Author: Abrams, Kelly; Giannangelo, Kathy; Schneider, Sue; Scichilone, Rita A

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2014

Terminology asset management roles are emerging for HIM due to the EHR, but some key competencies are necessary to land the job.

Author: Abrams, Kelly; Giannangelo, Kathy; Schneider, Sue; Scichilone, Rita A

Source: Journal of AHIMA | AHIMA web extra

Publication Date: February 2014

Terminology asset management (TAM) in healthcare and research settings is an emerging role for HIM professionals, but requires certain skills and knowledge to move into these new TAM positions. This appendix is linked to the article “New Name of the HIM Game” published in the F....

Author: Giannangelo, Kathy; Hyde, Linda A.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2012

Each year there has been a significant increase in the number of quality measures being used for public reporting across provider settings. Additionally, many of the new healthcare reform initiatives include quality measure reporting in their requirements. A small subset of National Quality Fo....

Author: Giannangelo, Kathy

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2011

HIM professionals are most familiar with the data standards mandated through HIPAA. However, the data standard adoption process is also now part of the requirements for EHR technology in the meaningful use program.

Understanding the data standards adoption process under HIPAA and th....

Author: Giannangelo, Kathy

Source: ICD-TEN Top Emerging News | AHIMA newsletter article

Publication Date: June 2010

Plans and preparation for the October 2013 ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation center on educating the people who collect and store coded data. But equally important is educating the individuals and organizations that use these data for analysis and reporting on the quality of patient care.

Author: Giannangelo, Kathy; Hyde, Linda A.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2010

Plans and preparation for the October 2013 ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation center on educating the people who collect and store coded data. But equally important is educating the individuals and organizations that use these data for analysis and reporting on the quality of patient care.

Author: Giannangelo, Kathy

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 05, 2009

Introduction

Electronic health records (EHRs) provide the opportunity to capture and encode large amounts of clinical data. In order to capitalize on this data and to re-use it requires a methodology for data identification that maintains the context in which it was documented by the clin....

Author: Cook, Jane; Foley, Margaret M.; Giannangelo, Kathy; Paterno, Marilyn D.; Scichilone, Rita A; Schwarz, Kathleen M.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2009

Standardized clinical terminologies are critical connectors that allow systems to exchange health information.

In the winter of 1904 a major fire broke out in Baltimore, MD. The resulting damage—an entire swath of the downtown destroyed—was blamed largely on a lack of uni....

Author: Paterno, Marilyn D.; Rynberg, Sally J.; Giannangelo, Kathy

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2009

It can be a challenge to keep straight the many terms used in events, concepts, or data in clinical records. The following table provides definitions for some of the many terms to help HIM professionals differentiate among them.

The difference between terminologies and vocabularies....

Author: Giannangelo, Kathy; Fenton, Susan H.

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: May 2008