Nursing documentation is a cornerstone of contemporary healthcare, integrating systematic recording of patient observations, interventions, and outcomes with the aim of enhancing effective care ...

Whose Chart Is It, Anyway? "The purpose of an EHR should be helping the end users (us) to be more efficient in charting and free up time for direct patient care," observed a Medscape reader. However, ...

Clinical workflows continue to be a major source of inefficiency and frustration for nurses. Documentation, admissions, and medication reconciliation often remain manual, time-consuming and prone to ...

The intensive care unit at Alder Hey Childrenâ s Hospital decided to use a speech-to-text software program to release nurses from the increasing burden of complex, free-text documentation. Nurses were ...

Nurses spend up to 41% of their workdays in electronic health records, according to a 2022 report from the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General. As hospitals test the capabilities of ambient listening, ...

In the region of the Americas, goals for the elimination of endemic measles and rubella/congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) by the year 2000 and 2010, respectively were established. The successful ...

Before EHRs were implemented, they were touted as a huge step forward in patient care. They were supposed to be more accurate, safer, timelier, and faster. Computers were going to free up nurses to ...