It doesn't matter if it is a monkey who wrote the data. You can't take it out. Now, I know some damn good medical monkeys. There needs to be an audit trail, and I am sure everyone has seen it.
Not a complete SQL expert, but there are tables and fields with a doctor's initials and the sentence and the monkey's initials and the sentence. It's pretty difficult to take out the whole thing without screwing up the database.
Then you have who is a non-licensed med tech and just a med tech. And, what is licensed and what is not as far as what data should stay in.
All entries into the database has to be permanent. I can remote into your computer and delete and progress note you want or change your 105.0 to 100.5. But, if your secretary sent a copy of the records without your knowledge and there is that 100.5 entry after the other, your whole career is down the drain.
