23 results.
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....
Prompt, the Alert, and the Legal Record: Documenting Clinical Decision Support Systems
Author: Rollins, Gina
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2005
As evidence-based medicine systems proliferate, organizations are grappling with the question of when—or whether—to document them in the legal record. So far, the prompts are many, but the answers are few.
A physician enters a medication order in a computerized physician orde....
Pursuit of Excellence in Medical Record Reviews
Author: Nelson, Mary; Aman, Shari
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2002
Using tools from JCAHO, an HIM professional and a performance improvement coordinator redesigned the medical record review process, making it more efficient and more effective. (FORE Best Practice, AHIMA Foundation)
Taking the Initiative with Nursing Home Quality
Author: Mitchell, Sue
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2003
When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its highlights of 2002, the listing of significant accomplishments included the departments efforts to improve quality of care. Discussion of quality improvement efforts focused on the departments initiatives in measurin....
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....
Toward a Conceptual Knowledge Management Framework in Health
Author: Lau, Francis
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: September 2004
Abstract
This paper describes a conceptual organizing scheme for managing knowledge within the health setting. First, a brief review of the notions of knowledge and knowledge management is provided. This is followed by a detailed depiction of our proposed knowledge management....
Driving Change through Rapid Demonstrations
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2003
The American healthcare system is in crisis and consumers are taking notice. Insurance costs are rising at double-digit rates and employers are passing along more of the cost to employees, leading to a recent nationwide strike at GE earlier this year. One in seven Americans is uninsured and fe....
Power of Cancer Data
Author: Jeffries, Jane
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2002
HIM professionals know that every piece of patient data collected is valuable. Cancer registrars like Linda Mulvihill, RHIT, CTR, can watch the patient data they collect become cancer screening tools, public health dollars, and the disease statistics found every day in the newspaper.
Integrating Core Measures with Your Quality Management Process
Author: Hyde, Linda A.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: September 23, 2002
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....
Determinants and Informative Antenatal Health Record Development
Author: Hatta, Gemala
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Background
Maternal death has been a prime concern globally. The maternal mortality rate (MMR) in Indonesia of 390/100,000 live births is among the highest of contributing Asian nations, revealing deep-seated problems. One way to decrease MMR in Indonesia is by performing good quality ob....
Navigating the Measure Jungle: NQF’s Quality Positioning System Simplifies the Task
Author: Galterio, Louis
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2013
Anyone unfamiliar with quality measurement and reporting might find the journey of self-education daunting. There are numerous organizations that develop, use, and require sets or collections of measures for reporting, and many address different measurement goals. There are varying areas o....
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....
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 departments policies and procedures. <....
Winning Partners - HIM and Clinical Decision Support Team Save $20 Million
Author: Clark, Jean S.; Courteney, Carol
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: September 23, 2002
Practice Toolkit: Hospice
Author: Burrington-Brown, Jill
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2005
Hospice Challenges
When asked about challenges in HIM in the hospice care setting, Myers notes that the challenges in ensuring hospice records are complete and reflect the care given are very similar to those in other healthcare facilities. In fact, another member of the CoP, Susan Torzew....
Six Sigma Makes Sense as Quality Initiative
Author: Burrington-Brown, Jill
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2002
Is the Six Sigma business management system the new kid on the block in terms of quality initiatives? It may be new to healthcare, but it has been in place at various manufacturers, most notably Motorola, since the 1980s.
This article examines how Six Sigma is bein....
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....
Using Human Factors Engineering Concepts to Improve Documentation
Author: Booth, Julie Harmata
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 21, 2005
Introduction
Human factors engineering is the science of designing tools, tasks, information, and work systems to be compatible with the abilities of human users; this includes both physical and cognitive abilities. As a science, human factors engineering provides a framework to c....
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....
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....
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.