Question

Define and discuss the relationship between clinical documentation improvement, electronic document management, and revenue cycle management.

Answer 1

CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION IMPROVEMENT:-
- It is the recognized process of improving healthcare records to ensure improved patient outcomes, data quality and accurate reimbursement.
- It is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary effort that includes the medical staff, clinical documentation specialists, inpatient coders.
- it is program that leads the accurate representation of a patient's clinical status that translates into coded data.

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT:-
- it is a software program that manages the creation, storage and control of document electronically of documents electronically.
- it manage information electronically.

REVENUE CYCLE MANAGEMENT:-
- this is the financial process, utilizing medical billing software, that healthcare facilities use to track patient care episodes from registration and appointment scheduling to the final payment of a balance.
- it is the process of managing claims processing, payment and revenue generation.
- this ensures care and payment are of equally high value.