This document provides an overview of key concepts in patient record documentation for healthcare organizations. It outlines 8 topics to be covered, including defining patient records and examples, important principles of healthcare documentation, purposes of patient records, documentation responsibilities of healthcare organizations, date order of reports, common record formats, alternative storage methods, and methods for destroying records past their retention period.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in patient record documentation for healthcare organizations. It outlines 8 topics to be covered, including defining patient records and examples, important principles of healthcare documentation, purposes of patient records, documentation responsibilities of healthcare organizations, date order of reports, common record formats, alternative storage methods, and methods for destroying records past their retention period.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in patient record documentation for healthcare organizations. It outlines 8 topics to be covered, including defining patient records and examples, important principles of healthcare documentation, purposes of patient records, documentation responsibilities of healthcare organizations, date order of reports, common record formats, alternative storage methods, and methods for destroying records past their retention period.
1. Define patient record. Provide your own example and explanation to
support your answer.
2. Explain the important principles of healthcare documentation.
3. Explain on the purposes of patient record.
4. Extensively describe the documentation responsibilities of a healthcare
organization.
5. Provide explanation about the date order of patient record reports.
6. Distinguish between the three (3) types of patient record formats commonly used in any healthcare facility. 7. Describe three (3) alternative record storage methods. 8. Explain methods available and commonly used by healthcare organisation to destruct different forms of health records that have passed the retention period.