Maintaining Health Records

Maintaining health records if one of the most important thing to do at the medical office setting. It is important to have everything accurate and in order. A health record is divided by sections for each patient. This is called a file with all the information necessary  from personal, health insurance, chief complaint, progress notes, consultation and more. This applies to electronic records and paper records.

Some medical offices have files stored in a cabinet, this means that medical records are still process on papers and they are kept in a confidential storage. No matters how is process, everything needs to be strictly confidential. They have it sort it by index order units. In the majority medical office setting they file by numeric storage systems,and others are by alphabetic storage systems. This is the information that they work with, when patients are schedule, and files records are set in a place early in the morning to have it ready when patient arrives to the office.

Electronic records have the same information as mention before; however, it is more beneficial because it can be electronically transfer to a doctor’s office.  It is more efficient storage and retrieval. It can be stored with a backup in case of a disaster so that data can be accurately safe and intact. It is paperless and has other beneficial sources.