Documentation and Paperwork in Health Care
There is a mountain of paperwork that goes into documentation in a healthcare organization.
While documentation is an integral part of any healthcare organization, being heavily reliant on paper for documentation results in redundant record keeping, inaccuracy, inefficiency, delays in treatment processes etc.
Consequently healthcare organization witness decreased patients' visits, erratic healthcare, and increased patients' waiting time.
Many health care providers still rely on manual paper work which consumes time, affects productivity and efficiency, which finally erode the quality of care. What's more, it incurs sundry costs that impact your cost sheet.
Consequences of increased reliance on paperwork
- Increased patient waiting time that affects business and quality care
- Redundant record keeping that makes the system inefficient
- Possible errors in the event of lost reports, documents and prescriptions
- Increased need for physical space where physical files, records, case progress etc. are kept.
- Retrieval of files, records etc. becomes difficult and time consuming
Why documentation is Important?
When it comes to a patient's treatment related processes, documentation helps in keeping track of a patient's treatment progress and vital information about the patient.
When it comes to billing, documentation helps healthcare service providers reimburse the service offered to the patient.
The scope of the documentation also extends to foster collaboration among the nurses, doctors, lab personnel and other specialists who are involved in a patient's treatment progress a patients' discharge event. Without the proper documentation system in place capturing visits, treatments or surgeries, lab tests, discharge summary etc. the quality is bound to deteriorate.
Documentation also facilitates standards of care, induces ethics and improves quality
Areas of documentation and redundant paperwork
• Maintaining a record that contains what was done, by whom, to whom, where why and with what results
• To keep track of case progress and his medical history
• Taking feedback from Patients in response to the treatment received for future prescription
• To collaborate with members of the team who are involved in different stages of treatment
• Act as a proof for regulatory, institutional, legal guidance and standards that a patient received best class treatment
• To facilitate quality assurance review
• To serve as a basis for capturing metrics, trends and improvements
• Malpractice protection by providing documentary evident that a patient received appropriate attention, care, treatment etc.
How SharePoint Consulting helps?
SharePoint works as an amazing platform for Healthcare organizations to alleviate pains of paperwork by rendering proper document management system, a collaborative platform and a tool to monitor, assess and improve your key metrics for survival, growth and improving quality of a healthcare organization. With thousands of SharePoint consultants available in the market, it is advisable to seek ones who have experience in consulting for healthcare. You can deploy SharePoint 2010 on-premises or in the cloud with SharePoint Online and Office 365, you have the flexibility to scale up and out quickly as your Healthcare needs change.
SharePoint features for Health care
SharePoint Document management features help retrieve any document pertaining to patients, staff, doctors, prescriptions, etc. regardless of where it is stored, with the use of a unique identification number for a document. You can also use it while you are offline and at odd hours without any processes pending on the account of your absence. SharePoint also facilitates transparent, intuitive record management to get easy access to any files, records or documents pertaining to a patients' progress or a treatment. It also helps healthcare organization adhere to corporate policy and regulatory methods by maintaining a central repository to store documents and information.
SharePoint allows multiple users to work on a single document with restricted or controlled access on contents.
For instance, nurses, doctors, lab personnel and other specialists who are involved in a patient's discharge progress can work on a single document with restricted and controlled access without having to wait for their turn or keep redundant documents and combine them later. Thus we see, with multiple accesses to a document organization can save time, material and improve employee's productivity. It also facilitates a great search experience to get insights on people who have expertise in different sections by providing relevant content and context at the right time.
There is a mountain of paperwork that goes into documentation in a healthcare organization.
While documentation is an integral part of any healthcare organization, being heavily reliant on paper for documentation results in redundant record keeping, inaccuracy, inefficiency, delays in treatment processes etc.
Consequently healthcare organization witness decreased patients' visits, erratic healthcare, and increased patients' waiting time.
Many health care providers still rely on manual paper work which consumes time, affects productivity and efficiency, which finally erode the quality of care. What's more, it incurs sundry costs that impact your cost sheet.
Consequences of increased reliance on paperwork
- Increased patient waiting time that affects business and quality care
- Redundant record keeping that makes the system inefficient
- Possible errors in the event of lost reports, documents and prescriptions
- Increased need for physical space where physical files, records, case progress etc. are kept.
- Retrieval of files, records etc. becomes difficult and time consuming
Why documentation is Important?
When it comes to a patient's treatment related processes, documentation helps in keeping track of a patient's treatment progress and vital information about the patient.
When it comes to billing, documentation helps healthcare service providers reimburse the service offered to the patient.
The scope of the documentation also extends to foster collaboration among the nurses, doctors, lab personnel and other specialists who are involved in a patient's treatment progress a patients' discharge event. Without the proper documentation system in place capturing visits, treatments or surgeries, lab tests, discharge summary etc. the quality is bound to deteriorate.
Documentation also facilitates standards of care, induces ethics and improves quality
Areas of documentation and redundant paperwork
• Maintaining a record that contains what was done, by whom, to whom, where why and with what results
• To keep track of case progress and his medical history
• Taking feedback from Patients in response to the treatment received for future prescription
• To collaborate with members of the team who are involved in different stages of treatment
• Act as a proof for regulatory, institutional, legal guidance and standards that a patient received best class treatment
• To facilitate quality assurance review
• To serve as a basis for capturing metrics, trends and improvements
• Malpractice protection by providing documentary evident that a patient received appropriate attention, care, treatment etc.
How SharePoint Consulting helps?
SharePoint works as an amazing platform for Healthcare organizations to alleviate pains of paperwork by rendering proper document management system, a collaborative platform and a tool to monitor, assess and improve your key metrics for survival, growth and improving quality of a healthcare organization. With thousands of SharePoint consultants available in the market, it is advisable to seek ones who have experience in consulting for healthcare. You can deploy SharePoint 2010 on-premises or in the cloud with SharePoint Online and Office 365, you have the flexibility to scale up and out quickly as your Healthcare needs change.
SharePoint features for Health care
SharePoint Document management features help retrieve any document pertaining to patients, staff, doctors, prescriptions, etc. regardless of where it is stored, with the use of a unique identification number for a document. You can also use it while you are offline and at odd hours without any processes pending on the account of your absence. SharePoint also facilitates transparent, intuitive record management to get easy access to any files, records or documents pertaining to a patients' progress or a treatment. It also helps healthcare organization adhere to corporate policy and regulatory methods by maintaining a central repository to store documents and information.
SharePoint allows multiple users to work on a single document with restricted or controlled access on contents.
For instance, nurses, doctors, lab personnel and other specialists who are involved in a patient's discharge progress can work on a single document with restricted and controlled access without having to wait for their turn or keep redundant documents and combine them later. Thus we see, with multiple accesses to a document organization can save time, material and improve employee's productivity. It also facilitates a great search experience to get insights on people who have expertise in different sections by providing relevant content and context at the right time.
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