Author: Dunn, Rose T

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2010

Release of information will get easier as health IT advances. But for now, it can be a labor-intensive effort requiring more expenses than many outside the process may realize.

Healthcare organizations may perform their release of information function internally with employed st....

Author: Ludwig, Bailee; Zhou, Leming; Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.; Abdelhak, Mervat N.

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: October 2010

Author: Haas, Mark

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: September 29, 2010

BACKGROUND


The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has seen a precipitous increase in the volume of release of information requests processed over the past five years. The Health Information Management department has struggled mightily with trying to handle this steady increas....

Author: Rudloff, Rob

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: September 28, 2010

Background


HITECH has introduced new security requirements around HIPAA including new breach requirements and associated penalties. This paper addresses the information security and privacy requirements and provides practical solutions to address them. Many organizations already....

Author: Adam, Chris

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: September 28, 2010

Introduction

Stories about the theft of confidential data have made headlines all too frequently over the past few years. This reality is forcing some businesses to face up to an inconvenient truth: Many organizations have no reliable procedures to ensure that the computers and rel....

Author: Cothran, Carey L.; Kost-Woodrow, Beth

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: September 28, 2010

Background

With the increased governmental funding for implementation of electronic health records and increased prevalence of regional data exchange, comes increased provider obligation, strengthening of regulation and likely unprecedented enforcement activities. The emerging landscape....

Author: Robertson, April D.; Rohs, Matt; Verity, Margaret; Broker, Jean

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: September 25, 2010

Introduction

In the past, release of information (ROI) was an area within the health information management department stacked high with paper charts, rubber thumbs and an industrial-strength photocopy machine. With the advent of electronic document management systems and electroni....

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2010

The HIPAA privacy rule generally conveys to individuals the same rights in death that they held in life. Two current proposals would change that, reducing the protections that covered entities currently must afford a deceased patient's record and easing access to decedent records by family....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief

Publication Date: September 2010

The health information exchange (HIE) landscape has changed dramatically over the past five years. More HIEs are available to organizations and providers than ever before. Industry initiatives leveraging technological advances and the call for all Americans to have an electronic health record b....

Author: Featheringham, Meg

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2010

Through the winter and spring healthcare waited for the next round of ARRA-related regulations. Now they are here, and organizations are tagged with implementing compliant programs.
How do you get started when it seems that everything needs doing at once?

Over the past year and....