Date
of Last Review 6/7/07
SME: Director of Health Information Management
Purpose: All physicians have the capability of updating and completing the patient's medical record on line from any computer in the hospital.
Procedure:
| Health Information Management (HIM) will place a deficient/delinquent list of medical records in each. physician's mail box weekly. | |
| From the deficient/delinquent list the physician's can update the electronic medical record. | |
| If the physicians update the record at a computer other than the computer in HIM, HIM needs to be notified about the patient updates. | |
| The list can be returned to HIM with a check by the names of the patients who had updates. | |
| HIM staff will use this returned list to update the physician's deficient/delinquent list in this system. |
Related standard
HIPAA : Privacy
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