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1. How Health Information Management Impacts the Quality of Patient Care Health Information Management "In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together." – Vinod Khosla What medicines did to humankind in the last 100 years is getting redefined with Health information management​. It is not the only paper to digital of hospital administration but also of patient care. nowadays for a better tomorrow. It is the fast field of digital development Like many think and believe that health information management will benefit only the administration part of the health care. But many studies and researches have proved otherwise. There are many benefits of HIM of which patient care is of utmost importance. The quality of patient care is reaching new horizons with the implementation of HIM. 11 ways HIM impact the quality of patient care: 1. Safety of patients: As per the latest IOM or Institute of medicine, there was no impact on the health conditions of inpatients in hospitals in the last few years. It is even though utmost care and concern as given to the patients with the best of treatments. implementation of HIM in the same hospitals, there was substantial impact and improvement in the in​ patients health conditions. But with the 2. Prevention rather than cure: As per the adage prevention is better than cure, HIM prevents a lot of reportable events by identifying them even before they become issues. They also help in acting on those events that were thought to be unavoidable. 3. Quality & Cost Effective treatment: Collaboration among all healthcare professionals and stakeholders enables the patients to get high and active quality treatment at competent costs. 4. Human errors eliminated: To err is human. But mistakes in patient care could lead to disastrous results. The errors could happen in giving drugs, medical mistakes, health-care acquired conditions,

2. information system constraints, and fragmented delivery systems. All this could be entirely and effectively eliminated by implementing HIM. 5. Enables expert consultations with HIM professionals: With the data from EHR in the HIM important life-saving decision calls for meeting with HIM professionals can be done. It not only saves lives but also enables effective and highly qualified patient care. 6. Easy to update treatments as per new trends and developments: With HIM implemented the latest trends in the treatment options, tests and operations can be accessed instantly. His provides the right insights for better treatment for the patients. 7. Enables patients' to access their records: Since all the treatments re digitally recorded the patients can access their ​health records​ online anytime anywhere. 8. Insurance compliance for safety and fast reimbursement: HIM ensures all insurance compliances as per the rules and regulations. It includes data safety measures including data encryption, disclosure policies, and breach notification plans. It benefits both the patients and insurance companies with reimbursement with correct medical data. 9. Data mining for better patient care​: With the increase of diseases, every day the patient's health condition could e compared with previous records with data mining. It could be life-saving in some cases and for others to improve and provide quality treatment for the patient. 10. Analyzing for accuracy: With all the medical records in safe data, it is easy to examine the efficiency of the treatments and provide the highest level of patient care. 11.Providing healthcare literacy: Patients are educated to navigate through the most common health and administrative problems. It includes discharge instructions, insurance bills, the future continuance of treatments at home and hospitals, drug dosages and timings and many more.

3. HIM is set to revolutionize the healthcare sector with a positive impact on the quality of patient health care.