1. An electronic medical charting system comprising: a user interface presenting a medical chart template, the medical chart template comprising: a plurality of recording areas configured to enable a user to enter predetermined categories of data reflecting a patient's condition; and a charting by exception recording area configured to enable a user to enter an indication that at least one predetermined category of data on the medical chart template has been reviewed, and is normal, unless an entry other than normal has been recorded in the corresponding recording area for said at least one predetermined category; a data processor programmed to, when the indication is entered in the charting by exception area: review at least one predetermined recording area of the medical chart, identify a recording area of said at least one predetermined recording areas where no data indicating abnormality has been entered, and make a record that a predetermined category of data corresponding to the identified recording area is normal.