LNP 157 Electronic Medical Records: Pros and Cons
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS | https://podcast.legalnursebusiness.com/subscribe-to-podcast/
Electronic medical records are here to stay. They are not perfect, but better than handwritten records. This method of recording information about a patient offers many advantages but also some significant disadvantages.
Computerized anesthesia records are common. In fact, there is a strong trend to computerization of all medical records. This method of recording information about a patient offers many advantages but also some drawbacks that affect the legal nurse consultant’s ability to analyze the medical records.
Listen in as Pat Iyer chats about these points
- What happened when a nurse made a computer entry error
- Some of the many advantages of electronic medical records
- Why tampering with the medical record is much more difficult to do with an electronic system
- What are the drawbacks that affect the legal nurse consultant’s ability to analyze medical records
- Why free text entries are often brief and may not adequately describe an incident or series of events leading up to an emergency
Related Product: Medical Malpractice Cases from the Inside
Receive the Recording of the Interview and Transcript for only $9.97 Immediate Digital Delivery!
Learn from Rachael Arruda, who is a registered nurse and has a degree of expertise in working within the medical legal system or working with attorneys who handle medical malpractice and nursing malpractice cases.
What happens when clients contact a plaintiff attorney and they say that they think that they’ve been injured by a medical mistake?
Do patients believe they can take away the license of the doctor by filing a claim?
Can the board of nursing discipline a nurse for an action that she took, even if it didn’t cause any injury to the patient?
You’ll pick up useful tips when you purchase Medical Malpractice from the Inside. Go to this link http://lnc.tips/inside and use the code Listened to get a 25% discount.
Your Presenter
Pat Iyer has been a legal nurse consultant since 1987 when she first began reviewing cases as an expert witness. She achieved national prominence through her texts and many contributions to the legal nurse consulting field. She has reviewed several cases involving electronic medical records.