Clinical documentation systems: another link between technology and quality.(TECHNOLOGY)
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Publication Title: Journal of Healthcare Management
Format: Online
Author: Thielst, Christina Beach ; Gardner, John H.

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Everyone who works in the healthcare industry grapples with multiple pressures. Organizational leaders and managers face challenges related to delivering highquality care, ensuring patient safety, reducing costs, and providing exceptional customer service. Professionals, caregivers, and workers alike strive to achieve balance between their professional pursuits and personal lives. In healthcare, technology has not only ushered in sophisticated tools, but it has also improved and complemented existing processes. This positive infusion of technology has caused many stakeholders in a healthcare organization to ask, "what can technology do for me?" As the past five installments of this column have declared, the simple answer to that question is, "a lot."

Following the track of the previous installments of this column, the focus here (the last in this series) is on emerging technological advances that promise to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of one of the most important elements in the delivery of care--clinical documentation. We selected this...



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