Quick Tips to Avoid Medication Error and Ensure Patient Safety
The EHR was implemented to improve diagnosis, and reduce or prevent medical errors for improving patient outcomes. However, EHR is not totally fool proof and often fails to ensure accuracy, which leads to various mistakes including medication errors. The error rate can be reduced
What are the Key Components Included in a Hospital Discharge Summary?
This is an update to the blog – How Death Summary is Different from Discharge Summary
A discharge summary refers to a clinical report prepared by health professionals that outlines the details of the hospitalization of a patient. Lack of discharge details, diagnosis information
Patient Access to Medical Records – Benefits, Barriers and Solutions
Maintaining complete medical records is essential to coordinate patient care and most physicians rely on medical transcription services to ensure accurate and timely clinical reporting in electronic health records (EHRs). An accurate written record is also important because with digitization, physicians can share patient
Evaluating the Pros and Cons of Telehealth Adoption
Healthcare providers across the country were quick to adopt telehealth services when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. With lockdown and social distancing, telehealth provided access to care remotely. State and federal governments took emergency measures to reduce barriers and improve coverage for telehealth. Medical transcription
Top 6 Reasons for Medical Errors in Healthcare
Medical practices have to maintain a record of all relevant patient data to monitor the treatment given and thus reduce the chances of risk and adverse medical events. Accurate medical records are important in a healthcare setting to not just ensure quality patient care
