HIS No Longer Printing and Mailing Op Notes and Discharge Summaries
BWH Health Information Services (HIS) no longer prints and mails hard copies of Operations Notes and Discharge Summaries to housestaff or attendings. The change in policy is part of an ongoing attempt to decrease unnecessary, excessive paper use. Op notes and discharge summaries are in your BICS queue for review and signature. Once the notes are signed, or if they are not signed after 21 days, they will become available in the LMR for printing. There will, however, be no changes to the carbon copying process. Copies of notes will be printed and mailed as specified at the time of dictation. This change was effective Feb. 1, after approval by the BWH Medical Records Committee. Direct questions to George Wilson in Health Information Services at ext. 2-5599.