Managing Medical Records in Specialist Medical Centres

  • Authors

    • Mastura Md Zali
    • Saiful Farik Mat Yatin
    • Mohd Razilan Abdul Kadir
    • Siti Noraini Mohd Tobi
    • Nurul Hanis Kamarudin
    • Nik Nurul Emyliana Nik Ramlee
    2018-07-04
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.7.16358
  • Medical Records, Records Management, Specialist Centre, Records Management Department, Medical Records Officer

  • Abstract

    A collection of facts about a patient’s life and health history of past and present illnesses and treatments is known as medical records. The health professionals were contributing to record the patient’s care. The responsibility in managing daily records that produced by each of department is by the Medical Records Department. It is a department under clinical support services with activities including managing of patient records, patient information production, management of medical reports, and hospital statistics. This article aims to discuss the challenge associated with managing medical records in the organization and how to handle and manage it with the records management as a tool to mitigate risk. Therefore, it is likely to prompt further research by addressing existing gaps towards improving service delivery that can contribute to the body of knowledge in the field of records management and archives generally.

     

     

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    Md Zali, M., Farik Mat Yatin, S., Razilan Abdul Kadir, M., Noraini Mohd Tobi, S., Hanis Kamarudin, N., & Nurul Emyliana Nik Ramlee, N. (2018). Managing Medical Records in Specialist Medical Centres. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(3.7), 232-235. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.7.16358

    Received date: 2018-07-27

    Accepted date: 2018-07-27

    Published date: 2018-07-04