Chapter 7 Flashcards
What are the types of microfilm?
1) roll microfilm
2) jacket microfilm
3) microfiche
What is microfilming and what should be considered when copying?
Microfilm is the process of producing many photograph copies
Should consider:
- The type and amount of information
- updating it
- accessing it
- budget
General considerations for purchase of supplies?
- Quality of product
- design function
- costs
- reliability of manufacture
purchase considerations
- Size
- tabs
- folder weight
- reinforcement on top and tabs
- Color
- pre-printing info such as logos
- pockets
- fasteners
- expandability, thickness
Retention considerations
- State statutes and regulations
- facility needs
- Storage space
- Deactivation -active:3-5years
Options of retention for medical records
- destruction of records
- off-site storage
- micrographics or optical imaging
Methods of destroying paper records
Burning, shredding, pulping, pulverizing
Methods for destroying microfilm
Recycle, pulverizing
Destroying electronic data
Magnetic Degaussing
Certificate of destruction
- date destructive
- method
- description of disposed records
- signed by two witnesses
Commercial storage considerations
- delivery
- maintain confidentiality of records
- Insurance if fire theft flood
- billing terms
- guarantee record return
- Record tracking
Types of health record analysis
1-quantitative
2-qualitative
3-statistical
Quantitative analysis
A list of deficiencies for the health record:
- patient identification: on every page
- all authorization present
- all forms and reports are correct and present
Delinquent record
When an incomplete record is not returned within a number of days (usually 15 to 30 days)
Fill out a deficiency slip that indicates what reports are missing
Elements of good documentation
- legibility
- readability
- timeliness
- error correction
- no gaps
Compensable event
And event during the hospitalization which might become a lawsuit
Responsibilities of HIM committee
- timeliness and accuracy of record
- Health records clinically pertinent
- Useful and quality assessment and legal document
- determining format of medical records
- developing policies and procedures
Outguides
Plastic folders in the file area to replace a record that’s been removed
Requisition slip
A paper in the larger pocket of the outguide in which gives information about the record removed and where it is
Contains:
Patients name, record number, person requesting the record, date the record was signed
Computerized record tracking system
Stores current and past locations of record
Activity ratio
of requests / #of records on file
Accuracy ratio
Records located / # records requested