Allow editing of Clinical Notes

[clinicoffice_user]

I have a question about this new option ‘Allow editing of Clinical Notes’ . Obviously turning this off is absolutely essential from a legal viewpoint and we want to use this function, but from a practical viewpoint we have some difficulties with it.

The key issue for us is that if you start a report/letter and need to leave it for any reason before completion you can not return to edit them further. Whilst this is fine once a form is finished, you can’t for example start a discharge note in a spare 5 minutes and then come back to it or as is often the case two clinicians can’t add sections to a letter. I would suggest that a solution here would be a draft function (as for example is possible for this post) that could be used for reports/letters. Once no longer a draft it is then saved and locked so that further editing would not be possible (thus staisfying legal requirements).

Is this a possibility or is there already a way to do this?

I note from previous posts that CO does keep a record when a clinical note has been updated but does it save exactly how a record has been edited? If not then, as far as I understand from a legal viewpoint (speaking to a former head of the discplinary committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons), the records are useless.

Thanks for your assistance

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