KevinMD June 15, 2022
Do you feel EMR charting is a burden? Do you struggle to complete your notes on time? If you answered yes to one of those, you’re not alone!
Doctors spend, on average, 16 minutes in their EMR for each outpatient encounter. This represents several hours of your time each week! Writing comprehensive notes is a requirement in our practice for patient care monitoring, controlling care quality, billing compliance, and legal protection. We have to deal with this task.
This post will explore a key element of medical documentation: timing.
When is the best time to write your notes?
I have observed doctors charting at many different times:
- During the encounter
- Just after the patient has...
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