Over the coming years more and more medical billing and medical coding professionals will be needed to enter patient information into computer databases to comply with Federal legislation mandating the use
of electronic patient records.
HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS • Deep understanding of contemporary medical care interventions • Compliance to hospital sanitation and hygiene clinic requirements • Well versed in dealing with patients from diverse and varied cultural groups effectively • Skilled in general ambulatory care • Substantial knowledge of family planning and women's health issues • Trained in patient case filing and management • Demonstrated ability to develop excellent patient care plans in collaboration with consulting physicians • Genuine compassion with ability to communicate effectively with patients • Proficient in MS office suite programs and handling
of electronic patient data bases • Bilingual: Fluent in Spanish and English
Not exact matches
Also ask them to create a simple - to - use system, get rid
of fees for service billing and develop a straightforward national
electronic medical record built around great
patient care, not billing.
Increasingly, says Greven, health care providers such as private hospitals are weaving Prompt Alert's technology into larger
electronic medical record (EMR) databases, thereby providing these organizations with a means
of communicating with
patients in highly practical ways that improve the bottom line at the same time.
«An all -
electronic format with barcode scanning brings elements to increase
patient safety and decrease errors because the
patient and the unit
of blood are positively identified as well as matched against the provider's transfusion order,» says nursing informaticist Meg Furukawa.
A combination
of the
electronic bar coding and digital clinical decision support apparatus reduced blood transfusions, which in turn is a win for
patient safety.
The new offering, «Watson for
Patient Safety,» will gobble up anonymized medical records, claims data, and millions
of electronic submissions to the FDA about potential drug side effects (known as individual case safety reports) to see if it can learn about the hidden dangers
of medicines before they become too costly.
The platform combines data from real - time location systems (RTLS), such as
electronic health records and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems, to improve the flow
of patients within the hospital or clinic.
The company's Apple Watch, due for release in April, promises to add to the range
of possible data, which with
patients» consent can be sent to an
electronic medical record for doctors to view.
In addition to improving the physician -
patient relationship, the tech streamlines the process
of note taking, immediately storing it in the
electronic health record server.
Female doctors can remotely access
patients via high - definition (HD), nurse - assisted video - consultation using a cloud - based telemedicine system that includes
Electronic Medical Records (EMR), online medical online referral system and application
of peripheral diagnostic tools such as blood pressure sensors, pulse oximeter, e-thermometer, e-ophthalmoscope, etc..
For the first trial, half
of the women had pre - and postnatal lactation consultant visits and their doctors were reminded by
electronic prompts to speak to the
patients about breastfeeding during office visits.
«Neuromuscular
electronic stimulation (TENS unit) may help some
patients, but most
patients can find their strength without the use
of this machine,» said Dr. Weiss.
He is an expert in the use
of systems - based methods to improve
patient outcomes, a leading researcher in use
of large scale clinical laboratories and
electronic health records to improve the effectiveness and efficiency
of care, and a nationally recognized thought leader in the very methods needed to transition to the future
of lower - cost, more
patient - centered, health care for the 21st century.
The Independent has learnt that just 160 health organisations out
of about 9,000 are using
electronic patient records delivered under the scheme.»
As a HIT Specialist, you will be responsible for organizing
patients» medical record into
electronic databases, verifying
patients» medical charts, and communicating with physicians to ensure the accuracy
of their diagnoses.
«The vast majority
of patient data gathered and stored in
electronic health records is totally unstructured,» said Zach Weinberg, president
of Flatiron Health, a medical software company.
In the review, «Teen Use
of Electronic Cigarettes,» published in the Journal
of Addictions Nursing, Campbell - Heider calls on health care professionals to place this form
of nicotine delivery on their radar when seeing young
patients.
Some are even capable
of automatically pulling information from a
patient's current
electronic records, thereby reducing the need for doctors to reenter the same information.
«Much
of the decisions that physicians and
patients make has shifted from pen and paper to digital environments such as the
electronic health record and
patient portals,» Patel said.
In the study, researchers from the Perelman School
of Medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania programmed
electronic health records (EHR) to alert care providers when a
patient was eligible, and prompt them to choose to «accept» or «decline» a flu vaccination order.
This project seeks to demonstrate the extracting
of clinical trial data and
patient health care records from a single
electronic source.
Using the
electronic health records
of patients from the Veterans Health Administration between 1998 and 2007, researchers were able to determine the likelihood that a diagnosis
of pancreatic cancer follows a diagnosis
of acute pancreatitis, how often pancreatic cancer is preceded by acute pancreatitis, and the time between an initial episode
of acute pancreatitis and diagnosis
of pancreatic cancer.
