Tracking Document Input Times

There is a new button at the bottom of the patient activity page labeled ‘I/O’, short for in and out.  Pressing the button on a document will show each time an employee worked on the document, showing the employee’s name, start time, and end time.  Currently this feature is geared mainly for major assessments (OASIS and other), progress notes, and documents such as physician orders, 485s, communication notes etc.  We have been internally tracking this information for many assessments and progress notes over the past several weeks, depending upon which version of the software you are running (main and clinical) and when you did updates.  The most recent software update also tracks the time for the additional documents mentioned above.  As time goes on we will track this information on additional records.  We hope this feature will be helpful to agencies tracking when information is being entered.