Do Missing Mental Health Notes Undermine EHRs?

Circle Connections: Tech Updates As medical records move to the electronic world, a long-standing tradition has carried over from the days of paper: separating psychiatric records from the rest of patient information. The American Psychiatric Assn. (APA) and others are calling for the separation to end. They want patients to have the ability to share their mental health records with other physicians and care team members in the same way the rest of their records are managed. Experts say the wider sharing of psychiatric records will require greater patient education as well as physician education about who sees what . . .