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Medical Information Management Office

Masahiro Tsuboi, Tokiko Inagaki

Introduction

The role of the Medical Information Management Office is the management of medical records of hospitals by professional medical information management officers.

Our team and what we do

The following members were listed as the committee of medical information management.

Position,Name,Status
Position,Name,Status(Full Size)

Routine activities

1.Auditing Discharge Summary (quantitative inspection)

Data on discharge summaries should be entered and approved by the attending physician (Table 1). Submitting rate of discharge summary within two weeks after patient's discharge should be over 90%. We inspected and checked the summaries and, where required, gave some advice for correct input.

Table 1. Submitting rate of discharge summary

Table 1. Submitting rate of discharge summary
Table 1. Submitting rate of discharge summary(Full Size)

2.Maintenance of disease codes based on ICD-10

3.Analysis of medical contents on DPC (Diagnostic Procedure Combination) and recommendation for efficiency

Future prospects

Our goal is to make recommendations and proposals of good and effective medical care based on DPC data. Each clinical department has held an annual "DPC round" to make quality control and quality assurance for each medical practice.