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Release of Information: Costs Remain High in a Hybrid, Highly Regulated Environment
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....
Adding a Genomic Healthcare Component to a Health Information Management Curriculum
Author: Ludwig, Bailee; Zhou, Leming; Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.; Abdelhak, Mervat N.
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: October 2010
D.I.Y. R.O.I: Do It Yourself Release of Information
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....
HITECH Security – A Practical Approach
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....
Developing an HIM Centric Privacy & IT Security Approach in Healthcare
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....
Data Security Compliance in IT Asset Disposition
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....
Re-engineering ROI Using Your EHR
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....
Too Much Privacy? OCR Proposes Easing Protections on Decedent Records
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....
Understanding the HIE Landscape
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....
Pacing the ARRA Changes: Tackling the ARRA Rules and Regulations as They Come
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....
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