HIT Consultant December 27, 2021
Patient safety is only possible with accurate and comprehensive medical records, and this includes those records available in the active archive. Despite the urgency, one of the biggest challenges in healthcare today is maintaining Longitudinal Records – one record per patient over time, across HIS systems, and among various facilities and treatments. That challenge is made even harder when old records are scattered and inaccessible.
Remember Paper Files?
Twenty years ago, seeing the records department pushing a cart full of paper records was normal on a hospital unit. Requests were made by phone, the records were retrieved and brought to the floor, and then they were picked up later in the day and returned to their filing location. This...