Meeting increased demands for medical record information.
Increased volume, additional requests for the entire record, and skyrocketing costs are prompting hospital administrators to take a critical look at correspondence management. A consensus is emerging that correspondence management can and should be organized to enrich the hospital. This article reviews the reasons for the shift in attitude by administrators, explores many exciting challenges that lie ahead for medical record managers, and points to trends that will shape what we do in the 1990s.
D005544:Forecasting; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D008499:Medical Records; D014481:United States