Chart amendments

December 8, 2014

Mental patients are supposed to be able to write amendments to their charts, describing their side of whatever has been written about them by employees of the hospital.  The amendments are supposed to be added to the patients' records, so each version of what happens is simultaneously visible.

The Arbour HRI has electronic charts; notes are added by computer, and there doesn't seem to be a way for patients to add what they have to say to their records.

I think that hospital record systems that are all done by computer should have a function that allows patients to make amendments to their charts.  Patients who can type should be allowed to type their amendments.  Wouldn't a scanning system allow patients who can't type to have their written amendments electronically photographed and added to their charts that way?


Copyright L. Kochman, December 8, 2014 @ 10:23 p.m