Health Care System Structure

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System Structures Overview Denise Schuler HCS 533 January 12, 2015 Dr. Kevin Lett System Structures Overview Health statistics and data are important for any organization because it allows the organization to know, at a glance, an array of vital information necessary to operations and patient safety. In the health care industry today, reportable data interconnects and reports on both the clinical side of an organization and the revenue side, it is because of this that having a system structure in place is paramount for data collections. This overview will focus on disease classification structures that are necessary for reimbursement and epidemiological data collections by providing a description of the information system structure, the reason for the focus on this system structure, how this structure applies to utilization in a hospital setting and the advantages and disadvantages of the system structure. Description of the Selected System The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes; physicians and other health care providers, researchers and payers use this tool in order to classify diseases (World Health Organization, 2015) for statistical data and for reimbursement. This system ranges from ICD 6 to ICD 11(Loscalzo et al, 2007) and…show more content…
Selecting the appropriate system structure for disease classification related to reimbursement and epidemiological data is vital to all health care settings from hospital to physician and all other clinicians to ensure proper reimbursement and data storage. With value based purchasing of quality health care service providers need to know the health of the population they serve and a disease classification system is what it
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