Author Question: Identify and define the four areas of data quality management as described by the American Health ... (Read 59 times)

ashley · **on:** Jul 12, 2018

Identify and define the four areas of data quality management as described by the American Health Information Management Association.

Question 2

Health care facilities maintain either a manual or automated MPI. Briefly describe the purpose of an MPI and state the retention period for the MPI.

Sophiapenny · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 12, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The four areas include data application (purpose for which the data are collected), data collection (processes by which data elements are accumulated), data warehousing (processes and systems used to archive data and data journals), and data analysis (process of translating data into information utilized for an application).

Answer to Question 2

An MPI links a patient's medical record number with common identification data elements (for example, patient's complete name, date of birth, gender, mother's maiden name, and Social Security number). The MPI is the key to locating paper-based records in the HIM department file system. The MPI should be maintained permanently.