Introduction

Two previous articles have developed the aspects of patient care data management via the electronic oral health record (EOHR) and the privacy/confidentiality issues attending both patient care and the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA).^1,2  This article will focus on the administrative transactions that attend patient care and support the dental practice in the provision of quality oral health care. As was noted by Heid et al.¹, data captured to document patient care can also be used to conduct the administrative and resource management transactions that attend management of the dental practice.  HIPAA administrative transactions consist of those communications outside the practice that either generate income or other reportable data needed for healthcare administration.  This article will focus on those data needed for the dentist to comply with the HIPAA transactions requirement, but which will need to be consistent with the broader role the dentist now plays, or will play in the future, in the full healthcare system.

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Citation Number: Vol. 4, No. 4, Page 109