Healthcare providers have become inundated and often times overwhelmed with the variety of choices and functions that these systems are capable of to assist in their documentation efforts, but providers must be aware that many of these functions that seem as though they are at the top of the game, can in fact be problematic with their reimbursement and liability of their documentation.
Practice management systems often have pre-populated template abilities, and macro building functionality in order to cut down on the amount of information a provider must manually enter in, therefore decreasing the amount of provider administration time in completing their documentation and charting. Auto-normal functionalities and automatic importing from previous visits seem as though they are helping, but in fact can open up a provider’s practice as a target for payer audit findings.
