Author: Smith, Carla; Bowman, Sue E; Dooling, Julie A

Source: AHIMA report

Publication Date: January 2019

By Carla Smith, MA, CNM, FHIMSS; Sue Bowman, MJ, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA; and Julie A. Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA


The popular business adage “What gets measured gets managed” reminds us that improving, controlling, and managing any business process is contingent on fi....

Author: Dooling, Julie A; Kadlec, Lesley; Pruente, Megan; Ward, Maria; Woebkenberg, Jami; Butler-Henderson, Kerryn CHIA, FAHIMA; Ginn, Dustin MA, MHA, RHIA; Retallack, Donna RHIT; Young III, John RHIA, CHPS, CPHIMS, HCISPP

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2018

By Kerryn Butler-Henderson, CHIA, FAHIMA; Julie Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA; Dustin Ginn, MA, MHA, RHIA; Lesley Kadlec, MA, RHIA, CHDA; Megan Pruente, RHIA; Donna Retallack, RHIT; Maria Ward, MEd, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P; Jami Woebkenberg, MHIM, RHIA, CPHI; and....

Author: Dooling, Julie A

Source: AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2018

Cross-Functional Teams: Collaborate and Listen
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By Julie Pursley Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA


Technology is often blamed for our troubles and challenges working with healthcare data. However, human interaction and poor....

Author: Dooling, Julie A; Pruente, Megan

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: March 16, 2017

The LGBT patient population have identification and documentation needs that are not being addressed in today’s mainstream healthcare workflows. Capturing sexual orientation and gender identity (SO/GI) is a relatively new concept and the need for this standardized, private, and secure....

Author: Dooling, Julie A; Rihanek, Theresa; Warner, Diana; Wiedemann, Lou Ann

Source: AHIMA toolkit

Publication Date: November 2016

The Disaster Planning Toolkit outlines disruption recovery plan components and how to address items including strategies, responsibilities, requirements, and procedures for the processes of recovery.

Author: Dooling, Julie A; Profitt, Karen

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: October 26, 2016

Searching for the quickest path to establish and access data “sources of truth” in your healthcare organization?


In the past, health information management (HIM) professionals were taught to maintain a patient’s health information in a central repository. The paper healt....

Author: Dooling, Julie A; Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Kirby, Annessa; Kadlec, Lesley; Landsbach, Grant; Lusk, Katherine; Munns, Megan; Noreen, Neysa; O'Connor, Michele

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2016

In healthcare, matching patients accurately to their medical history across multiple care sites and among various sources of data has become increasingly important as healthcare data is shared across platforms. Additionally, as clinicians need to interact with third parties and provide car....

Author: Dooling, Julie A; Houser, Shannon H.; Mikaelian, Raymound; Smith, Clarice Pittillo

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2016

Are you a data-driven individual? Is your health information management (HIM) department focused on becoming data-driven or informatics-oriented?


Today’s data analytics and informatics-oriented organizations are the centerpiece of operations and strategic visioning&mda....

Author: Dooling, Julie A

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: April 21, 2016

The cleanliness, integrity, and trustworthiness of our provider data is essential to remember at all times, even as focus shifts toward other important initiatives, such as working toward a better method of matching and identifying our patients.  When it comes to managing and governin....

Author: Deming, Sally; Dooling, Julie A; Kadlec, Lesley; Kirby, Annessa; Munns, Megan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2016

The 2015 Supreme Court decision requiring states to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize same sex marriage across state lines has widespread implications for health records management.1


This article will describe these implications and issu....