Use of electronic medical records for improving accurate coding of dermatology procedures

Coding of dermatology surgery procedures allows the trust to be paid for these services. This is dependent on accurate documentation from the operating doctor. Historically, this relied on a laborious process of analysing paper notes that were often incomplete, hard to decipher or sometimes missing altogether. This led to low reimbursement for activities carried out by our department and we sought to utilise the new electronic medical records (EMR), Cerner, system to be able …