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Designing the "Quality Health Record"
- Threats:
- High cost of dictation and transcription, storage and retrieval/release of information
- Fragmentation and case mix (lower productivity)
- Continuity of care, handoffs, and communication
- Ongoing "Quality Health Record" projects:
- Concurrent quality documentation review and dialogue with physicians, coding and DRG assignment
- Structured physician documentation templates (PN2G), including diagnosis
- Standard terminology definitions for documentation and coding classification
- Voice recognition and medical documentation quality review
- Document management (scanning) and Imaging
- "Virtual" environment—working remote and load balancing
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