Question

Health Information Management

Exercise 8-3 Case Abstracting

2. Discuss the importance of case abstracting as related to case mix analysis.

3. List the advantages and disadvantages of automated and manual abstracting systems.

4) What is the significance of the term "batched" case abstracts?

5) Define "data set," and list and describe at least three data sets.

6) What is the purpose of the Medical Information Bureau (MIB) and the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)?

Answer 1

ANSWERS :

1. CASE ABSTRACTING : Case abstracting is defined as a automated manual process which is performed by the department of health information staff for the purpose of patient information collection for prospective payment system status, indexes generation, and to improve federal, state agencies quality by reporting data.

2. IMPORTANCE OF CASE ABSTRACTING : The importance of case abstracting as related to case mix analysis are as follows:

* Collects data

* Generates statistical reports for case mix analysis.

3. ADVANTAGES OF AUTOMATED ABSTRACTING SYSTEMS :

* Calculates PPS reimbursement

* Storage of case abstracts

* Special reports generation

* Input of case abstract data

DISADVANTAGES OF AUTOMATED  ABSTRACTING SYSTEMS :

* High cost to buy software and hardware

* Requires maintenance for software

* Only one staff can enter data

* Training is costlier

ADVANTAGES OF MANUAL ABSTRACTING SYSTEMS :

* Cost is low

* Fast training

* Requires multiple staff members to abstract

DISADVANTAGES OF MANUAL ABSTRACTING SYSTEMS :

* Requires paper forms

* Report generation is completed by vendor

* For generating special reports extra cost is required.

Answer 2

Case abstracting is important relating to case mix analyst which is a city of the types of patients treated by the facility which generates reports in statistics