“Facilities thrive on control. They monitor the master patient index (MPI), review charts and audit databases–all to nip potential problems in the bud. Now, facilities must learn how to trust. Health information exchange (HIE) is imminent, and the move to make records more available also leaves data more vulnerable to contamination, duplication and mix-ups. Individual participants can prepare all they want, but bad data can snarl the exchange.
“There’s still not a great amount of awareness that if the core data integrity is not really good, then you’re going to spend a lot of money trying to make things exchange well and they won’t,” said Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, president and CEO of Just Associates, Aurora, CO.”
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Cheryl McEvoy, Advance, 16 December 2009
Excellent Blog.