Author: Grzybowski, Darice

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2008

For Mercy Health Partners, solving its paper records storage needs was a sound first step in achieving its long-range health IT plans.
Mercy Health Partners, part of the Catholic Healthcare Partners group, knew it couldn’t put the electronic cart before the paper horse.

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Author: Hedges, Ron

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2014

The term preservation, when used in a legal context, refers to placing information identified as relevant to a civil or criminal US court case in a legal hold to ensure the data is not destroyed or tampered with.


Health information managers, or anyone who works with records....

Author: Hedges, Ron

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2014

The September e-HIM Best Practices article answered some basic questions about preservation of records in the context of civil litigation. This article will consider the question, “What if something goes wrong?”

Spoliation Defined


Health information management (H....

Author: Hedges, Ron

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2014

Courts don’t remain civil on their own. It takes well-crafted procedural rules, enforced by knowledgeable attorneys and judges, to keep the American legal system humming along in an orderly fashion. Aiding with the civility of the law is the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Federal Rules....

Author: Journal of AHIMA Staff

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2017

Crumbling, decaying, and abandoned hospitals aren’t just physically dangerous examples of urban decrepitude—they also could be prime targets for medical identity thieves who know what they’re doing.


Take the case of Chicago, IL’s Edgewater Medical Center, a....

Author: Lail, Pamela J; Laird, Sarah S; McCall, Kris; Naretto, Joe; York, April

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: October 2016

Abstract


This article examines the current state of affairs of the health information management role in facility closure as well as the impact on revenue cycle operations. Health information management professionals are uniquely positioned to assist an organization in closure eff....

Author: Medicare Learning Network

Source: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Publication Date: August 10, 2010

Author: Nunn, Sandra L.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2008

Within the last decade, the domain of record retention management has exploded in response to the development of electronic records and their storage demands, the mandates emanating from regulations like HIPAA, and the emergence of e-discovery as the requisite method for compelling record prod....

Author: Nunn, Sandra L.; O'Connor, Michele

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 05, 2009

Introduction

Health Information Management professionals have embraced the challenge of implementing and managing the Electronic Health Record. This presentation will demonstrate how to stretch the skills the HIM professional developed in building the Electronic Health Record (EHR) to mov....

Author: Palkie, Brooke

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: March 16, 2017

As I begin digging into the intricacies of long-term digital preservation (LTDP) of electronic healthcare data, I am realizing how little I knew. The ever-changing formats and standards for accessing personal health information (PHI) come to mind. Once obsolete, how will this information b....