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Expanding Universe: a New Manager Educates Herself -- and Upper Management, Too
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2004
In HIM, the universe is expanding. The key to expanding with it, says Mechel McKinney, BSB/A, RHIA, is education: educating yourself to do bigger and better HIM work and educating upper management about HIM’s important role throughout an organization.
McKinney began her HIM car....
Helping Coders Keep Current
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2004
On the heels of new medical procedures and new devices come the new codes and new interpretations to describe them. That’s why Terry Tropin says that coding’s biggest challenge is “keeping up.”
Tropin, RHIA, CCS-P, CPC, is manager of coding education at the Ameri....
Flash Forward: Leadership's Commitment is Crucial at a Hospital where Tomorrow Comes Today
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2005
When Angela Lehman, RHIA, arrived at Oklahoma Heart Hospital, Oklahoma City, in April 2004, the facility was less than two years old. From day one, it had been nearly paperless. For Lehman, the director of health information, the hospital leadership’s full commitment to the EHR’s s....
In New Role, Years of Experience
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2005
Scan Michelle Wieczorek’s credentials—RN, RHIT, CPHQ, CPUR—and consider how she came to work at the center of the external and internal Web sites of a major health system.
The biggest reason doesn’t have to do with knowing how information becomes pixels on a s....
Treating Physician Practices with a 5 Percent Solution
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2005
It’s an amazing challenge,” Suzanne Columbus admits. By 2008 the senior EHR implementation advisor must help at least 500 physician practices adopt health IT.
Columbus works at IPRO, New York State’s quality improvement organization (QIO). That puts her in the middl....
Interoperability: What it Means, Why it Matters
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2006
Healthcare’s hottest topic finally has two things it has badly needed: plain language and a sense of urgency.
Every health information story in 2006 will circle back to one word. In one way or another, every HIM story this year will relate to interoperability.
Healthcare....
Compliance Officer Brings HIM Insights to Data Standards Work
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2006
Data standards may seem like the work of IT specialists, but Nancy LeRoy knows that HIM can contribute valuable information about document flow and management. "The nuts and bolts of the HIM profession feed into standards work," she says.
LeRoy, BS, CCS, CCP, serves as cochair of th....
Language of Health Data Exchange
Author: Bloomrosen, Meryl; Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2006
Rapidly advancing data exchange initiatives have left a trail of acronyms in their wake. Is a SNO a RHIO, and where did LHIIs go?
As thinking on the nature of regional and nationwide data exchange evolves, terms devised from necessity have been left behind just as....
PHRs for the Masses?: Consumers Say They Are Interested in PHRs, but Will They Use Them?
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2007
Providers, payers, and employers are excited about personal health records (PHRs), as are vendors, policy groups, and the federal government. But what about consumers, the half of the equation that will use them?
When asked, the general population typically says they are in....
Piecing together the PHR
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2007
What health information is most useful to consumers? That’s a question only consumers can answer, one by one.
The personal health record, or PHR, might lack a common definition, a common data set, a common format, and a short list of sponsors. But it has one thing i....
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