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Legal Health Record Policy and Procedure: 7

Legal Health Record policy and procedure

Tania Lopez Quintana

Herzing University

Legal Health Record policy and procedure

Hospital has a tradition of maintaining patient records that cannot be breached and will serve the hospital's business and legal needs. Routine disclosures will only contain the legal health record records needed to satisfy the request's purpose. Both medical/legal records will be held at East Jefferson General Hospital for the purpose of material release (Gesulga, J. M., Berjame, A 2016). To create rules for the material, management, and confidentiality of patient medical records that comply with Federal and State laws and regulations, as well as to specify the portion of an individual's healthcare history that constitutes the medical record, whether in paper or electronic format. Patient patient information, along with financial and other forms of data, is stored in various electronic records systems. This policy establishes criteria for the material components that make up a patient's full "Legal Medical Record."

Entries submitted to a patient record to supplement past entries with new details The addendum should be signed online and should include the current date, time, and justification for the extra material being applied to the health report. Patient identifiable identity is used for administrative, legal, and financial needs in the healthcare industry (Gesulga, J. M., Berjame, A 2016). Such information should be kept in the designated document collection, not the legal health record. Authorizations for the release of records, correspondences, birth and death certificates, coding abstracts or summaries, consistency and use monitoring, and administrative reports are examples of administrative data. an adjustment to the health records, such as a correction, extension, or deletion Many words are used, both of them affect the health record in some way. The word "amendment" is used to indicate the paperwork has been changed for the purposes of this legislation (Gesulga, J. M., Berjame, A 2016). Corrections, addendums, retractions, deletions, late entries, re-sequencing, and reassignment are some of the words used to describe how a patient record can be changed. Once the contractor has finished and signed the initial paperwork, an update is made. It should be remembered that unsigned documents will undergo modifications before being signed; thus, the changes made prior to the original signing must be recorded. Any changes should be made in a timely manner to have the latest date and time of the documentation (Downing, N. L., Bates,2015). a recording or report made or obtained for a commercial purpose and kept as documentation or because the material is valuable. Since this material is produced, received, and retained as documentation and information by an agency or individual in order to fulfill a legal duty or conduct business, it must always have a complete and correct record with no loopholes or additions.

PROCEDURES

Per patient would have a medical record created by the hospital. East Jefferson General Hospital has recognized that it has adopted a number of electronic health information programs and is working toward an automated electronic health record system. Each portion of the medical report will be produced in paper or electronic form as the hospital deems necessary from time to time throughout the patient's stay at the hospital, such as during downtime for paperwork. Unless the patient has been discharged and the entire legal health record is available in the secure, the legal health record is comprised of those elements identified as a component of the Designated Health Record Set to the extent that each of the elements may apply to a particular patient, each of which shall be in paper or electronic form as may be designated by the hospital from time to time, each of which shall be in paper or electronic form as may be designated by the hospital from time to time, until the patient has been discharged and the entire legal After that, the scanned paper elements will no longer be considered part of the legal medical record (Downing, N. L., Bates,2015). Before they are checked, preliminary notes and documentation are available for health treatment as part of the medical record. They aren't part of the official patient file. The final report will become part of the legal health record until it has been validated.

Procedure relevant for a healthcare institution.

Reports from hospital committees that have an effect on patient safety should not be kept on file. In such cases, physicians may record the consequences for patient care and should mention that a Committee recommendation was considered before deciding on the course of treatment (Layman, E. J. 2020). The patient care planner, in coordination with information management professionals, is the custodian of the legal health record. HIM practitioners are in charge of the organizational tasks of collecting, protecting, and archiving the legal health record, while information management staff is in charge of the electronic health record's administrative infrastructure. Dates, numerical statistics, pictures, and symbols are used to represent simple information about individuals, methods, measurements, and circumstances. Data is an unprocessed compilation or representation of raw facts, definitions, or instructions in a format appropriate for human or automated communication, analysis, or processing. The legal health record is described by AHIMA as "a business record created at or for a healthcare institution that is the record that will be published upon request." It has little impact on the organization's other information's discoverability. A healthcare organization's legal health record is a formally established legal business record. Which provides details of healthcare services given to a person by a healthcare provider in some area of healthcare delivery (Layman, E. J. 2020). Individually identified data in each form is obtained and explicitly used in recording healthcare or health status in the health record. The word also applies to patient care records maintained in any health-related environment by healthcare practitioners when delivering patient care, analyzing patient data, or recording reports, behavior, or orders.

Conclusion

Maintain a matrix or other document that records each part of the health record's source, venue, and medium. Identify all content from outside the institution that could be included in patient decision-making and treatment (outside documents and documentation, Patient Health Records, e-mail, etc.) that is not used as part of the legal record because it was not created or maintained in the normal course of operation. Develop, organize, and implement a strategy to handle all information content in the legal health record, regardless of location or type.

References;

Gesulga, J. M., Berjame, A., Moquiala, K. S., & Galido, A. (2017). Barriers to electronic health record system implementation and information systems resources: a structured review. Procedia Computer Science, 124, 544-551.

Downing, N. L., Bates, D. W., & Longhurst, C. A. (2018). Physician burnout in the electronic health record era: are we ignoring the real cause?.

Layman, E. J. (2020). Ethical issues and the electronic health record. The health care manager, 39(4), 150-161.