AHIMA June 3, 2020
The documentation detailing a person’s wishes for the care they receive at the end of their life is amongst the most sensitive data that health information management (HIM) professionals will ever handle. But for the providers that use that data to make life or death decisions, those records are frequently incomplete, contradictory, or missing entirely. In a pandemic where patients are making decisions isolated from their families and advocates, healthcare professionals are looking at advance care planning (ACP) documentation with new urgency.
This urgency has compelled healthcare organizations to take a more proactive approach to ensuring ACP documentation is as accessible and accurate as possible, whether that means partnering with a vendor or manually reviewing all of the documentation currently...
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