Emergency Medicine Documentation Templates
This chapter was reproduced from the emergency medicine clerkship primer 2008 chapter 15 with the permission of the editor for ease of viewing on mobile devices.
Emergency medicine documentation templates. Davison has created a series of more than 100 templates that can be integrated into epic making documentation simpler faster and more thorough. What do i see hear and smell when i walk into the room while the oral boards challenge you to perform the physical exam in a certain way the day to day examination of patients can vary dramatically. Pre populated normal findings vastly increase documentation efficiency. Emergency medicine documentation pearls and pitfalls.
At last we arrive at the crux of the chart. Although as important as verbal communication skills written documentation is unfortunately understressed in many clinical areas. Medmacros provides doctors with thousands of templates for all their medical documentation needs. In this final section you show your work and your thought process.
Be careful with pre formatted physical exam templates that are now popular on most electronic medical record programs as a time saving measure because inconsistencies can be damning and lead others to question whether you truly examined the patient at all. And the physical exam. Over 100 chief complaint driven templates. Templates can be customized or created from scratch.
Includes clinical decision rules that can be easily incorporated into. Clinical documentation systems such as templates have been associated with process utilization. Note templates which have been created for ease of use of emergency medicine family medicine and urgent care providers. Centers for medicare and medicaid services cms however has physical exam guidelines for billing that conform to neither the exam you learned as a medical student nor the one youve.
Cms assessment of medical. Emergency departmenturgent care templates. This system is also. It works with all electronic medical records systems emr and can be accessed from anywhere.
Implementation details with hitech in full swing and hospitals and health systems across the nation implementing electronic medical record systems some for the first time many are finding that the meditech solution while fantastic for billing coding and reporting perhaps leaves a little to be. The t system emergency department ed templates are widely used but lacking are analyses of the templates association with processes. Meditech physician documentation templates. Join today our easy to use note templates will save you hours per month in documentation.
The history of present illness past medical family social history. Increase provider efficiency productivity and quality of documentation. Medical decision making mdm.