Healthcare IT News July 9, 2024
Nearly 75% of its clinicians now spend less time working outside of work hours, which has improved provider satisfaction. There’s also been a reduction in documentation errors.
Medical documentation by practicing physicians has been a challenge since the creation of the medical chart. During his years of practice, Dr. Will Carracino, chief medical information officer at Florida-based not-for-profit health system Lee Health, recalls struggling to keep up with documentation from the first day he became a physician.
THE PROBLEM
“It is challenging to put into the chart exactly what will convey the feeling the patient is experiencing,” Carracino explained. “While I was in practice, I would buy a very nice fountain pen to entice myself to spend additional time charting,...