The Open Notes mandate that will let patients see all of a physician's clinical notes on their treatment is making some ... For example, a medical term such as "spontaneous ... Progress Made ...

On average, clinicians at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center manually entered just 18% of the text in each progress note, while 46% was copied and 36% was imported ...

Physicians take higher-quality and more efficient notes when they receive education and guidelines that emphasis note-taking best practices, according to a UC-Los Angeles study. For the study ...

Physician progress notes tend to be more accurate in paper records than in newly implemented electronic health records, but there is more information omitted in paper notes, according to a new ...

• Need to scan handwritten physician progress notes, which are sometimes illegible. • Physician documentation using a computerized progress-note format and/or voice recognition software can ...