INTEGRATING HEALTH CARE SECURITY AND MEDICAL CODING TO ENHANCE HOSPITAL SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY

Abstract

Introduction: Making sure hospitals are safe and work well is important in healthcare. This requires solid security measures and proper medical coding techniques. Health care security protects patients, workers, and vital information from physical dangers and cyber threats. Medical coding helps ensure that patient records are written correctly, bills are accurate, and hospital operations run smoothly. Putting these two areas together creates a full system that helps hospitals be safer and makes their operations better.

 The goal of this work is to explore how mixing healthcare security with medical coding can make hospitals safer and run more smoothly. It also wants to discover the challenges, effective approaches, and new tools that make this process easier.

We looked through a lot of existing research by checking databases such as PubMed, Scopus, and ScienceDirect, focusing on studies that were published between 2022 and 2024. A theme-based method was used to discover shared patterns in the challenges, benefits, and fresh ideas that come with merging healthcare security with medical coding.

Results show that when hospitals use healthcare security along with medical coding, they become safer places. This is because it helps reduce the number of medical errors, keeps patient information secret, and ensures the hospital follows all the rules and laws it needs to. It also helps things work better by properly giving out resources, reducing slow paperwork, and making sure patient care is always consistent and effective. There are still major issues such as challenges in linking different systems together, the need to teach people how to use them, and concerns about how patient information is treated in a fair and responsible way.

Conclusion: Using healthcare security along with medical coding helps make hospitals safer and better at providing care. Even though there are difficulties, using modern tools, teaming up with people from different jobs, and making strong rules can lead to long-lasting improvements.