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HIT 220 Chapter 8
Administrative Systems
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Administrative information systems | a category of healthcare information systems that supports human resources management, financial management, executive decision support, and other business-related functions |
Admission, discharge, transfer (ADT) | the administrative information system that stores basic demographic information and performs those functions related to admitting, discharging,and transferring a patient |
Chargemaster | a financial management form that contains information about the organization's charges for healthcare services it provides to patients: also called charge description master |
Decision support system | computer based system gathers data from a variety of sources & assists in providing structure to the data by using analytical models & visual tools in order to facilitate & improve the ultimate outcome in decision making tasks |
deterministic algorithm | look for exact matches, looks at data elements like name, birth,gender,and Social security number. The accuracy rate is 20-40% |
Enterprise master patient index(EMPI) | integrated delivery systems typically EMPI's, allows all of the components of the IDS to share information about the patient Medical record # assigned may be the same for all hospitals, ambulatory settings, & other components of the system |
Executive information system(EIS) | a type of decision support system that is designed to be used by healthcare administrators,must be easy to use & have access to a wide range of data. A lot of graphs & charts generally are used as part of the results |
financial information system | the administration system that manages the financial activities of a healthcare facility, may also be called financial applications |
Hospital information system | comprehensive database containing all the clinical, administrative, financial, and demographic information about each patient served by a hospital |
Human resources information system(HRIS) | tracks employees within the organization , tracking includes promotions, transfers, performance appraisal due dates, and absenteeism |
Materials management information system | manages the supplies and equipment within the facility |
Master Patient Index(MPI) | patient identifying directory referencing all patients related to an organization & which also serves as a link to the patient record or information, facilities, patient identification,assists in maintaining a patient record from birth to death |
Patient Registration | frequently known as ADT , this system collects data on the patient from pre-admission to discharge |
Practice management system | software designed to help medical practices run more smoothly & efficiently |
Probabilistic algorithm | able to identify transpositions & name changes and can use phonetic search capabilities |
Registration- Admission discharge, transfer(R-DAT) | type of administrative information system that stores demographic information & performs functionality related to registration, admission, discharge, & transfer of patients within the organization |
Revenue cycle | process of how patient financial & health information moves into, through, & out of the healthcare facility, culminating with the facility receiving reimbursement for services provided |
Rules- based algorithm | algorithm that can be used to determine the probability that a patient has duplicate medical record numbers in the master patient index |
Scheduling system | system used to control the use of resources through the organization, can include staff, equipment, rooms, and more. May be centralized or independent |