Secretaries' role in EHR Documentation and the Implications of Establishing a Structured EHR System

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:216:878.

Abstract

Secretaries play an important quality assurance role in today's medical record production. This study aimed to identify quality assurance tasks that a future system cannot easily compensate for when developing a new structured EHR in which the physicians do the writing themselves. The study identified two tasks, which we suggest should also be performed by secretaries in the future.

MeSH terms

  • Documentation / methods*
  • Efficiency, Organizational*
  • Electronic Health Records / organization & administration*
  • Job Description*
  • Medical Secretaries / organization & administration*
  • Norway
  • Workload*