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Checklist to Assess Data Quality Management Efforts (1998) - Retired
Author: AHIMA Data Quality Management Task Force
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: March 1998
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Monitoring Performance Improvement Using Decision Support Systems
Author: Hohmann, Samuel; Buff, Elizabeth Logan; Wietecha, Gary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 1998
The increasing use of clinically integrated decision support systems is creating new opportunities for HIM professionals. Here's a look at how such a system was used by one team to monitor performance improvement activities.
One of the top forces driving data automation in healthcar....
Navigating from Data to Excellence
Author: Buff, Elizabeth Logan; Hohmann, Samuel
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 1999
How can health information help an organization improve its performance? The authors offer an approach to measuring performance using familiar tools—a compass and a dashboard.
A healthcare organization uses clinical data in a number of ways—to....
Are Report Cards Measuring Up?
Author: Spath, Patrice L.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2000
Healthcare report cards have been in existence for more than 10 years. Have their efforts
to measure and compare performance made a difference? This article looks at the state
of the art.
In the late 1960s, researchers in Maine decided to study the use of healthcare services....
Managing Information in the Quality Department
Author: Spath, Patrice L.
Source: Quality Resource (newsletter)
Publication Date: March 02, 2001
The demands for performance measurement data are increasing, and quality management departments are challenged to do more with less. No one wants to say "no" to a data request, and yet priorities must be established to prevent the quality management staff from becoming overburdened. Effective....
ISO 9001:2000--Setting the Standard for Quality Management
Author: Edelstein, Myra Ellen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2001
How will you approach the next quality management initiative? This article offers an introduction to the ISO 9001:2000 quality management system standards that can be applied to the HIM industry and how these standards can improve your department’s policies and procedures. <....
Journal Q&A (6/01)
Author: AHIMA Staff
Source: AHIMA Q and A
Publication Date: June 02, 2001
Q: What are the Joint Commission definitions of a sentinel event and root cause analysis?
A: The Joint Commission defines a sentinel event as "an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or risk thereof. Serious injury specifically includes loss o....
Data Warehousing Improves Care, Demonstrates Return on Investment
Author: Mercer, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2001
by Michele Mercer, RN, MS, HSA
Without an enterprise data warehouse, we were flying blind," says Robert Robison, MD, chief medical officer of Horizon Mercy in Trenton, NJ.
Horizon/Mercy, one of the largest managed care organizations in the nation, administers an....
More Than a Database: Mining Your Data for Decision-making Success
Author: Farishta, Mehnaz
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2001
Are you drowning in data instead of sailing on the power of knowledge? Data mining technology can uncover hidden and unexpected patterns in data for strategic decision making in healthcare.
Here’s how it works.
In today’s environment, healthcare organizations need more....
Reducing Medication Errors with IT and Process Change
Author: Barbell, Alan S.; Sublett, Patsy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2001
The publication of To Err is Human broke the silence in the healthcare industry and has made it possible to have discourse on both the scope and possible solutions to the problem of medical errors-medication errors in particular.1 Data on the numbers of deaths and injuries attributable to medi....
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