Dr. RW writes about how P4P will lead to an increase in chart games. EMRs already gives notes added verbosity (via templates and cut/paste), leading to an increase in coding. Once P4P comes into play, expect the templates to gear towards P4P goals – at the expense of meaningful clinical information.
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