Research Catalog

Title

Health information management : principles and organization for health record services / Margaret A. Skurka.

Author

Skurka, Margaret Flettre.

Publication

Chicago : AHA Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

ix, 254 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The definitive reference source on the management of health records, this book provides the basic guidelines on content and structure, analysis, assessment, and improvement of information critical to every health care organization. The author has updated her well-received book beyond hospitals, incorporating the latest and most successful practices - most notably, the computerization of record operations and systems and of the record itself.

Subjects

• Information storage and retrieval systems > Hospitals
• Medical records > Management
• Hospital Information Systems
• Medical Records Department, Hospital > organization & administration
• Medical Records

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Health information management in hospitals / Margaret Flettre Skurka.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Health Information Management and the Health Care Institution -- Ch. 2. Content and Structure of the Health Record -- Ch. 3. Information-Capture Design and Principles -- Ch. 4. Health Record Analysis -- Ch. 5. Unit Record, Numbering, and Filing Systems -- Ch. 6. Databases, Indexes, and Registers -- Ch. 7. Clinical Classification Systems -- Ch. 8. Quality Management and Performance Improvement -- Ch. 9. Health Care Statistics and Database Management -- Ch. 10. Preservation of Health Records -- Ch. 11. Location, Space, and Equipment Requirements -- App. A. Resolutions from the American Health Information Management Association 1996 House of Delegates -- App. B. Journal of AHIMA Practice Briefs: Practice Guidelines for Managing Health Information.

ISBN

1556482124

LCCN

97032070

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries