I am having a great experience at Baptist Lexington. I cannot say enough good things about my supervisor, Linda. She genuinely cares about making sure I get the most out of my time at Baptist, by scheduling time for me to visit with other departments, letting me know when she has ideas of things I can incorporate into my projects and allowing me to go with her to every meeting that she can.
This past week I was able to visit with Revenue Integrity on Alexandria Drive. When I returned to the HIM department the next day, Christina was so excited to see me and told me that she had some awesome news for me. She told me that Dr. Bailey and Leslie Combs at revenue had called the HIM department and said that I was the most impressive student …show more content…
Last Friday I spent the day with Todd Williams. It was interesting seeing what goes into implementing epic behind the scenes versus in the hospital setting. I also spent time with clinical informatics last week. I was able to see how much time and detail goes into making EHR templates clinician-friendly. Clinical Informatics had to sit with physicians individually and determine how they wanted their specific electronic charts to function, for example whether they wanted free text, or drop down boxes to identify a patients …show more content…
I have also completed delinquent medical record reports for the last 12 months, that are sent the Joint Commission. One of the coolest things I have done so far, is go to Wilmore, KY with Linda to Kentucky Underground. Kentucky Underground is literally a cave, where the Highbridge Springs bottled water is manufactured and it also serves as a huge record storage warehouse. Baptist recently realized that there were records that were stored there that needed to be either kept or destroyed based on retention laws but the records were not sorted between adult and pediatrics. Adult records only have to be kept for 10 years but pediatric records must be kept until the child is 23 years old. Our job was to go to KY underground where the records were stored to assess the scope of job and report it back to corporate so they can determine they most cost effective way to go about getting the records sorted and destroyed if