ELECTRONIC PROGRESS NOTES

RECORD YOUR PATIENT’S PROGRESS

Stop trying to find your patient’s chart. All progress notes are done digitally.

One of the most important records for clinical care and communication with care team members now made easier.

NEWSLETTER
July 19, 2024
11:26 am

Progress notes are multidisciplinary and live records from physicians, nurses, consultants, therapists, and students and anyone else who contributes to the patient’s evolving journey in the hospital. These medical records grow over time and detail the clinical status of the patient during their course of hospitalization. It is one of the most widely used notes across the hospital, therefore going electronic with this work type will allow its users to experience numerous advantages.

Centro’s electronic progress note allows authorized clinicians to view, edit, or add to this live record of their patients 24/7, leading to smoother workflows and more efficient care delivery. The progress note can also be viewed by multiple people at the same time. The ongoing assessments are always legible with audit dates, times, and signatures.

Centro progress notes are flexible to ensure that the system supervisor can configure them to meet the hospital’s requirements. Multiple signatures can be required on a progress note before they are deemed electronically signed. This is especially useful for teaching hospitals. The collation of the documents can also be defined so that the order of the notes is by sign or start date, and oldest on top or at the end. In addition, the progress note’s view can be filtered by the end user by Title or Specialty, making it easier to view progress notes from a specific field of medicine.

On paper, making corrections to a progress note is simply done by pen directly on the note. But how does this work in the digital world? In Centro, if an edit to a progress note is needed, then a late correction entry can be used. A reason is requested as to why the late correction is being applied such as wrong patient, text correction, or other specified reason. Corrections can only be made by the person who originally created the progress note as other users’ notes are locked for edit. Any note that has a late correction is linked to the original note in the patient’s history, ensuring that clinicians are always accessing the most up-to-date record.