The Waste of Handwritten Notes
Last night I used Yahoo! to find more information on ‘hospital errors’ so I could post it into ’slip and fall’. And this is one of the first results:
Nurse + Blog = PixelRN: 16% of the US economy runs on scrawly, handwritten notes. PixelRN is a blog written by a nurse (who is unfortunately considering leaving the field). She writes about the problems involved with handwritten orders, charts, and notes that are used in so many hospitals. This is particularly a problem in hospitals without “electronic medical records” (computer systems that can be helpful, but they’re also not the cure-all that vendors would claim — more on that later in this
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