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Workaday Informatics: How Healthcare is Applying Practical Informatics to Save Dollars and Lives
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2015
Watch and learn. For clinical informaticist Nathan Patrick Taylor, MPH, MS, CHDA, and others like him, watching patient-physician encounters and learning from them is just as important as knowing how to query data in a health IT system. Because as technical as informatics can get, at its....
Data Analysis Starter Kit: How to Apply Informatics and Analyze ROI as an e-HIM Professional
Author: Dolezel, Diane
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2015
The digital era of Big Data has generated a growing need for more electronic health information management (e-HIM) professionals who can assume the emerging role of data analyst.1 This new role requires learning how to analyze data and perform statistical calculations to support informed d....
Watson vs. Big Data
Author: AHIMA Staff
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2015
It is the matchup of the century—the towering hulk of healthcare’s Big Data versus the super computer known as Watson. Will Watson be able to take on this lumbering, untamed mass of information and whip it into submission?
One year ago, the Journal of AHIMA reported on the IBM su....
Owning the EHR and Information Governance at Your Facility
Author: Head, Erin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2015
For many decades, health information management (HIM) departments have been the hub for information collected within healthcare organizations. HIM has frequently been referred to as the “medical records department” due to the perceived idea that the department’s main tasks are receiving a....
Measurement Brings Meaning to Population Health
Author: Overgaard, Shauna M; Dooling, Julie A
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: August 27, 2015
Healthcare payments are shifting and the industry is in a rapid state of change. Efficiencies to render patient care as a top priority are crucial. Measuring brings efficiencies and meaning to a patient population.
High-Level Measurements
Population-based statistics....
Informatics and HIM: Enabling Semantic Interoperability and the Learning Health System
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2015
Medical informatics is a field formalized in the 1990s with the rise of the adoption of information technology in healthcare including electronic health records systems (EHRs), laboratory information management systems (LIMS), radiology systems, and other health information technology (HIT....
Documentation and Coding in a Risk-based Environment: Obstacles to Be Aware Of
Author: Easterling, Sharon
Source: CodeWrite | AHIMA newsletter article
Publication Date: September 2015
With the implementation of the Value-Based Purchasing Model (VBP) and, more recently, statements in the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) fix, it remains clear that healthcare is going through a time of change. We must recognize risk in not only patient health management and outcomes, bu....
Health Information Exchange Readiness for Demonstrating Return on Investment and Quality of Care
Author: Khurshid, Anjum; Diana, Mark L; Jain, Rahul
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: 2015
Abstract
Objective—To study the extent to which community health information exchanges (HIEs) deliver and measure return on investment (ROI) and improvements in the quality of care.
Materials and Methods—We surveyed operational HIEs for their characterist....
Power of Data Analytics is Within Reach
Author: Birnbaum, Cassi L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
Data are the lifeblood of our healthcare ecosystem, with the potential of enabling organizations to improve care, manage chronically ill patients, lower costs, achieve compliance, support research, increase patient safety, and meet operational and strategic initiatives. Although health inf....
Moving HIM into Data Analytics a Must
Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
We must transform healthcare into a data-driven culture… because that’s where our bosses are headed.
A recent issue of Hospitals & Health Networks cited data analytics as one of the top skills that will be most critical in the next three years for healthcare....
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