Because practice management systems and electronic health records originally were designed to support accurate billing for subsequent reimbursement, fundamental changes to practice patterns are slow to enter clinical practices.
The industry is trained to identify diagnoses and procedures using accurate coding.
This creates the trail of description of a person’s health history, along with related diagnostic results from labs and imaging.
Add the pharmaceutical and therapeutic treatment data, and you have a complete picture of the patient.
Two types of data that are vital to understanding the