Health Records Management Practices : A Comparative View of Public and Private Hospitals

Effective Health Record management is vital to ensuring Quality Health Care Service provision. Hospitals across the world manage the same types of records although the practices of managing the records are carried out in very different ways. This is due to lack of well standardized procedures by the authorities responsible. Standardization of Record management practices ensures easy policy formulation, proper and timely reporting, easy government and management budgeting, creation of useful databases and easy utilization and outbreak response. This book focuses on the types and sources of health records, automation of health records, availability of record management policies in hospitals and their contents, and challenges in health records management; in private and public hospitals. the book is helpful to governments, hospitals management teams, record managers and stakeholders, lecturers and students in Universities and Colleges.