Clinical coding is the process of transforming the information about diseases or procedures recorded in the health records into numeric or alphanumeric codes, in order to categorise health record information.<\/p>\n
It allows for reliable collation, aggregation and comparison of healthcare data on local and national platforms. As well as being useful for auditing purposes, it is used for tracking patients outcomes and measuring treatment effectiveness.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And increasingly clinical coders are using our Dorset Care Record to help them, particularly across Dorset\u2019s acute hospitals.<\/p>\n Chris Webb, who has been working this year as a clinical coder at Dorset County Hospital, said he has found the health and care record useful because of its plethora of information.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a clinical coder, I used the Dorset Care Record as the best and most complete record of patients\u2019 co-morbidities, which is key to producing accurate and complete patient coding.<\/p>\n \u201cPrior to having access to the DCR, as coders we would get our information from the hard copy patient notes, patient letters on the Patient Admin System (PAS) or historical Electronic Discharge Summaries.<\/p>\n \u201cThe DCR is seen as the easiest and most complete source to get the information required,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Dorset County Hospital started giving its clinical coding team access to the DCR in the summer and within a couple of months two of the coders were in their top 10 of users. Over the past few months the whole team has been given access and they\u2019ve also been set up on the benefits register.<\/p>\n Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clinical coding is the process of transforming the information about diseases or procedures recorded in the health records into numeric or alphanumeric codes, in order to categorise health record information. It allows for reliable collation, aggregation and comparison of healthcare data on local and national platforms. As well as being useful for auditing purposes, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1866,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[182,181,112],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/files\/2021\/12\/Clinical-coder-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-care-record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}