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Updating Organizational Policies and Procedures for Information Governance. Case Study #6: Enterprise Information Management at Children’s Health System of Texas
Author: Fahy, Kristi; Hermann, Michelle
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2017
Editor’s Note: This article is the sixth installment in an ongoing series highlighting information governance case studies.
AHIMA defines information governance (IG) as “an organization-wide framework for managing information throughout its life cycle and for supp....
Evolution of Coding Information/Resources to an Organization-wide Portal Site
Author: Gibbs, Sally
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2017
How does a healthcare system with 24 hospitals, 40 physician offices, and 50 free-standing ambulatory surgery centers that spans from the entire state of California to just over the Oregon border continue to keep their coding and billing staff current with the latest coding guidelines and....
Uniting HIM and IT: Lessons Learned Offer Tangible Takeaways to Bridge the Disconnect and Bring Departments Together
Author: Haugen, Mary Beth; Dascher, Paula; Manor, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2017
Editor’s Note: This article is a follow-up to the piece “Bridging HIM’s Disconnect with IT” that appeared in the March 2016 Journal of AHIMA.
As healthcare organizations move toward value-based models, health information management (HIM) and informatio....
Importance of Interdisciplinary Teams
Author: Combs, Tammy
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: November 23, 2016
Have you ever spent hours working on a project, only to find out at a random meeting that another team has been working on the same project? This type of scenario can be frustrating to both teams and lead to distrust in the work process—not to mention wasted time that could have been spent....
What Does the NLRB Have to Do with Healthcare Providers?
Author: Hedges, Ron
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: November 16, 2016
As a presenter at this year’s AHIMA Annual Convention and Exhibit, I covered many topics. While I plan to post about others in subsequent posts, this month I want to discuss a subject that many healthcare providers and their staff members might find unfamiliar: the National Labor Rela....
Developing a Plan to Master Physician Engagement
Author: Combs, Tammy
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: October 27, 2016
Mastering physician engagement can be a challenging process, but it is within reach when you develop a plan of action and have a little patience. During AHIMA’s 2016 CDI Summit: Advancing the Documentation Journey, held August 1-2 in Washington, DC, Dr. John Showalter, MD, MSIS, University....
Data Mining a Breach’s Silver Lining: Analyze Breach Data to Improve Release of Information Performance in HIM
Author: Delahoussaye, Elizabeth A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Health information management (HIM) professionals can pull meaningful information from privacy and security breach data to evaluate release of information (ROI) processes, uncover workflow risks, and implement corrective measures. While large scale breaches impacting millions of patients m....
Managing a Part-Time Remote CDI Team
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: July 29, 2016
As clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs become more popular, providers are still struggling with implementing CDI programs for several different reasons, including: geographical location; a shortage of outpatient coders and CDI specialists; or even the lack of physi....
Hiring for Competency: Hiring to Not Fail vs. Hiring to Succeed
Author: Rudman, William J.; Hart-Hester, Susan; Richey, John; Jackson, Kathryn
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: July 2016
Abstract
Evolving economic and technological advances have affected the work environment and the workforce, resulting in new competency requirements for employees. Finding the right person for each job can be difficult, and new hires often fail to meet employers’ expectations. Thi....
Querying Through the Chaos: How to Get Docs' Attention Amidst the Digital Healthcare Haze
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2016
It wasn’t that long ago that online dating—and resultant marriages—carried a stigma. There was a sharp divide between the people who believed in meeting their loves the old fashioned way, and those who felt that online dating was a natural extension of their already Internet-centric profe....
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