Purposes of the Medical Record
When the health record is used to evaluate the quality of care provided, it is called this.
What is management of patient care?
These people use the medical record to monitor the services provided to patients by their employees.
Who are patient care managers?
These organizations use medical records to train healthcare workers.
What are colleges and universities?
This is the process of giving patient-identifiable information from the health record to another party.
What is disclosure of health information?
This is a disadvantage of alphabetic filing of medical records.
What is no unique identifier when two patients have the same name?
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What is the files don't expand evenly on the shelves?
When the medical record is used as a form of communication between providers, it is being used for this.
These people analyze the medical record to determine the appropriate codes to apply for billing and reporting purposes.
Who are coders and billers?
These organizations use the medical record to determine if a healthcare organization is in compliance with standards and regulations.
What are accrediting organizations?
This the process of extracting elements of data from a source document or database and entering them into an automated system.
What is abstracting?
Give the correct order of this medical record number for terminal digit filing - 59-27-31.
What is 31-27-59?
When the medical record is being used for the education of healthcare professionals, it is this purpose level.
What is secondary?
These people use medical records to manage wellness programs and process insurance claims.
Who are employers?
These organizations use the medical record to justify treatment, and ensure proper reimbursement.
This is one of the advantages of a document management system.
What is the ability to control the workflow electronically?
The most active area in files is the higher numbers, which are the most current files, in this filing system.
What is straight numeric?
When the information in a medical record is being used to determine what traditional and nontraditional treatments are effective for new diseases, it is being used for this purpose.
What is public health and research?
These people use medical records to study the safety of drugs.
Who are healthcare reseachers and/or clinical investigators?
These organizations evaluate the quality and appropriateness of the care provided to the patient.
What are medical review organizations?
This was maintained on index cards prior to making it electronic.
What is the master patient index?
This patient numbering system consolidates all the information on a patient in one location.
What is the unit numbering system?
When the medical record is being used to make decisions for the future of a healthcare organization, it is being used for this purpose.
These people use medical records to become informed consumers of healthcare.
Who are patients?
These organizations use the medical record use the health record to provide care.
Besides paper and an EMR, medical records may be stored these two ways.
What are microfilm and scanned images?
This is the advantage of the EHR when it comes to patient numbering.
What is that identifiers other than the health record number can be used to retrieve the information?