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Implementation and Impact of Psychiatric Electronic Medical Records in a Public Medical Center
Author: Xiao, Anna Q; Acosta, Frank X
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: October 2016
Abstract
Objectives: This study describes the efforts to implement electronic charting in a large public psychiatric outpatient clinic with the objective to improve clinical documentation.
Methods: Data made available through the quality review process are utilized t....
Improving the Collection of Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data to Reduce Healthcare Disparities: A Case Study from an Academic Medical Center
Author: Lee, Wei-Chen; Veeranki, Sreenivas P; Serag, Hani; Eschbach, Karl; Smith, Kenneth D
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: October 2016
Abstract
Well-designed electronic health records (EHRs) must integrate a variety of accurate information to support efforts to improve quality of care, particularly equity-in-care initiatives. This case study provides insight into the challenges those initiatives may face in colle....
How to Break Into Analytics and Informatics
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Shawn Wells, RHIT, CHDA, manager of HIM data integrity at the University of Utah Healthcare, put himself on the health information management (HIM) career trajectory that HIM educators dream of using as an example.
Wells, who was also the first person in the state of Utah....
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....
Losing the Match Game: Study Reveals Gaps in HIM’s Patient Identity Integrity Practices
Author: Dooling, Julie A; Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Kirby, Annessa; Kadlec, Lesley; Landsbach, Grant; Lusk, Katherine; Munns, Megan; Noreen, Neysa; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
In healthcare, matching patients accurately to their medical history across multiple care sites and among various sources of data has become increasingly important as healthcare data is shared across platforms. Additionally, as clinicians need to interact with third parties and provide car....
Tying Together CDI, ICD-10, and Healthcare Data Analytics: How CDI Programs and ICD-10 Are Impacting Data Analytics—and The Benefits Healthcare Organizations Are Seeing
Author: Bradley, Paul
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
A year in and ICD-10 is almost approaching the point of old news.
Of course—I’m kidding! Nothing could be further from the truth. From a data analytics perspective, the impact of ICD-10 is only beginning to be realized and understood.
For one, this first year....
Reduce BA Risk Through Due Diligence and Documentation
Author: Twiggs, Mariela; Goldstein, Sara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Healthcare provider organizations rely on a variety of entities to help them carry out healthcare activities and functions. If these entities create, maintain, or transmit protected health information (PHI) on behalf of a provider organization, they are considered a business associate (BA....
Transitioning to a Data-Driven, Informatics-Oriented Department
Author: Dooling, Julie A; Houser, Shannon H.; Mikaelian, Raymound; Smith, Clarice Pittillo
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Are you a data-driven individual? Is your health information management (HIM) department focused on becoming data-driven or informatics-oriented?
Today’s data analytics and informatics-oriented organizations are the centerpiece of operations and strategic visioning&mda....
Addressing Data, Information, and Record Quality Challenges Through Standards
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Data quality management has always been an area of focus for AHIMA. But the need for quality and integrity of data and information is greater than ever in all healthcare settings—especially with the growing adoption of health information technology (HIT), including electronic health....
Information Governance Road Map: Approaching Mile Marker 4
Author: Meehan, Ann M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Editor’s Note: This article is the seventh in a series that provides a road map for implementing an information governance (IG) program in any organization. Each month a set of concepts is discussed that tie to the IG Road Map Infographic developed by AHIMA. Any organization can take....
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