Please see question from one of our clinical audiologists -
Currently, the Audiology staff completes progress notes in the Physician progress notes for a patient seen concurrently in ENT clinic on any given day. Then, the audiologist ALSO completes their OWN progress note as a separate provider. Very time-consuming…..
To simplify and speed up the process, and facilitate patient flow, we are wondering if there is a way to eliminate the dual entries by ONLY entering notes as the Audiology Provider BUT having both the MD and the Audiologist progress notes linked when reports are send to referring physicians by the MD’s., so that the description of the Audiology results would come with the report without having to be entered separately into the Physician note. If so, the Physician could lock his notes whenever convenient, but when sending reports the Audiology progress notes would link somehow, i.e. so if you open Physician progress note, the audiology note opens also.
Any insight on this is greatly appreciated!
Heather