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Who's Hiring
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,....
What’s New in 2: Top Changes in the Stage 2 Rule
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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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....
Too Much Privacy? OCR Proposes Easing Protections on Decedent Records
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....
The 63rd REC: http://healthit.gov
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....
Rules of Spring: Reviewing the Upcoming Regulations on HIPAA Privacy Rule Modifications
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....
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....
Pick One: Comparing the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
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....
Physician Practices and Information Management: HIM Professionals Offer Value in Changing Practices
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....
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....
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