Electronic health records management platform and methods

An electronic health records (EHR) management platform, the platform comprising:

• a communication module for recording and time stamping communications occurring during a patient's stay at a healthcare facility and generating a communication log of the communications;
• a hand-off logging module for recording information relating to the patient's hand-off from receiving health services in the healthcare facility from a first healthcare provider to a second healthcare provider and for recording information relating to any subsequent hand-offs of the patient to other healthcare providers, wherein the recorded hand-off information includes the names of the healthcare providers providing health services to the patient and a time stamp associated with each hand-off, wherein the hand-off logging module further generates a hand-off log including the recorded hand-off information and the patient's clinical information;
• a hand-off threading module for generating a hand-off thread that includes a respective clinical synopsis relating to the patient by each named healthcare provider associated with a recorded hand-off;
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• a user interface that enables a user to view at least one of the patient's hand-off log, the patient's communication log, and the patient's hand-off thread.