Author: Harris Interactive

Source: External web site

Publication Date: August 10, 2004

Author: Hagland, Mark

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2000

Across the Internet, commercial services are developing online consumer health records. How do these work? What are the implications for HIM professionals? This article takes a look.

Like a sudden gust of wind whipping across a prairie frontier, a new phenomenon is emerging in hea....

Author: Hagland, Mark

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2005

The PHR represents more than a consumer-managed health history. It’s a new way to see the consumer’s role in healthcare.
Sheryl Rose, RHIT, an assistant manager of HIM at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Spokane, WA, recently switched physicians. Following her first appointme....

Author: Hagland, Mark

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2001

Personal health records online are flourishing, but every setup is different. Here’s a look at how organizations and patients are managing personal health records.
Last spring Eugene Ernest “Ernie” Somera found out that he had elevated blood sugars, a sign that he was slid....

Author: Grebner, Leah A.; Mikaelian, Raymound

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2015

Health information management (HIM) professionals are familiar with mobile health (mHealth) technologies from a provider perspective, but technology has provided the ability for healthcare consumers to also utilize mHealth to become more actively engaged in managing their personal healthc....

Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2012

In our profession, it all comes down to trust. Patients place their trust in us as HIM professionals to ensure that their information is safe, secure, and accurate, and that it will be accessible in the right place at the right time.


It’s often an unspoken pact, someth....

Author: Goethals, Colleen

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2005

As HIM professionals we encourage consumers to maintain personal health records. Are we ready to help them do it? Here’s a quick refresher on good customer service in the HIM department.
AHIMA’s Consumer Education Campaign encourages consumers to create and maintain their own....

Author: Garvin, Jennifer Hornung; Odom-Wesley, Barbara; Rudman, William J.; Stewart, Rachelle S.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2009

The Institute of Medicine defines disparities in healthcare as racial or ethnic differences in the quality of healthcare that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs preferences, and appropriateness of intervention.1 Geographic isolation, poverty, lack of trained healthcare....

Author: Fuji, Kevin T.; Galt, Kimberly A.; Serocca, Alexandra B.

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: September 2008

Author: Friedman, Beth

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2005

From banking to travel, consumers manage a variety of personal records online. Now providers are experimenting with several ways to give consumers more control over their health records.
Every day consumers log on to the Internet to access bank accounts, stock portfolios, and travel itin....