Introduction
Physicians, health care centers; other health providers conduct their businesses of medicine provisions in a more efficient, and effective manner through engaging and managing their businesses and health care data documents to inform them of everything they do. When health care businesses engage their business using the information, technology they make their business operation more efficient and effective. Through use of health care It solutions, the health care providers make their health provisions quality. The results of using IT solutions in health care include improvement access to patient health care data. The data concerning patients such as their personal history can easily be located. The patients’ files concerning their past visits to the hospital can easily are located when the patient visits the hospital next. The patients’ history concerning their health care can be located easily with IT. The patients’ records of their progresses every time they visit the hospital are kept in easily retrieval manner.
The other benefits of the IT in health care include greater operational efficiencies. This is achieved through easy disease diagnosis and provisions of medicine. The patients’ are easily diagnosed and the medicine administered easily. Research concerning the diseases and their treatment can easily be conducted through intense research in the health medicine. The administration of patients’ charges and recording of the transactions that take place in health care centers is made easy. The records concerning the patient’s payment for the health care services are easily kept. They can be retrieved easily and this will minimize fraud cases in the health care centers. The health care IT solutions also reduced the administrative costs and make health care outcomes to be better. The use of IT in health care makes health care providers to provide their health services and other services smooth (Varshney,139). They keep the administration of the health care in better and improved services.
The administration of the health care is made easy as the heath care administrators and their employees can easily communicate and make the communication easy. In this way the administration charges in the health care becomes cheap. The health care provision and administration costs are reduced. When health care IT solutions are used in the administration of charges in the health care facilities patient’s payment records are easily kept. This reduces the malicious frauds in the health care centers. The records of medicine and the patients’ payment for the services are recorded and kept in a safe manner. The staff of the health care can take care of the health care facilities and medicine. They will not misuse them, as they know that records and data can easily be retrieved. Trough this way therefore the health care facilities conduct their businesses in a smooth and efficient manner. Their ways of conducting their businesses becomes well known and the transactions are easily retrieval ( Scheese,56).
The use of IT technology in the health care facilities leads to meaningful use of advisory services, which make the health care consulting meaningful. The project implementation and support becomes easy. This is due to the application of ERP applications. The IT use also leads to revenue cycle management. There will be no misappropriation of revenue and the revenue will easily be remitted into the government with no major problems. The well kept health payment transaction records also help the government to know the rate and the amount of taxes that they will administer in the health care facility.
The Inter-Mountain health care in Dallas use the health care IT solutions. Through use of such solutions, the health care has managed patient’s transaction data through recording the records electronically. The health care facility keeps the medical records such as the medical procedures and prescriptions in a very simple and organized manner. The facility also predicts the patterns and behavior, which leverages historical and current data with a variety of sources. The facility has also automated entity identification for businesses, assets or people and the modeling behavior (Boland, 95). The use of IT solution also helps in fraud prevention. Through clear recording of patients’ transactions and payment, the health facility prevents fraud as the health facility uses IT to record all the transaction processes, which makes it difficult for fraud to occur in the health centre.
The Inter-Mountain health care facility use different modes of payments. They pay their workers using different modes. The patient’s are expected to pay cash as they receive their services. The payment of the method depends on the services, which the patient receives from the health care. Other patients who have the have the health insurance cards pay for their services by use of such cards. However, when patients pay for their services using the insurance cards they are required to inform the health care during the consultation time to reduce the inconvenience with the hospital payment methods (Kern, 16). The cash payments are recorded with computer by application of the IT technology.
The transaction processes are recorded and payment receipts are issued to the patients as a proof of payment. The duplicate of the of the patient’s receipt remain with the hospital. In case there will be cases of frauds, it will be easy for the health care facility to trace the causes and the origins of such frauds. The health facility pays for through two modes of payments. The permanent workers of the health facility are paid through their respective banks. These workers are required to just subscribe to hospital payment modes and issue their bankcards for confirmation. The other casual workers are paid cash by the health facility. They are expected to sign for their payments as they receive their payments. All these information are kept data manipulations in the computer. The software keeps this information for future reference and easy retrievals (Boland,105). The payments by the health care to the suppliers are also kept in the computer. Such transactions are easy for retrieval. It also allows for easy, accountable and transparent manner auditing of such transactions.
The health care carries out the ordering Medical PERM where the medical contractor makes contracts with the health care facility administrator. The transactions between the company and the health care provider sign agreements for their transactions. The transaction is kept in the computer software for easy retrieval and audit services. The transactions for the payment to the contractors are always done through cheque payments. If the contractor is not satisfied with the payment of the service, it will have to make some claims about the transaction. A comprehensive audit is done to ascertain whether the there were errors in the transactions. The information is easily retrieved from the computer. This makes the audit very easy. Thus, the use of health care IT solution makes health care transactions easy and accurate.
Job positions and requirements in Inter-Mountain Health care
Data integrity Specialist-monitoring
The minimum requirements for the job include; the applicant should have diploma or equivalent in Health Information Management, Information systems or Medical Technology from a recognized institution. The applicant should have two years minimum experience in Health care dealing health records and data entry management. The applicant also should be able to communicate efficiently and efficiently.
Orthodontic Insurance specialist
The applicant should have a degree in Business Management from a recognized institution. The applicant should also have three years experience working in Health care facility in insurance billing. The applicant should be able to communicate and interact with health care customers effectively. Applicant is also required to have proficient knowledge in data entry.
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