It is a question you will find your physicians and practice managers asking as you move forward in your new EHR implementation. High quality, clinical chart abstraction ensures useful data such as allergies, medical lists, and patient history migrate into your new system.
Unfortunately, no one has the time to complete this tedious, click and thought-intensive, manual process, patient after patient. All while maintaining the needed accuracy for excellent EMR charting.
Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as adding highly trained staff capable of extracting this key patient information, all while in the midst of an EHR change or new implementation.
So this means clinically pertinent patient information may not be accessible at the time it is most needed for clinical decision-making purposes.