{"title":"One MRA's (medical record administrator) experience of converting alphabetical filing to terminal digit filing.","authors":"H Cooper","doi":"10.1177/183335839302300209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/183335839302300209","url":null,"abstract":"The Mater Public Hospitals Complex in Brisbane consists of three public hospitals Mater Children's, Mater Mother's and Mater Adult. The number of operational beds for the complex is in the vicinity of 595. The hospitals have been caring for the community in some form since 1906. Each hospital has its own primary file area but the management of the medical record service (MRS) is the responsibility of a single administration.","PeriodicalId":79562,"journal":{"name":"Australian medical record journal","volume":"23 2","pages":"57-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/183335839302300209","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial issues in health. Part 1. Medicare Mark III.","authors":"M Frainey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79562,"journal":{"name":"Australian medical record journal","volume":"23 2","pages":"50-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Principal diagnosis and episodes of care: turning the corner in patient information.","authors":"K Eagar, K Innes","doi":"10.1177/183335839302300206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/183335839302300206","url":null,"abstract":"The Eagar and\" Innes (1992) report to the Commonwealth addressed the identification and definition of source data items required for the Australian National Diagnosis Related Group (AN-DRG) classification. Contained in that three volume report were a series of recommendations which will have a significant impact on the medical record function and on the collection of patient information in Australia.","PeriodicalId":79562,"journal":{"name":"Australian medical record journal","volume":"23 2","pages":"47-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/183335839302300206","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21055142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HIMAA workforce survey 1991/1992.","authors":"J Mitchell, R Allen","doi":"10.1177/183335839302300208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/183335839302300208","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1991, and again in 1992, the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA), formerly Medical Record Association of Australia (MRAA), distributed a Workforce Survey to all members to collect information about the demographic, professional and employment characteristics of HIMAA members. There was a response rate 66.8% in 1991 and 40% in 1992, which rise to 80.9% in 1991 and 51.7% in 1992 for responses from full members. The collection will continue on an annual basis, providing a cumulative database and the opportunity for trend analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":79562,"journal":{"name":"Australian medical record journal","volume":"23 2","pages":"52-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/183335839302300208","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Severity of illness: how do we measure it and how does it relate to casemix?","authors":"R Okine","doi":"10.1177/183335839302300203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/183335839302300203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Severity of illness (S.O.I.) systems have traditionally been a useful clinical tool for measuring the physical effects of disease on the patient, planning treatment and predicting outcomes. However, they are now becoming a useful management tool to help explain and justify above average treatment costs within casemix classes and are of particular value for large tertiary referral hospitals which tend to treat more severely ill patients. There are three different categories of S.O.I. and several different systems and approaches for measuring it. All have their uses as analytical tools for categorising patients so as to maximise the homogeneity within casemix classes and make any Output or Casemix based Funding System based on such classes more equitable.</p>","PeriodicalId":79562,"journal":{"name":"Australian medical record journal","volume":"23 2","pages":"42-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/183335839302300203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pick a method, any method--quality activities and casemix funding.","authors":"C Balding","doi":"10.1177/183335839302300214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/183335839302300214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79562,"journal":{"name":"Australian medical record journal","volume":"23 2","pages":"70-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/183335839302300214","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quality management. The blind man and the elephant.","authors":"L L Wilson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79562,"journal":{"name":"Australian medical record journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"12-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The development of clinical information systems (casemix) in Hong Kong public hospitals.","authors":"K Chisolm, F Hong","doi":"10.1177/183335839302300104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/183335839302300104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79562,"journal":{"name":"Australian medical record journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"9-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/183335839302300104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"150,000 and counting: the implementation of a computer-assisted retrieval microfilm system.","authors":"J Holman","doi":"10.1177/183335839302300108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/183335839302300108","url":null,"abstract":"The computer index links parts of records filmed at different times or from different sources via a key field , in our case the Medical Record Number (MRN). The computer can also be used to hold messages which indicate what information is at each film location, what has been printed for whom , et cetera. For example, for confidentiality purposes the psychiatry section of a record can be filmed separately so that a person must make a conscious decision to look at this part of the record rather than come across it while looking at the main record.","PeriodicalId":79562,"journal":{"name":"Australian medical record journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"19-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/183335839302300108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethics, DRGs and medical record administrators.","authors":"A J Braunack-Mayer","doi":"10.1177/183335839302300103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/183335839302300103","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medical record administrators in the United States have documented a range of ethical problems which they have experienced as a result of the advent of DRGs. This paper considers the similarities and differences between the Australian and United States experience of DRGs, and the implications of these for Australian medical record administrators. Some ethical problems are described, and it is argued that these problems relate particularly to power imbalances between medical record administrators and other health professions.</p>","PeriodicalId":79562,"journal":{"name":"Australian medical record journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"5-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/183335839302300103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21002287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}