Integrating clinical, financial information: improving patient management.
The need for integrated financial and clinical information is becoming increasingly important to financial managers and clinicians alike. Typical billing systems collect only a small amount of clinical information. But by using billing systems more creatively--superimposing a clinical classification system on a billing system--hospital managers could retrieve clinical information from the billing system without undergoing chart review. The hospital's largest database, its billing information, could be used to more efficiently manager patient care.
D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D000066:Accounting; D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records / Q000145:classification*; D010361:Patients; D014481:United States