Application Of A Master Patient Index

In the medical field there have been a lot of technological advances and making health records electronic is one of them. The days of having a paper health record are almost obsolete. An electronic health record keeps a patient’s medical information and history on a computer which is accessible to more people in less time. I will explain how the continuity, communication, coordination and accountability of the electronic health record can help the medical office. I will explain what can be included in the electronic health record. As an advocate of the electronic health record I will also explain some disadvantages to the electronic system.

Clinical documentation Improvement (CDI) is the program or the training that is design to provide the good link between coders and health care providers that increase the accuracy and completeness of patient health care documentation. According to American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) tool kit CDI is the program especially design for health care field for initiate concurrent and, as appropriate, retrospective review of patient health records for accurate, incomplete, or nonspecific provider documentation (Scharffenberger and Kuehn 2011). Most of the time patient health record review occur in inpatient location but it there is any confusion then the review can go through electronic health records too. CDI play a vital role solving complex case between coder and health care provider that result in easy and smooth operation of reimbursement process in health care organization for the service they provide to patient.

The use of technology in HIM department works out well and effectively. Each patient who is new is assigned a unique medical record number and it always remains the same for the patient each time he/she want to get health care from this health care system. Another system

One of the challenges of health information exchange is privacy and security. Even though having electronic health information exchange reduces a lot of privacy and security issues, it raises new issues as well. A breach that formerly affected a single paper record now can expose an entire database of patient records. At the same time, health information exchange presents powerful new ways to improve the privacy and security of patients ' data, including encryption, authentication and authorization controls, and electronic audit trails. Two of the biggest challenges we’ve encountered are patient matching/master patient index synchronization issues and the vendors’ variable use of interoperability standards. The biggest issues we’ve experienced, so far are relate to the MPI synchronization of patients across all the entities. Public HIEs, as well as the private HIE vendors, should focus on this challenge. Technically, interoperable platforms, EHR’s, are often hindered by the inability to determine an exact patient match, because the eMPI solutions aren’t robust enough. This also potentially creates data integrity and patient safety issues, if the clinical data goes across multiple records. There also some struggles with the variable use of the interoperability standards between the EHR vendors. One of

Examination of the types of database systems that are available and how health care facilities utilize these different types of databases is the topic of this report. Giving more detail on the different types of architecture of databases and data structure will follow.

13). The clinical services department within the hospital is responsible for the accurate charting of any procedure or service that was provided to the patient. This process begins with patient registration and verification. The healthcare provider then will perform their job as necessary and will indicate what billable tasks were performed which can later be processed. The patient accounts department is responsible for going through the patient’s chart and recording the patient’s bill by use of the hospital’s chargemaster to send the bill to the payer by the health information department. In this department the initial coding of the patient’s medical record is done. Once overviewed for the sake of accuracy, the final coding is done and sent to the payer. Any inaccuracies by any of these departments could directly impact the hospitals reimbursement process through a slowing for the process or simply by failing to bill for a procedure performed, ultimately hurting the hospital’s financial stability. The patient financial services (PFS) department is responsible for ensuring compliance within the billing and coding policies through training and with quality assurance checks and regular audits. This ensures that the revenue and reimbursement cycle continues without any inaccuracies in patient charges. It is especially important to have quality management within this department, as it has the potential to affect the entire organization, reflective of the institutes financial situation. Poor PFS management can lead to a loss in revenue and can lead to a loss in budget if the hospital is losing too much as a result. Ensuring compliance with medical coding and billing guidelines and policies ensures a more accurate representation of the hospitals financial and budgetary situations, while

The potential sources of the problem that most of the healthcare institutions are experiencing could be that the healthcare organizations have not trained its staff or employees on how to do data entry as well as protection of the data that contains the information of the treatment cost as well as services. For that reason, the organizations should always train its staff on how to do data entry process and protect the data from being accessed by the unauthorized persons who could manipulate the data. The supervisors of the healthcare organizations are then supposed to be monitoring and also reviewing the process of entering data. That is to avoid the data inputted into the system being inaccurate. Another possible problem that they

 Maintenance of complete and accurate medical records for each patient as described in RC.01.01.01. This standard was also identified by JACHO as top compliance issue for the industry.

