Health Records Management II

At the end of the course, the students should be able to: 1. discuss health records management, forms of Health Records, forms management; 2. explain Patient’s records as a legal document; 3. define the principles of file organisation; 4. identify methods of file organisation and hierarchies of information structure; and 5. debate budgeting for health records management.

Definition of health records management, forms of Health Records, forms management, files management, directives management, reports management, micrographics management and reprographics management, personnel management in health records office and medical archives, costing in health records management, purpose and effects of health insurance scheme on health records practice. Patient’s records as a legal document such as property rights and ownership, custodian of the record, authorisations, signatories, and many others filing system, file design and organisation, file content (data element) and file review procedures, role of storage, media in file organisation. Principles of file organisation, methods of file organisation and hierarchies of information structure such as logical and physical, structural principles and elements, budgeting for health records management.