الأربعاء، 16 يناير 2013

Health) Australian medical coding system applied to all health facilities

In the framework of the efforts of the Ministry of health to improve its services and enhance the performance of health facilities, the Ministry is coding system AMC (ICD-10-AM) to all its hospitals and health facilities, based on an agreement signed between the Government of the Government of Saudi Arabia and Australia; the Ministry under this method convert alphabetical codes medical information and health, through the translation of medical information to the contents of the numerical and literal or numeric, and is read and analyze medical file to learn about the disease or diseases suffered by the patient and the medical business Was, with supplies and medicines that were introduced, and then the appropriate icons for each as contained in the medical file.

The Assistant Undersecretary for hospitals, Dr. Aqeel Al-Ghamdi to medical coding specialist can convert alaus f verbal for diseases and injuries and actions to numeric and alphanumeric symbols for classifying mortality (deaths), and information on death, and evaluation of medical procedures and health care outcomes, and used in some medical institutions in quality management, planning, administration, research, and education.

Dr. Aqeel that encoded medical role is the correct description for diagnosis and injury, converted into medical codes according to the patient's medical file, so start coding method with a full review of the patient's medical file, in addition to reviewing electronic medical records if available, and to extract relevant information.

Dr. Akil noted that this system is compatible with the vision, goals and strategy of the Ministry and the national project of integrated and comprehensive health care to help the Ministry to effectively improve strategic decision-making for planning, development and equitable distribution of resources, improve quality, and provide existing and fast services for beneficiaries of health services. As it comes to comply with the requirements of the World Health Organization WHO that facilitates the organization annually reports classified are encoded on communicable diseases, in particular, causes of mortality in those States on the basis of this classification.

To speed up the application of this management style of modern scientific method, encoding and specialist said at the Australian Organization Director Professor Hussin albeshi Health Ministry finally organized a second session for Ministry staff to the application of the international classification of diseases and processes (Australian modification) ICD-10-AM/ACHI ACS.

The Department also completed a series of specialized courses and workshops for the training of employees of the Ministry to implement the standards issued by the World Health Organization; in preparation to complete using the categorization in all parts of the medical records in hospitals and primary health-care centres in the Kingdom.

And between health coding team Bishi Ministry set up high-level numbers, through scholarship programmes in management of medical records and-currently-term talk (health information management), as well as international training programmes for diseases in the National Center for health information technology and research at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, explaining that the rehabilitation Ministry coding team by team supported international family (physician coders) of the World Health Organization.

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