Joint Commission quarterly update: Ensuring accurate and complete medical records
HIM Briefings, January 1, 2016
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The Joint Commission's September 2015 Perspectives encourages "hospitals to design systems to ensure accurate and complete medical records." Although this is not a new concept, it becomes more important as more hospitals' medical records become electronic while still maintaining a certain amount of paper documentation.
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