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Standing Out in a Noisy World
Author: Chenoweth, Ann
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2017
Many influential thought leaders have come to realize there are three foundational elements to getting your ideas understood and appreciated: social proof, which gives people a reason to listen to you; content creation, which allows them to evaluate the quality of your ideas; and your netw....
Evolution of Coding Information/Resources to an Organization-wide Portal Site
Author: Gibbs, Sally
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2017
How does a healthcare system with 24 hospitals, 40 physician offices, and 50 free-standing ambulatory surgery centers that spans from the entire state of California to just over the Oregon border continue to keep their coding and billing staff current with the latest coding guidelines and....
Uniting HIM and IT: Lessons Learned Offer Tangible Takeaways to Bridge the Disconnect and Bring Departments Together
Author: Haugen, Mary Beth; Dascher, Paula; Manor, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2017
Editor’s Note: This article is a follow-up to the piece “Bridging HIM’s Disconnect with IT” that appeared in the March 2016 Journal of AHIMA.
As healthcare organizations move toward value-based models, health information management (HIM) and informatio....
Querying Through the Chaos: How to Get Docs' Attention Amidst the Digital Healthcare Haze
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2016
It wasn’t that long ago that online dating—and resultant marriages—carried a stigma. There was a sharp divide between the people who believed in meeting their loves the old fashioned way, and those who felt that online dating was a natural extension of their already Internet-centric profe....
Strategies for Navigating the Approaching Wave of New ICD-10 Codes
Author: Tully, Melinda
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: May 31, 2016
Before many health information management (HIM) professionals feel fully confident that they have the new ICD-10 codes under control, they should know that there are more on the way. More than 5,500 new procedure and diagnosis codes will go into effect beginning in October 2016, follo....
Bridging HIM's Disconnect with IT: Build Relationships First, Tackle Differences Later
Author: Haugen, Mary Beth; Richardson, Amy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2016
Consider the following fictional, and perhaps all-too-familiar, conversation between health information management (HIM) department staff and health information technology (IT) staff:
Chief Information Officer (CIO) to HIM Director: “Were you aware that last month we implem....
Getting Started with Information Governance: Applying SBAR to IG
Author: Glondys, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2016
A communication technique developed by the United States Navy and used with nuclear submarines has been endorsed by multiple healthcare organizations. That technique, known as “SBAR,” is an acronym for “Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation,” a technique....
How to Lead Your Organization in Compliance, Ethics, and Customer Service: Health Information Management Professionals Can Help Organizations Create a Culture of Compliance
Author: Burton, Ben
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2014
Today’s healthcare organizations must field a constant bombardment of both new and evolving regulations that dictate how, when, or where patients may receive care. The changing regulatory landscape—combined with the fact that the government is recovering $16 for every dollar spent to comb....
Taking Coding to the Next Level through Clinical Validation
Author: AHIMA Work Group
Source: Journal of AHIMA | AHIMA web extra
Publication Date: January 2014
Health information management (HIM) is a discipline that has rapidly evolved toward roles of increasing complexity and demand in recent years and the coding profession has been one area at the center of this growth. Even though the HIM profession is currently rethinking their coding and clinica....
How Can I Help You? Top 10 Customer Service Tips for HIM Professionals
Author: Aschettino, Lucia; Birnbaum, Cassi L; Crocker, Janice; Grebner, Leah A.; McNicholas, Faith C.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2013
Health information management (HIM) best practices state that it is important for HIM professionals to focus not just on the information but also on internal and external customers. Customers have varied, and ever-changing, needs that must be met by HIM professionals. Both internal and ext....
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