The Canadian health care system is certainly unique in its features…. Despite, the fact that the Canadian health care system is one of the most evolved in the world, it lacks a sense of an efficiency effective mission, in which would improve the quality and accessibility of health care in the management perspective. In this paper we will analyze current ineffective practices, and alternate methods; in regards to patient information records on a large scale. Thus, by the removal of the traditional paper records in regards to patient information will prove to be an in effective process, calling for a technological evolution of health information by the means of Computerized Patient Records. Through the process of EMR’s the desired target would be to lead Canadian health care towards a future with an integrated delivery system, in which connects health care under one unified system. furthermore, EMR’s will lead to a more effective and efficient patient care. And lastly the introduction of the system would lead to a more effective allocation of resources in health care, thus looking at the cost in relation to the benefit. Thus the introductions of Computerized Health Records on a large scale would relive the financial and derivative stress on the health care economics, and system, and in so doing the use of EMR’s would strengthen the nations productivity

Quality is something that many medical care institutions have advocated for. With the innovation of Electronic Health Records, healthcare facilities as well as institutions were consumed with the concerns of how medical records were being handled. Currently there are many national organizations as well as some of the government agencies who are trying to pursue the cause of quality and patient safety (GAO, 2010). Although, Electronic Health Records are presumed to bring quality to the way healthcare data is being handled,

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of biomedical informatics in many aspects of the healthcare system. This is due to an increasing recognition that a stronger healthcare information system is crucial to achieve a higher quality care at lower costs1. Biomedical informatics is defined as “the scientific field that deals with biomedical data, information and knowledge-their storage, retrieval, and optimal use for problem solving and decision making.”2Biomedical informatics plays significant roles in the healthcare system and it has been applied in various ways in the healthcare system, specifically in the aspect of health care information system such as electronic medical record (EMR), personal health record (PHR), computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems, bar-coding medication administration systems, telemedicine, telehealth, and administrative information systems 2.

Health information technique is biggest term in today’s era, technology used for various administrative, operations management, and direct clinical functions in health care organization. An electronic health record (EHR) is define by the Health Information Management System Society (HIMSS) as a longitudinal electronic record of patient health information generated by one or more encounter in any health care setting including patient demographics, progress

The Computerized Provider Order Entry is effective program to help organization improve quality measures and financial margins. The CPOE is effective program; which monitors a hospitals current performance and calculates methods of improvement. For example, Trinity Hospital a leader in clinical intelligence to track and report across it members hospitals on systems wide quality measures (Balgrosky, 2015). The Clinical Provider Order Entry will help patients compare programs graded by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid and Hospital Quality Assurance. This program will further enhance the patient-centric model because patients will have comprehensive comparison of hospitals to make informed medical decision as to where they would like to receive treatment. The quality measures monitor readmission, complications, patient’s experience surveys and other categories. Patients are interested in receiving health care in top-notched care facilities that address their needs. Consumer needs are very important because translating into referrals by word-of-mouth or rankings. Technology plays a major role in an organization's success with supports Judy Murphy idea of enhancing patient’s health information technology

Health information management involves the practice of maintaining and taking care of health records in hospitals, health insurance companies and other health institutions, by the use of electronic means (McWay 176). Storage of medical information is carried out by health information management and HIT professionals using information systems that suit the needs of these institutions. This paper answers four major questions concerning health information systems.

In today’s medical field technology plays a big role when it comes to patient care. Technology is huge when it comes to giving the patient the best type of quality care when they are in the hospital. In the old days people would just write it down on a sheet of paper and record it by hand, which caused mistakes. Now with the Electronic Health Record those mistakes are drastically declining. Statistics have shown that using the Electronic Health Record has lowered Nursing mistakes as well as improved patient care. Our society has progressed through the years and has been introduced with the Electronic Health Record which has drastically improved our health care system. The Electronic Health Record provides great communication between