This is precisely what a team
of researchers from the Gandia campus
of Valencia's Polytechnic University and the La Fe Health Investigation Institute have achieved, developing a prototype
of an
electronic nose that can distinguish between
patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
The researchers used
electronic medical record databases and insurance claims to determine rates
of diagnoses, prescription
of psychotropic medications and formal psychotherapy sessions received by white, Asian, black, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian / other Pacific Islander, Native American / Alaskan Native and mixed - race
patients.
The researchers matched
patient satisfaction responses to the corresponding de-identified
electronic medical record data
of 4,749
patients seen in the emergency room
of two New England hospitals.
Additional strategies such as use
of electronic tracking programs and smartphone pain apps may be valuable to improve communication between PCPs, pain specialists, and chronic pain
patients,» said Jamison.
The
electronic prompt - and - reminder system resulted in 76 percent
of 31,195
patients ages 19 - 64 and 85 percent
of 3,278
patients aged 11 to 18 being up - to - date on their immunization.
Vaccination rates for a critical booster shot tripled after clinics began using
electronic prompts alerting them
of patients needing the Tdap vaccine that protects against tetanus, diptheria, and whooping cough, according to a new study from the University
of Michigan Health System.
Every 10 minutes in the greater Houston area, SAPPHIRE receives reports on emergency room cases, descriptions
of patients» self - reported symptoms, updated
electronic health rec - ords, and clinicians» notes from eight hospitals that account for more than 30 percent
of the region's emergency room visits.
Dr. Frankel is currently directing or co-directing projects related to the ethical and policy implications
of human germ - line interventions, the responsible use
of animals in biomedical and behavioral research, improving
patient safety and reducing errors in health care, the ethical dimensions
of the Human Genome Diversity Project, the uses
of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for
electronic publishing in science.
After collecting millions
of tweets from across the globe, they used text - mining techniques to zoom in on relevant tweets in the ZIP codes where most
of the hospital's
patients live, according to
electronic medical records.
Researchers at Binghamton University, State University
of New York have devised a new way to protect personal
electronic health records using a
patient's own heartbeat.
In addition,
electronic medical record reports may not be a reliable indicator
of just how many hepatitis C
patients may be suffering from cirrhosis.»
Hospitals are increasingly using
electronic - monitoring equipment to track
patients, employees and medical devices to prevent them from going the way
of the Junior Mint Seinfeld's Kramer infamously dropped into an open surgical
patient.
During a four - year period from 2013 - 2017, the researchers analyzed
patient data from the Johns Hopkins
electronic medical record system (Epic)
of 487,104 black women ages 18 and over.
Half
of the
patients» primary care providers received the full TOPCARE intervention and half
of the primary care providers received only
electronic decision support tools (mytopcare.org).
Using
electronic health records, insurance claims and demographic data, the researchers studied
patients who received a new diagnosis
of depression in primary care settings in five large health care systems between 2010 and 2013.
Dudley and his colleagues trained the system by feeding it 12 years» worth
of electronic health records, including test results and hospital visits, from 700,000
patients.
«This could be the result
of patients not receiving emergency care where they receive outpatient care as different health systems utilize different
electronic medical records — and many times, these event records never make it to the outpatient provider.
If it detects that a
patient has indications
of sepsis, such as signs
of infection, it issues an
electronic alert to the
patient's nurse.
In this study, researchers reviewed
electronic medical records
of 100 child pedestrian emergency department visits at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pa. from January 1 to December 21, 2012, including ambulance dispatch data,
patient demographics, procedure (s), diagnoses, and length
of stay.
During this phase
of the process, the
patient uses an
electronic wand to download data from the device on a daily basis.
The three behavioral interventions, implemented alone or in combination, were: suggested alternatives, which presented
electronic order sets suggesting nonantibiotic treatments; accountable justification, which prompted clinicians to enter free - text justifications for prescribing antibiotics into
patients»
electronic health records; and peer comparison, which sent emails to clinicians that compared their antibiotic prescribing rates with those
of «top performers» (those with the lowest inappropriate prescribing rates).
Scott immediately sent an
electronic message to the physician, co-author Dr. Alex Henderson, at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals in England, in order learn more about the clinical characteristics
of his
patient.
This large study used information from
electronic patient records to assess the take - up
of the two vaccines.
Allison E. Curry, Ph.D., M.P.H.,
of the Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia (CHOP), and coauthors linked
electronic health records to New Jersey traffic safety databases for more than 18,000 primary care
patients of the CHOP health care network born from 1987 to 1997.
This data linked
patient genetic data with versions
of those individuals»
electronic health records that were stripped
of identifying details such as names and addresses.
After reviewing and collecting data from each
of the
patients»
electronic medical record, researchers found that CREDO had a significant impact.
Beyond the more typical uses for weight loss aids,
electronic activity monitors may also be useful for
patients when they are released from the hospital as a measure
of recovery and quality
of life.