What is the purpose of a Medical Chart Audit Committee?
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When I worked in a medical clinic in the medical records department this is what I could gather about an audit....They looked to see if dictation and lab work were in the appropriate places, if names of patient matched with the labs and paperwork inside. Filing of charts in correct place. Things along that nature.  Usually had a nurse or doctor on committee. It would just be a way to make sure charts and information were correct.
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To make sure someone can do something.  I mean really do it not just pass a paper and pencil test on the subject but actually perform it.  Like you want to make sure a doctor can actually DO that surgery, not just answer questions correctly on a test about how to do the surgery.  When it is something that must be performed you need proficiency testing.
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it's important to have some idea of what the hell a doctor might have written on the chart in order to code it...\n\nand coding correctly is crucial to making sure the patient gets the benefits he's entitled to.
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You need a professional medical evaluation!
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Don't know who to contact, but it was probably easier to make a single rule than to try to list all those who do and don't have to take it. That would get pretty tedious. So as a general precaution, they make everyone take it. \nPlus, you've already taken a First-Aid course haven't you? if you're and EMT. Maybe that could count toward it. But this might be a specialized First-Aid course specifically designed to work with mental patients. If so, it wouldn't hurt to take it anyway.
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it is an audit with the purpose of discovering what (normally) went wrong. Usually to explain and quantify the extent of malfeasance, and normally undertaken where there is a high suspicion or basic proof of wrongdoing
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There are many programs, if you are a doctor or someone who is authorized to write.  There is an EMR (electronic medical records) program called Chartmaker that does scripts.  There is also a program call IScribe.
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This question is sort of self-answering, isn't it? Anyway, it's important to have any applicable notes related to illnesses so that trends can be analyzed and doctors can keep up with the latest antidotes or surgical procedures.
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In our hosital, the CNAs do vitals q4h including pulse oximetry checks.  They will notify the nurse and the Resp care personnel if there is a problem with abnormal respers and/or low oxygen levels.  They help in CPR doing compressions AND bagging the patient, providing different equipment as it is asked for, taking notes on what is done, meds used and the time the meds or procedures are done.  Some of our CNAs are trained in reading cardiac monitors and I have trained a couple to do EKGs.  They know about CO2 narcosis so that they are aware of symptoms inorder to notify us if the symptoms exist in a patient.  They help in I & Os so as to notify the nurse if there is abnormal I & O ratio....I am not sure what you are looking for in your report, but basically, the CNA is our support system on several levels in the care of all patients and they have to know a problem when they see it.  Positioning patients is important for better breathing and the avoidance of bed sores....so many things are involved!  Our CNAs (nurse techs) are extememly important members of the patient care team.
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Because of patient confidentiality...Drug screens along with HIV test or any other test done by employees should be held in the strictist confidence by their employees.
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There should be a night auditor balancing the books each night. If the issue is not accounting it may be the clerks. I worked as a manager on duty for a sleazy motel chain and found several employees who would trade hotel rooms for drugs or pocket money from cash sales. It may be as simple as monitoring the staff or instituting a more stringent accounting technique.
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Contact the Board of Medical Quality Assurance in  your state or the medical society in your county.   The specific answer varies from one jurisdiction to another.
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Responsibility, Authority, Support, Inform...it's part of a quality management process. The chart is easy. Draw four boxes with each title at the top. Then list the people (or departments) in each box responsible for each function
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Short answer:\nBasically, board members are stand in "owners", who would want to know how the company is doing.  Statements are hopefully the objective assessment of this.\n\nLonger:\nThey should be using the statements as a measurement of the CEO's performance, as well as an indication of the firms internal condition so that they may assist in strategy formation. Mostly, it is a performance report of the CEO.  Boards for firms like Rite Aid failed to audit the reports to see if the CEO artificially influenced the reports, or Enron, where the board was just plain disinterested in things like statements, which contained footnotes that would have signalled the presence of the entities that Fastow set up to contain Enron's debt. Actually they were very interested, if you look at their (the board members') pre-meltdown stock sales.
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Using IT usually entials using general audit software or computer assisted auditing techniques.\n\nIT can help in financial audit process by letting you perform testing routines such as recalculating and verifying balances, identifying control issues, testing for compliance with standards, aging and analysing accounts receivables/payables or any other time sensitive transactions, testing for duplicate payments, and gaps in invoice numbers, among others. \n\nThese kinds of software allows auditors to quantify the financial impact of errors, or internal control issues. Line management will respond more positively to problems and opportunities that are quantified.
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At Sharps Hospital in San Diego, California, they include these tests for a health appraisal:\n\n      Health-risk appraisal with detailed recommendation\n      Resting blood pressure\n      Resting heart rate\n      Height and weight\n      Body fat measurement\n      Hip/waist measurement\n      Lung function test\n      Electrocardiogram (ECG)\n      Urinalysis\n      Exercise prescription\n      Blood chemistry panel with cardiac-risk profile and glucose    \n                test\n     Stool test for occult blood\n     Cardiovascular fitness evaluation (3-minute step test)\n     Pap test and mammogram (women only)\n     Bone density (women only)\n     Physical examination and consultation with a physician\n\nTheir goal is to teach you how to maintain and enhance your physical health while managing or correcting at-risk conditions before they lead to serious illness.
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There is an organization called the Medical Information Bureau (MIB) that acts as a data repository. Essentially, every time you have used or even applied for your health insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, etc that data is stored there. When you apply for a life insurance policy, for example, one of the documents you are signing is a consent form allowing the insurance company to request records from the MIB as well as directly from your doctors (Attending Physician's Statement or APS).\n\nThe insurance company looks at this information for two reasons; first, and most obviously, they are checking your medical history so as to make an informed decision on how much of a risk you are. Secondly, they use this information to check the veracity of the answers you provide on the application. I have seen it happen where something comes up in the medical history that really wouldn't have resulted in a declination, but since the applicant failed to voluntarily disclose the information, the insurance company declined the coverage. From their viewpoint, if the applicant lied on something small, they are likely covering up larger issues.