Healthcare, in general, is in a particularly active time, involving mergers and acquisitions. Merging healthcare providers need to plan and manage systems consolidations that will provide for optimized future use and proper continuing documentation.
Conversion, or migration, also involves items that don’t easily transfer, creating a liability in terms of patient outcomes, business functionality and reputation. While this involved process can be costly for in-house staff, dedicated manual data abstraction can provide an efficient alternative.
The Critical Human Element
Human intervention is a requisite element of successful data conversion. A medical record abstraction service will consult with clients to understand system objectives, including patient-related information and constructs for effective business functions, like payer and federal reporting.
The abstraction process proceeds with the accurate transfer of historical data from any source, including legacy EHR, scanned paper or point-to-point data acquisition, while applying client-specific data governance rules and running audits for quality.
Advantages of Data Abstraction Services
A medical record abstraction service unburdens physicians and clinicians of time and resource-consuming data entry processes, allowing them to focus on excellent patient care. These services also create a platform for accessing quality-measure analytics and patient-specific metrics with which clinicians can meet billing and reporting requirements and present evidence of quality service.
Benefits of abstraction services include:
- Accuracy
- Cost Savings
- Scalable Services per Clinician Requirements
- Efficiency
- Dedicated Project Management
Process Flexibility
Data migration and abstraction are nuanced. Every case is different. Because a medical record abstraction service is a human solution, it has the flexibility to assist clients with even worst-case migration scenarios. Even a corresponding look-up code mismatch between systems can prevent the successful conversion of key data. Manual abstraction by trained clinical abstractors can spot the mismatches and keep migration on track.
EHR abstraction specialists provide an essential service that maintains accuracy and migration standardization, relieving clinicians and staff of time-consuming processes and allowing them to focus on patient care.
