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Aligning Computer-Assisted Coding and Information Governance Efforts
Author: Weinberg, Jason; Peterson, Stephanie; Marc, David; Sandefer, Ryan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
AHIMA defines information governance as “the enterprise-wide framework for managing information throughout its lifecycle and supporting the organization’s strategy, operations, regulatory, legal, risk and environmental requirements.”1 AHIMA recognizes that successful heal....
Data Bank: Using Data Assets to Support Evolving Payment Models and Survive Healthcare Reform
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
Washington, DC, has one of the highest populations of individuals who either have AIDS or are HIV-positive in the US. In an effort to improve early diagnosis rates, treatment compliance, and prevention, researchers are using innovative data analytics methods to track participants in a pil....
Making Health Data Elegant
Author: Moschel, Matthew
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
Too often, data analysts make life difficult for themselves. An analyst may produce code that is much longer and more complicated than it needs to be, causing a coworker to re-run code for several hours, not including the execute time. Why? These challenges stem from three root sources of....
Are You a Data Analyst and Don’t Know It?
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
Do you analyze case mix? Have you been asked to run a report on patients seen in the emergency department with dog bites? Do you report monthly physician query trends? Have you ever been asked to “pull that information out of the EHR?” Do you know that revenue code 361 often re....
Examining the Computation of the Chi-square Statistical Test
Author: Overgaard, Shauna M
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: October 2015
Outcome measures such as patient satisfaction, rates of readmission, and procedural complications play heavily into the penalization of an organization’s financial reimbursement.
It is important to evaluate data on multiple levels in order to consider all opportunities for in....
Information Governance Provides the Framework for Data Governance
Author: Washington, Lydia
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: November 12, 2015
Data governance is a hot topic these days, as healthcare organizations begin to realize that the analytics capabilities that are necessary for new care and payment models are not feasible without some sort of unified and consistent enterprise approach to data management. Building an effect....
Calling All Data Mongers—Consider a Career as a Health Data Analyst
Author: Kadlec, Lesley
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: December 18, 2015
If you are reading this blog post, you have probably already figured out that data analytics is complex. Understanding data analytics is like the proverbial peeling back of the onion skin, the more layers you take off, the more layers you find underneath.
In today’s healthcar....
Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections Starts with Data Collection
Author: Cange, John R
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2016
To prevent a problem, however, requires that you understand the potential causes of the problem—and this understanding requires data. A complete understanding requires a complete dataset. In the case of HAIs, the ideal dataset would contain data concerning every type of HAI from ever....
Digital Family History Data Mining with Neural Networks: A Pilot Study
Author: Hoyt, Robert; Linnville, Steven; Thaler, Stephen; Moore, Jeffrey
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: January 2016
Abstract
Following the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009, electronic health records were widely adopted by eligible physicians and hospitals in the United States. Stage 2 meaningful use menu objectives include a digi....
Getting Your Feet Wet with Open-Source Statistical Languages
Author: Taylor, Nathan Patrick
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: January 25, 2016
If you are new to healthcare analytics, it can be quite expensive to get up and running with a statistical application. Between the cost of the software itself and the instructional courses—not to mention your investment of time—just getting started could run several thousand dollars. Than....
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