In the health care industry, there is a common adage: If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. For a combination of legal, medical and billing reasons, doctors spend hours every day in front of ...

Writing has cognitive benefits that improve quality of thinking and problem-solving ...

Health care systems have been putting therapists’ progress reports online, much to the surprise (and anger) of some patients. By Christina Caron Stunned. Ambushed. Traumatized. These were the words ...

When patients receive services from mental health professionals (MHPs), they have a right to informed consent (Barsky, 2023). Informed consent includes the right to understand what kinds of records ...

Note-sharing is a tool many physicians utilize to share office notes with patients, according to Kaiser Health News. 1. Many patients do not ignore health issues when they are visible in writing. 2.