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Assoc. Prof . Dr. Azimatun Noor Aizuddin

Assoc. Prof . Dr. Azimatun Noor Aizuddin

Clinical Coding And Casemix

Mini Biography

Associate Prof Dr Azimatun Noor Aizuddin is a registered Public Health Physician (NSR 125455) and Senior Hospital and Health Management Consultant in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Her field of practice is in clinical coding and casemix, health financing and hospital information system. She is currently the head of International Centre for Casemix and Clinical Coding (ITCC), Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz (HCTM) and member of National Casemix and Clinical Coding Experts Committee. In addition, she is also a member of Technical Advisory Committee for Health Technologies Economic Evaluation (TACHTEE), Honorary Secretary of the Health Economics Association Malaysia (MAHEA) and EXCO of Malaysian Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research Group (MySPOR). She is passionate in looking at government and community affordability in financing the healthcare.

Flowchart of Credentialing and Privileging in HCTM for International Candidates

DEFINITION

Credentialing: a process to set the standards and to do an evaluation for a person’s qualification in a field or procedure. It is recognition for the professional training done by a medical practitioner.

Privileges: the rights given by the hospital for a medical practitioner to give treatments or to do procedures on hospital patients based on the qualifications of the training, and the medical practitioner’s experience and expertise.