Developing Links Between Private Provider Billing Systems and Immunization Registries

Autor: Michael L. Popovich, Raymond Root
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 13:82-85
ISSN: 0749-3797
DOI: 10.1016/s0749-3797(18)30120-x
Popis: Ensuring the participation of private providers in central immunization registries is essential. An understanding of the business operations of the provider helps create “win-win” scenarios that facilitate physician participation and ensure the collection of accurate and timely data. The private provider’s business considerations include the impact on the practice’s time, money, and staff. An approach that optimizes the collection of immunization data within existing business operations is required. The Arizona State Immunization Information System (ASUS) has developed links to a central immunization registry from private providers’ existing automated systems. In Arizona, 90% of the physicians have computer systems; these are used for billing, insurance reporting, and automated medical records. The ASUS project has developed a personal computer (PC) software pack age that allows providers to store patient demographic information and immunization records. This package includes patient immunization reporting capabilities, a reminder/recall component, vaccine tracking, and assessment, all of which assist the provider in improving immunization rates. This package can be linked to a billing claims systems in order to eliminate the need for double entry of data. Within the billing system, daily postings of immunization encounters through Current Procedures Terminology (CPT) codes are used to automatically capture immunization records. This creates an automated immunization medical record from encounter data.
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