In the health care industry, there is a common adage: If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. For a combination of legal, medical and billing reasons, doctors spend hours every day in front of ...

Writing has cognitive benefits that improve quality of thinking and problem-solving ...

Note-sharing is a tool many physicians utilize to share office notes with patients, according to Kaiser Health News. 1. Many patients do not ignore health issues when they are visible in writing. 2.

Health care systems have been putting therapists’ progress reports online, much to the surprise (and anger) of some patients. By Christina Caron Stunned. Ambushed. Traumatized. These were the words ...

The call to action comes when patients see their physician's notes, says Jan Walker, a registered nurse and principal associate in medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard ...