An automated system that captures and stores information to verify the medical need to perform a medical procedure

摘要

An automated routine verifies the medical necessity of a procedure. When a procedure is scheduled, the routine searches for, captures and archives patient and clinical information in an audit file, to evidence medical necessity of the procedure. If the audit file lacks one or more pieces of information, medical personnel will be visually alerted to the shortcoming and what is lacking. The user may then activate one or more objects of a user interface, to search resources that contain the required information, so that the audit file may be updated, as necessary, so as to comply with requirements of the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services.