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The needs of third party payers are most comprehensible in the context of the various functional activities that payers currently are asked to assume. The business of health insurance comprises three separable core activities, each of which requires information that might derive from the medical record. These are claims processing, health care management, and risk pooling.
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Sennett, C. (1992). The Computer-based Patient Record: The Third Party Payer’s Perspective. In: Ball, M.J., Collen, M.F. (eds) Aspects of the Computer-based Patient Record. Computers in Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3873-5_6
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