EHR Intelligence September 14, 2020
Nurses at home healthcare facilities are often missing copious amounts of patient data.
Home healthcare facilities should implement and further develop Continuity of Care Document (CCD) standard codes to enhance patient data exchange, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
The CCD standard, a current yet underutilized data standard, successfully transferred much-needed admission documents for nurses at three diverse home healthcare agencies.
Medical providers transfer over 12 million US adults into home healthcare facilities on a yearly basis. Home healthcare nurses are required to assist patients with recovery and chronic disease. Nurses need adequate and timely patient data, yet it remains difficult for caregivers to access.
Researchers intended to analyze missing patient...
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