The rule states that failure to take notice of one cost, such as prevention (less costly), can result in eventual greater costs to correct or to remedy the problem.
Of course in healthcare these figures could be 1-10-100-1000 and so on as medical costs can quickly spiral as more treatment is needed. However as mentioned earlier, many healthcare organizations have been adopting electronic medical record systems and are seeing great results from improving workflow processes which can help reduce the incidence of errors.
Here at Extract Systems many of our customers have been using our intelligent data extraction software LabDE to measure and reduce data entry errors and provide quality assurance. Our customers have found that LabDE inherently switches the data entry person, or Medical Technologist, into a QA person. Instead of inputting data (which can introduce errors), they are verifying the data the system has captured in the required fields.
Customers typically send a random percentage of documents to a supervisor or another QA person. They can then review and correct errors, and also track accuracy rates. It really depends on your preference. Either way, it's an ounce of prevention -- or reducing medical errors through better documentation. We've got you covered.
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