Electronic medical record (EMR) templates can be a useful tool for clinicians to create truly defensible documentationas long as they dont rely on them too much.Templates should be customizable for each patient, not just placed in the record as a canned product, Sheila Sizemore, director of advisory and consulting services at Corridor Group, said during a webinar Wednesday. I think that the key here is balancing the template use with good clinical narrative summaries.

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