Health Management Information Refer To The Transmission And Dissemination Of Healthcare Information Electronically Among Organizat

Health knowledge management simplies concerted, coordinated and deliberate efforts to manage the organizational knowledge by means of processes aiming at identifying and leveraging it to accentuate the organization's ability to compete.

(prHWY.com) January 15, 2013 - Florida, FL -- Florida, Jan 15, 2013 - Health knowledge management simplies concerted, coordinated and deliberate efforts to manage the organizational knowledge by means of processes aiming at identifying and leveraging it to accentuate the organization's ability to compete. Such an application in the healthcare domain has led to simplifying the process of updating the general knowledge database, creating a convenient discussion environment that replaces the traditional meeting.

Health management information refer to the transmission and dissemination of healthcare information electronically among organizations within a region or community. The technological development registered at the level of health informatics resulted in the capability to electronically transmit clinical data among disparate healthcare information systems without it having to suffer any alterations. The degree of exchangeability has expanded to a national level. This way clinicians can integrate their independent records, creating agile, patient-centered electronic health records that generate a new level of patient safety and information exchange.

Healthcare practices that are supported by electronic processes and communication. This type of system comprises a broad spectrum of services that slowly deletes the separation line between medicine and information technology. Among these services, one could include telemedicine, electronic medical record, consumer health informatics, virtual healthcare teams, health knowledge management.

In today's economic climate, the majority of hospitals and health systems are acutely interested in improving performance while embracing innovation to improve the functionality of their revenue cycle.

The largest amounts of revenue losses are a direct result of poor data capture at the front end of the revenue cycle and operational inefficiencies throughout. A smaller but still significant amount of losses come from unidentified or undetected government and commercial revenue sources that end up in the self-pay financial class and eventually go uncollected.

Aside from the collection challenges of self-pay, hospitals are plagued by the rising cost and financial repercussions of performing revenue cycle activities such as handling insurance payment rejections and denials, identifying lost charges, delayed payments, underpayments, and the hidden cost of rework.

Many hospitals have made great progress developing new processes and procedures to improve and positively impact revenue cycle performance. The challenge for these facilities is sustaining the financial benefits over the long haul. This is more difficult than meets the eye.

Providers are beginning to leverage new ideas and specific solutions to for improving and maintaining peak revenue cycle performance. In short, the leading practice trend is operating the revenue cycle based on advanced technology, which delivers operational business intelligence. Having access to information is only a part of the solution; the key is affecting positive change with the information.

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