Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2012

The start of 2012 has been anything but quiet regarding HIM issues. Here are some of the hot-button issues and events AHIMA and the healthcare industry have contended with in just the first few months of 2012.
AMA versus ICD-10

Following a vote in its house of delegates in Nove....

Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2016

This month, AHIMA celebrates our fourth annual Information Governance (IG) Month. AHIMA created this event to increase awareness and understanding of IG and to help members understand IG’s importance to HIM practice. You’ll be seeing more details about IG Month in our publicati....

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Source: AHIMA Today

Publication Date: October 05, 2009

The path of the HIM profession is not always decided inside the healthcare facility. Local, state, and federal government agencies and national standards organizations routinely make decisions that dramatically affect an HIM professional’s work and career.

In order to have a say in t....

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Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2008

At a press conference AHIMA announced an expanded public awareness campaign to promote personal health record (PHR) awareness. Titled “It’s HI Time, America!” the campaign will promote four components essential to a comprehensive health record: high technology, high quality, high security, and....

Author: Jeffries, Jane

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2003

Convention attendees received a powerful call to action in one of the Convention’s general sessions, “E-HIM: The Imperative, The Opportunity.” AHIMA Executive Vice President and CEO Linda Kloss, RHIA, CAE, explained the forces behind the healthcare industry’s migration to a....

Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2001

HIPAA's fifth anniversary was marked by meetings of two key subcommittees of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS): the standards (transactions) and security subcommittee and the privacy and confidentiality subcommittee. At the security subcommittee, experts fr....

Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2010

This spring, as the healthcare industry waited for the “meaningful use” regulations, AHIMA held its second ICD-10 Summit. During the meeting, presenters Deborah Kohn, MPH, RHIA, FACHE, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, and Elaine Lips, RHIA, noted that healthcare is in the midst of a perfect storm of new regula....

Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2016

Late last year, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Karen DeSalvo challenged an audience at the Bipartisan Policy Center to commit to a future where consumers can easily and securely access their health information; where providers share health information for care with....

Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2004

In May 2002 the AHIMA Board of Directors declared a position on what, for most professionals in the industry, is only a dream: a national health information infrastructure. The statement read, “AHIMA believes that for the United States’ healthcare industry to meet the current and f....

Author: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Team

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2014

The ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee, a public forum on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS code updates, met in September 2013. Meetings of this committee are co-chaired by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Coding proposals are presented at these meetings and the public is given the opportunity to comment. No final decisions regarding the adoption of code proposals are made at the meetings, but are made by the director of NCHS and the administrator of CMS.