You are designing a registration form. The patient's employer is a data field. What related data might you also collect regarding the patient's employer, and why?

What will be an ideal response?

Key pieces of data are name of employer, address of employer, phone number, position within the company, and how long the patient has been with the company. It is important to collect detailed information about the employer so that the office has a secondary phone number to reach the patient, if necessary, for collections purposes, should there be issues with his or her account. Also, the patient's position and how long the patient has been with a company may have a bearing on his or her health status (for example, a person who lays carpet for a living may exhibit chronic knee pain). This data is collected for insurance purposes and as part of the reimbursement process; it is a way of locating the patient, should he or she stop paying an outstanding balance on a bill.