FILE CLONING vs. INDIVIDUAL PATIENTS

Does this sound familiar? My EMR forces me to "point and click, click, click" resulting in charts starting to all look the same.
• Agreed: E/M coding analyzes the number of CLICKS within various components such as ROS and PMH.
• Agreed: Pay for Performance requires information about diagnoses and various laboratory values.

However, the narrative within the History of Present Illness is less important for E&M Coding or for PQRI.

CONCLUSION: It is important that you treat each individual patient as an INDIVIDUAL patient, thus, speech recognition.

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