Introduction Administrative hospital databases represent an important tool for hospital
financing in many national health systems and are also an important data source for clinical …

Objective The rapid growth of the medical industry has resulted in a tremendous increase in
medical record data, which can be utilized for hospital management, aiding in diagnosis and …

Coding of medical data is a very important previous step for many activities in Health Care
management, since it is the basis for several activities ranging from hospital reimbursement …

Formal health classifications facilitate the collection of significant quantities of health data in
the form of clinical codes. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related …

Introduction: This is the second of two articles about best practice in the management of
coding services. The best practice project was part of a year-long project conducted in the …

Background Improving the equity of surgical services is an important objective of all clinical
programmes both local and overseas. Variations in access to care threaten to dismantle the …

OBJECTIVES: 1) To introduce to expert colleagues the concept of health sector information
quality advocates. 2) To obtain these colleagues opinions on worth of the advocate role and …

I am privileged to accept the appointment of editor of the Health Information Management
Journal (HIMJ) and to have the opportunity to promote health information management …