Medical Record Keeping CME Course

Medical Record Keeping CME Course 2023 is organized by Western Institute of Legal Medicine (WILM) and will be held from Feb 25 - 26, 2023.

Description:
This Medical Record Keeping CME Course is designed for clinicians who would like to improve their medical record-keeping skills. Attendees will learn best practices that will ensure that their medical records meet risk management standards, laws, and regulations applicable to medical documentation.

This course covers topics such as proper documentation, common documentation errors, and deficiencies, releasing patient records with and without authorization, medical record confidentiality, and medical record analysis.

These skills will help improve medical care and enable more accurate communications between care providers. This intensive two-day long course is critical for clinicians who have been found deficient in medical documentation either by hospitals or by regulatory agencies and has been approved by the California Medical Board as meeting the coursework requirements of physician probation.

This course meets the requirements of California Medical Board licensee probation.

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
• Apply medical record-keeping skills which will decrease legal risks, improve patient safety, and facilitate continuity of patient care;
• Integrate understanding of patients and their families of the provided health care;
• Protect patients’ legal rights relating to the use of their medical records;
• Learn and comply with legal responsibilities relating to documentation and information disclosure; and
• Enhance cooperation among members of the healthcare team.