The Chief Complaint, History, and Physical
Chapter 1 Bedside Questions · 8 questions · about 8 minutes
The chief complaint and the history and physical: the degraded clinical encounter is the presenting symptom, and no one took the history or examined the patient before prescribing technology.
The chief complaint, operationally: whether your technology decisions start from a clinical question, and whether anyone owns what they do to care, safety and revenue. Answer Yes only when someone can produce the evidence today.
Answer as your executive team would, with the evidence in hand. Each question has a factual answer in a system you already own.
Does your organization require a documented clinical priority before any technology feature is activated or configured?
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Who governs clinical technology decisions? Is it a physician with formal informatics training and explicit authority to stop, modify, or require a deployment?
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