When two bombs went off eight seconds apart at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, there were many emergency plans in place. "There's an emergency disaster plan in place for both the city and the marathon itself," says Peter Moran, RN, BSN, MSN, CCM, emergency room case manager at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. In addition, each hospital has its own emergency process in place.
As the healthcare industry moves toward adoption of EHRs, facilities need structured data entry capabilities to realize increased efficiency in completing medical records and maintaining documentation integrity.
In this column, we often discuss challenges with EHR systems. Sometimes these relate to technical problems, other times they are process related, and occasionally-as we'll be doing in this issue-we talk about the need for effective "people management."
This article is based on the results of HCPro's annual MRB salary survey. Data in this article represent the responses of 292 HIM professionals from hospitals in the following categories:
