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Health IT for the People: An Increasing Movement—but No Road Map—for Patient-centered Health IT
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2010
There is increasing recognition that health IT should work for patients, too, providing them with information they need in ways that are convenient to them. But although the journey is beginning, no one has a map.
The health IT landscape is still uncharted territory for most US provi....
Patient-Centered Care: Looking ahead to Stage 2
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: February 2011
Editor’s note: In the cover story to this month’s print issue, Journal writer Chris Dimick explores the patient-centered measures in the meaningful use EHR incentive program. As experts tells him, the current stage 1 measures are a good start to getting patients more informatio....
HIM Best Practices for Managing Patient Portals
Author: Dixon, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2012
The healthcare industry is on the cusp of changing the way providers communicate with their patients. Technology holds great promise in empowering patients to manage their health.
Patient portals are one way organizations can engage patients in their healthcare. They enable....
Enabling a Patient-Centered System: Roles Expand as More Information Flows to and from Patients
Author: Dowling, Alan F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2010
Recently, while speaking with patients’ family members about their perception that healthcare is too fragmented, I was reminded of my earlier experiential research findings: that the proper scope for analyzing or designing work processes is macroergonomics-the integration of mission-based proc....
Patient Engagement, Patient Portals, and Information Governance
Author: Downing, Kathy
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: December 15, 2016
Involving patients in the management of their health (patient engagement) encourages greater patient participation in care. It also increases the integrity of the health information stored by our health systems—patients will be the first to tell you if the information is incorrect. P....
Personal Medical Devices: Managing Personal Data, Personally Collected
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2010
New technologies are enabling patients to capture and transmit health data from their homes. Managing this new data stream takes some planning.
Managing health information that flows into the organization from outside sources has always posed challenges. How will the information be i....
Healthcare On Demand: An Expanding World of Telemedicine Raises New Questions for HIM Professionals
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2014
It’s midnight, and your cough has been unrelenting. You power up your laptop and visit one of the many websites that feature online access to physicians 24/7. Within minutes, you’re engaging in a video consultation with a board-certified physician who evaluates you, provides clinical inst....
Patient Portals: Express Lane on the Health Information Highway
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
No information request traffic jams.
No toll road trips to the physical HIM department.
Just an open and instant route to patient health information.
But building and managing a patient portal requires HIM knowledge and expertise.
Patient portals are rapid....
Renewing Interest in the PHR: HIM Should Encourage Patients to Embrace PHRs, Consumer Engagement
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2013
Consumers may have been slow to adopt personal health records (PHR) in the past, but experts say this may soon change with the government’s increased focus on consumer engagement.
“The role of the patient is so different now in terms of being an active rather tha....
Personal Check: Patients the New Ally in Data Integrity Management
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2013
When Deborah Kohn recently logged onto her healthcare provider's patient portal to view her X-ray reports, she immediately knew something wasn't quite right. She'd undergone one X-ray of her left hand and another of her right hand. The problem?
Both X-ray reports were identi....
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