{"id":112553,"date":"2020-08-31T20:42:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T00:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553//?p=112553"},"modified":"2021-06-14T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:45:56","slug":"ucf-professor-develops-tech-to-improve-patient-care-billing-reimbursement-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553//ucf-professor-develops-tech-to-improve-patient-care-billing-reimbursement-rates/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553//","title":{"rendered":"Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Professor Develops Tech to Improve Patient Care, Billing Reimbursement Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Complete electronic medical records are vital to patients who need coordinated care from multiple providers. Such records are also needed for doctors who seek insurance reimbursements for their services./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/n

But often those electronic records are incomplete, which isn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u2019t good for patients and means doctors often have to file multiple times with insurance companies to get paid. That/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u2019s lost time and revenue./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/n

A professor at the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ has developed a computer model that allows healthcare facilities to determine how complete their patients/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u2019 electronic records are in real time. Once doctors or their front office staff can spot the issues, they can address them. That would translate into more complete information so doctors can make better decisions about patient care. Also, this technology should translate into better reimbursement rates./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u201cOur method doesn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u2019t spot what is missing in each individual electronic record,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u201d says health management and informatics Associate Professor Varadraj Gurupur, who was assisted in this pursuit by Ayan Nasir, a doctoral student with the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ School of Medicine. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u201cBut it gives each record a rating of how complete it is based on what/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u2019s missing. For example, if a work phone number is missing, that/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u2019s one score. But if blood test records are missing, that/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u2019s a higher score because that data is more important in the treatment of the patient. I think this is a valuable tool for patient care, but also for rural clinics that really need to be sure to get reimbursed for their services./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/112553/n