either the one we visit during a trip to the emergency room or the one we pass through for annual office visits or diagnostic tests and scans – has gotten an artificial ...

Maintaining high quality clinical documentation is essential for a number of reasons, including improved patient safety and better adherence to accreditation standards. Marie Boyd, administrator at ...

Before EHRs were implemented, they were touted as a huge step forward in patient care. They were supposed to be more accurate, safer, timelier, and faster. Computers were going to free up nurses to ...