Comments on: HIStalk Interviews Charlie Harp http://histalk2.com/2010/03/05/histalk-interviews-charlie-harp/ Healthcare IT News and Opinion Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:50:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: thejudge http://histalk2.com/2010/03/05/histalk-interviews-charlie-harp/comment-page-1/#comment-8219 thejudge Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:32:38 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2010/03/05/histalk-interviews-charlie-harp/#comment-8219 "with our focus being primarily — I always use the term “plumbers” of healthcare information." Just what medical care needs, plumbers!! If the medical care profession and medical records needs plumbers, the HIT industry needs an enema. “with our focus being primarily — I always use the term “plumbers” of healthcare information.”

Just what medical care needs, plumbers!!

If the medical care profession and medical records needs plumbers, the HIT industry needs an enema.

]]> By: Richard http://histalk2.com/2010/03/05/histalk-interviews-charlie-harp/comment-page-1/#comment-8217 Richard Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:45:49 +0000 http://histalk2.com/2010/03/05/histalk-interviews-charlie-harp/#comment-8217 Great article! I think the last paragraph pretty much sums it up, really what you are talking about is someones life and how the medical record will impact or could impact their life if the content is not continuously updated in the decision making process. Let's face it, how many facilities have the manpower to continuously update a patient record. After all, from what I have been told hospitals bond ratings are often judged on FTE's. And, when it comes to medical records, their staffs are usually overworked and underpaid along with being stressed out. Doctor's hate doumentation. Hospitals need to look at the the factory in medical records, determine they can't live without it (which is being forced on them now)and fund it accordingly until the technology is availible that can scan a patient record and pull all the pertinent details together and ask the questions, What if, why, when and what's missing from these records. Why does one coder code a document one way and another coder at the next desk code it a different way. Variability. How can that be solved? Currently it is non-revenue producing staff, transcription,speech recognition, coding, filing, scanning, faxing, billing, etc. All the back-end processes that pull a patient record together so that effective content can be fomulated, captured and billed to keep the doors open and quality patient care delivered. I believe some of the newer products with True NLP (Natural Language Processing) hold promise in solving some budget and better documentation issues. Great article! I think the last paragraph pretty much sums it up, really what you are talking about is someones life and how the medical record will impact or could impact their life if the content is not continuously updated in the decision making process. Let’s face it, how many facilities have the manpower to continuously update a patient record. After all, from what I have been told hospitals bond ratings are often judged on FTE’s. And, when it comes to medical records, their staffs are usually overworked and underpaid along with being stressed out. Doctor’s hate doumentation. Hospitals need to look at the the factory in medical records, determine they can’t live without it (which is being forced on them now)and fund it accordingly until the technology is availible that can scan a patient record and pull all the pertinent details together and ask the questions, What if, why, when and what’s missing from these records. Why does one coder code a document one way and another coder at the next desk code it a different way. Variability. How can that be solved? Currently it is non-revenue producing staff, transcription,speech recognition, coding, filing, scanning, faxing, billing, etc. All the back-end processes that pull a patient record together so that effective content can be fomulated, captured and billed to keep the doors open and quality patient care delivered. I believe some of the newer products with True NLP (Natural Language Processing) hold promise in solving some budget and better documentation issues.

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