Medical Data Impact to Financial Health, Disability and Job Protection – #HITsm Chat Topic

The objective of this chat is for #HITsm community to share their insight, ideas and opinions about the identification, collection, and sharing of a patient’s medical and functional status with proper release of information to the payer directly. Quite simply, how can technology, process, policy and people speed up the process so patients and payers have the medical records needed to make accurate, timely and fair benefit decisions? Reference Materials: Accommodation best practices: Consistency is key. Communication and teamwork: Keys to successful return to work. A new approach to healthcare is on the horizon. Sedgwick: Count us in brochure Join us as we dive into this topic during this week’s #HITsm chat using the following questions. Topics for This Week’s #HITsm Chat: T1: What issues, obstacles and/or missing capabilities prevent or hinder an individual’s ability to collect their medical records? #HITsm T2: How are patients impacted when benefit approval requires medical documentation and medical records are not available? #HITsm T3: How can patients, support networks, employers, government or others support the capture, storage & retrieval of medical records? #HITsm T4: What technologies and/or new approaches can assist w/ capture, storage & retrieval of medical record data? #HITsm T5: What reasonable policy and/or regulatory changes could be implemented to accelerate & expedite benefit processing on behalf of consumers? #HITsm Bonus: What stake...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT Healthcare Social Media Patients #HITsm Topics HIM Kimberly George Medical Data medical records Medical Records Requests Release of Information Source Type: blogs