Administrative, Billing, and Financial Systems (Comp 5.9)
About this course
Examines the relationship of administrative, billing, and financial systems to the health care information system, explains applications that need to be integrated in health care information systems, explores health care organizations’ integration strategies, identifies the critical elements for integration of these systems with clinical information systems, and discusses how health care organizations may gain valuable insights from integrated data through data analytics and trending. Defines a master patient index or MPI and describes its core elements and discusses current trends to establish a unique patient identifier.
Lectures:
a. Managing the Business of Health Care
1. Relationship between systems
2. Applications for integration
3. Integration strategies
4. Critical elements for integration
5. Integrated data through data analytics and trending
b. Master Patient Index and the Unique Patient Identifiers
1. Definition of MPI
2. Core elements of MPI
3. Current trends
What you will learn
Objectives:
- Explain applications that need to be integrated in health care information systems
- Describe the strategies used by health care organizations to ensure integration of functions
- Discuss the critical elements needed to integrate billing, financial, and clinical systems
- Discuss the core elements of a Master Patient Index (MPI)
- Describe current trends to establish a Unique Patient Identifier (UPI)
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