Question

There are a variety of registries that provide a chronological listing of patients with a common characteristic. These registries provide a detailed data that may then be used to determine patient care trends over time, among other reasons. This type of secondary data is maintained by each healthcare organization and is often created by health information management (HIM) professionals. As an HIM professional what additional registries, What else do you think would be helpful for a healthcare organization? Why would these registries be important? (you need to justify your reasoning). Minimum of 2 additional registries!

Answer 1

Registries are used to improve healthcare quality and ensures the safety of implanted devices. The data from the various registries are used to compare treatments and their effects on patients. Two major registries that should be maintained by the health information management professionals are clinical data registry and computerized disease registry.

Clinical data registry provides the health status of patients and the care they receive over different periods of time. This registry is extremely important to understand the effects of various medicines and their characteristics. Similarly, a computerized disease registry is used for the tracking of patient care and basically it is a database containing a server, database management system software and management tools to collect and store patient information.