A Team Approach to Documenting Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

Resource: Team Documentation

Clinicians often report that they are overwhelmed by documenting the care they provide. This online continuing medical education (CME) module explains how to implement a team-based approach to documentation. Team documentation allows multiple staff members to complete different parts of the electronic health record to distribute work more efficiently, supporting Key Driver 3: Optimize health information systems to extract data and support use of evidence in practice and Key Driver 4: Create and support high functioning teams to deliver high-quality evidence-based care.

Institution of origin: American Medical Association

Author(s): Sinsky, C

Copyright information: © 2017 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.

Acknowledgements: Developed in partnership with Society of General Internal Medicine.

Publication date: October 2014

Note: This module is accessible via website and as a downloadable PDF.