Question

The dialysis setting is another area where health information management professionals can lend their expertise. What role/duties do you think a health information management professional might have in this setting?

Answer 1

Following are the roles that a health information management professionsal have:

Ensure that patient information is secure and protected

Improve healthcare quality by reducing medical errors, health disparities, and by advancing the delivery of patient-centered medical care

Reduce healthcare costs resulting from inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate care, duplicative care, and incomplete information

Provide appropriate information to help guide medical decisions at the time and place of care

Improve the coordination of care and information among hospitals, laboratories, physician offices, and other entities for the secure and authorized exchange of healthcare information

Improve public health activities and facilitating the early identification and rapid response to public health threats

Facilitate health and clinical research and healthcare quality

Promote early detection, prevention, and management of chronic diseases.