Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: October 2009

Kevin Heubusch


Oct 12, 2009 12:05 pm

In one sense, the future is already here for those who manage health information. The skills HIM professionals need today are not very different from those they’ll need in 10 years, according to a new survey of practitioners, recruiters,....

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2012

There are few surprises in CMS's proposed rule on stage 2 of the meaningful use program. The provisions generally reflect the recommendations of the Health IT Policy Committee made last year, and in the case of the intended change to the timeline, an announcement was made last December.
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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....

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2010

The HIPAA privacy rule generally conveys to individuals the same rights in death that they held in life. Two current proposals would change that, reducing the protections that covered entities currently must afford a deceased patient's record and easing access to decedent records by family....

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2012

In a January 6 blog post, Farzad Mostashari, MD, national coordinator for health IT, summarized a busy year at his office, highlighting 10 of 2011's "most notable developments in the world of health information technology and ONC."

Among these were 62 regional health IT extension ce....

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2011

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act came out with a bang in February 2009. The rules enacting its privacy and security provisions, however, have trickled out over the subsequent two years. Many of the provisions have the potential for significant impact on HIM operations, and the slow p....

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....

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2011

Approximately 77,000 healthcare providers had registered for the meaningful use EHR incentive programs through July, program officials told the Health IT Policy Committee at its August 3 meeting. That is a significant number, but it leaves plenty of eligible providers and hospitals still to re....

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2008

Health information management professionals offer contemporary physician practices a lot of expertise. In the coming era, they offer even more.

Sometimes overlooked in the talk about information technology is information management. For all the benefits that IT offers physician pract....

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....