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Are clinical support staff required to log out of EHR between documentation?

This regulatory myth examines if logging out of EHR between documentation and other clinical tasks is required—download a PDF of the myth.

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Are verbal orders prohibited?

Do the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (TJC) prohibit verbal orders? Download the myth and find out the answer.

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Debunking Regulatory Myths
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3 ways to begin to reduce clinical documentation by 75% by 2025

Clerical burdens are a major driver of physician burnout. Learn with the AMA about how to make a major dent in doctors’ clinical documentation tasks.

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Myth or fact? Teaching doctors must re-document student EHR work

Historically, teaching physicians were required to re-document medical students’ entries in a patient’s electronic health record (EHR). They don’t have to do that anymore.

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Myth or fact? Ancillary staff can't document parts of E/M services

Medicare does not require doctors to redocument information in a patient’s record that has already been documented by staff or by patients themselves.

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Myth or fact? You must ask about patients' pain at every consult

To better doctors’ practice environment, the AMA is working to debunk regulatory myths such as those involving irrelevant pain-management requirements.

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Clinics use team care to cut time doctors spend on clerical tasks

Care team coordinators can help with medication reconciliation, preventive care reminders and other tasks that don’t require a physician’s involvement.

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