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A clinical document captures the patient's journey across various medical stations. To ensure the data remains usable beyond the individual encounter, the information it contains must be represented in ways that other healthcare professionals, information systems, and research workflows can interpret consistently. This is crucial…
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A medication may have a brand name, a generic name, a source-specific name, and even different generic names depending on where it is used. For usability in public health research and direct patient care, treating all of these as ordinary strings creates a surprisingly difficult…
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One thing is for sure: we’re all too familiar with what happens inside a hospital and everything it entails. But we’re not always as in touch with what happens after a patient walks out of it. And frankly, that’s where many treatments can begin to…
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The Patient’s Story is Only As Good As Its Documentation Every patient encounter has a narrative not just about what happened but why it happened, what changed, what improved, what worsened and what should happen next. That narrative is carried through Clinical documentation. When documentation…
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Imagine this. A few days after a successful hip replacement surgery, Mr. Adams returned home with a prescription for an anticoagulant to reduce his risk of blood clots. Everything was going well until he developed a persistent headache. Rather than returning to the hospital, he…
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