…when you log in to your EHR and click a chart, you’re leaving digital fingerprints, and your access to various parts of the chart is timestamped. While these features may be helpful to protect patient privacy and ensure best practices, they’ve also found their way into malpractice cases.
The promise and peril of metadata
Logging every action a physician takes on an electronic health record has legal risks, but also the potential benefit. At the very least, metadata can tell us about how we practice.
Source: epmonthly.com
