What ‘Thank You for the Interesting Consult’ Really Means, Part 1
Initial consult notes usually end with the following line: Thank you for the interesting consult. What does that really mean? In the first of...
Medical Scribe Prefers Using Quill & Ink for Documentation
AUGUSTA, GA - Stating it is easier to use and provides infinitely more character than an electronic medical record (EMR), medical scribe Tim Penn prefers...
93% of New England Journals Are Rolled Up & Used to Kill Flies
BOSTON, MA - Maybe don't throw away all those unread New England Journals just yet: A study published in this month's issue of the...
CDC: Pictures Now Worth 2300 Words, Up from a Thousand, Time to Chart with...
ATLANTA, GA - In a development that may have implementations for charting and medical documentation and all the health care professionals lucky enough to...
Rings in Paper Chart Not in the Mood to Stay Aligned Today
ATLANTA, GA - All the metal rings in Room 482A's paper chart are in a particularly bad mood today and don't plan to stay...
Computer Resuscitated After 6 Rounds of Ctrl+Alt+Del
NASHVILLE, TN - Gomerblog is happy to report that a code team at Nashville Medical Center (NMC) has successfully resuscitated an old nurses station computer...
EMRs Merge in Bid for World Domination
Physicians and Hospital Administrators awoke to a brave new world this morning. The Mainframe Computers and the thousands of Servers loyal to the CERNER...
Breaking: CMS Creates New Blame Anesthesia ICD-10 Codes
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) & National Center of Health Statistics (HCHS) have created a new set of...