Carol Schnippert: Deficit Analysis
Deficiency Analysis /Audit
Carol Schnippert
Professor Brown
HIM-1800
430791
Deficiency analysis or deficiency audits are reports generated by the Health Information Management Department in hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities and many other medical facility that utilize either paper or electronic health records. Concurrent review and retrospective review are the two most widely used in the HIM field.
Both concurrent and retrospective review are used in order find any mistakes that might be inside the medical records. Forms like admission and discharge papers, progress and nurses notes, physician’s orders, operative, lab, and pathology reports along with accounting and insurance forms. (AACP, 2016)
Carol Schnippert
Professor Brown
HIM-1800
430791
Deficiency analysis or deficiency audits are reports generated by the Health Information Management Department in hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities and many other medical facility that utilize either paper or electronic health records. Concurrent review and retrospective review are the two most widely used in the HIM field.
Both concurrent and retrospective review are used in order find any mistakes that might be inside the medical records. Forms like admission and discharge papers, progress and nurses notes, physician’s orders, operative, lab, and pathology reports along with accounting and insurance forms. (AACP, 2016)