Integrating clinical, financial information: improving patient management
Mendenhall, S.
Healthcare Financial Management Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association 42(6): 54; 56 58-60
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0735-0732 PMID: 10287601 Document Number: 312932
The need for integrated financial and clinical information is becoming increasingly important to financial managers and clinicians alike. Typical billing systems collect only a small amount of clinical information. But by using billing systems more creatively--superimposing a clinical classification system on a billing system--hospital managers could retrieve clinical information from the billing system without undergoing chart review. The hospital's largest database, its billing information, could be used to more efficiently manager patient care.