Question

1. Some facilities manage record completion policies via the hiring of physician liaisons or scribes to assist providers with documentation. In your opinion, what are some of the potential issues and benefits to this approach?

2. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of using software for analyzing chart deficiencies versus manual review by human analysts.

3. One of your facility’s primary goals in chart analysis is to verify that the documentation in the health record supports the diagnosis and reflects the patient's progress, clinical findings, and discharge status. Do you think this can be fully accomplished by the Chart Tracking software? Use your answers from the checklist in Question 1 to elaborate.

Answer 1

1. Some facilities manage record completion policies via the hiring of physician liaisons or scribes to assist providers with documentation. In your opinion, what are some of the potential issues and benefits to this approach?

Hiring of Physician Liaisons to manage the record completion is a good practice but this could be costly. Better arrangement will be to execute "Diagram Deficiency Tracking" programming. This can limit the expense in long run and can discover mistakes or errors that can be missed by human.