"Note bloat" is a health record affliction that decreases the signal-to-noise ratio of clinical documentation and frustrates clinical decision-makers. As part of our documentation quality improvement initiative, we promote practical ways for clinicians to promote succinct, clear and actionable charting.
It can be difficult to break paper-based habits when going paperless. A number of data elements -- such as patient names, birthdates and identifiers -- are important to insert on physical pages because embedded identifiers helps lost pages get back to the right chart and location.
It's okay to let Connect Care take care of this!
Connect Care notes do not benefit from embedded identifiers. They are digitally anchored. More importantly, any act of printing, copying or otherwise moving information causes headers and footers to be generated with any needed patient, encounter and event identifiers. This includes the date and time of documentation and other situating information.