| The quality of the practice of coding medical | | | | information supplied by your family or primary |
| records plays an essential role within any medical | | | | care doctor and whichever specialists have been |
| facility and could be of vital importance to you at | | | | involved. The finished result is a full and accurate |
| some time during your lifetime. This type of data | | | | record of any conditions which existed prior to |
| storage, be it in the local doctors office or the | | | | and including this accident, and any past and up to |
| large new medical center, keeps important | | | | the minute medications you may be taking. Of |
| information concerning treatment and costs in a | | | | course, all of this information is required to assess |
| complete and up to the minute format enabling | | | | your current condition and to ensure the most |
| you or authorized personnel to retrieve a detailed | | | | effective treatment is administered in order to |
| medical record quickly and efficiently when you | | | | treat you accordingly. |
| require treatment or to assess associated | | | | When you are back on your feet again, medical |
| treatment costs. | | | | record coding carries on working for you. Apart |
| Take, for example, a situation where you have | | | | from the fact that a precise record of your |
| been involved in a bad road accident and you | | | | health treatments is created and maintained, (for |
| require immediate medical attention. You are | | | | use the next time it is needed) the information |
| whisked away to the local medical center or | | | | stored in your records can be extremely helpful |
| hospital by ambulance and speedily admitted to | | | | when you are completing your tax returns. By |
| the emergency unit. Upon arrival coding medical of | | | | simply filling out a medical records request form |
| medical records begins, information about you is | | | | you are able to easily access records of your |
| immediately gathered together and you are | | | | specific charges and deductible costs you have |
| assigned a personal medical record number to | | | | incurred. |
| form a unique medical record or if you have | | | | Basically your coded medical record will offer you |
| previously been a patient at the hospital, your | | | | a clear and up-to-date picture of any amounts |
| existing medical record file or electronic medical | | | | which you or your insurance company have |
| record (EMR) is retrieved from the archives using | | | | incurred for the treatments, services or exams |
| your pre-existing unique medical record number. | | | | you received. They are coded during any hospital |
| The diagnosis and treatment of this latest incident | | | | visit and will be itemized within the coding of your |
| is completely detailed along side any earlier | | | | medical records. |
| treatments you may have received and with | | | | |