Rhit Study Guide White Board Notes 2023 With Complete Solutions

Utilization Review. - ANSWER-Process of determining whether the medical service provided to a specific Medicare or Medicaid patient is necessary. Daily inpatient census - ANSWER-official count of inpatients present at midnight, which is calculated each day Also included are any patients who were admitted and discharged the same day Vocabulary standards - ANSWER-provide consistent descriptions of medical terms for an individual's condition in the health record Custodian Records - ANSWER-When records for evidence is involved at the trial, the records custodian is called a witness by one party or other to testify as the authenticity of a record as evidence. The records custodian verifies that it contains information about the individual. flowchart - ANSWER-a graphic tool that uses standard symbols to visually display detailed information, including time and distance, of the sequential flow of work of an individual or a product as it progresses through a process fish bone chart - ANSWER-a performance improvement tool used to identify or classify the root causes of a problem or condition and to display the root causes graphically; also called the cause and effect diagram Aggregated Data - ANSWER-Data that has been extracted from individual health records and combined to form deidentified information about groups of patients that can be compared. Overlay - ANSWER-Mistakenly assigned another persons health record number. Overlap - ANSWER-When a patient has more than one health record number at different locations within an enterprise. Duplicate Record - ANSWER-2 or more medical record numbers. Security - ANSWER-To control/protect access of health information and records. ROI Turnaround Time - ANSWER-Time between receipt of request and when the request is sent to the requester 30 days on site, 60 days off site