Question

Discuss the important role that health care workers play in documentation, confidentiality, maintenance and credibility of the medical record.

Answer 1

Health care workers should deliver quality and continuity of care and they can achieve that only by having complete and accurate patient record documentation. The patient record documentation serves as a communication tool among healthcare providers, it ensures continuity of care, plans and evaluates a patient’s treatment . This function of the healthcare workers is of great importance, because it creates a permanent record for the patient’s future care and a database to evaluate effectiveness of treatment.

Answer 2

Healthcare workers play an incredibly important role in the documentation, confidentiality, maintenance and credibility of the medical record since they are the ones recording the information and are entrusted not to share with anyone who is not authorized.