Author: Dover, Kayce

Source: AHIMA newsletter article

Publication Date: June 2016

"Happy families are all alike," Leo Tolstoy famously wrote. And the same may hold true for HIM departments. So what are the factors that make an HIM department happy? HIM Connections recently conducted a survey of HIM managers and team members to learn about HIM happiness: What works well....

Author: Wilder, Steven S.

Source: In Confidence (newsletter)

Publication Date: March 02, 2002

Many of us who have been in health-care administration for more than a few years can remember a day when “securing medical records” meant enacting adequate control over who had keys to the record storage room, or perhaps an engineered access control system, and appropriate policies....

Author: Nelson, Kristin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2017

A unique job role has been created at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) related to onboarding, training, and student preceptorship that is seeing positive results and working to get past the Catch 22 of employment—you need experience to get a job, but you need a job....

Author: Nunn, Sandra L.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2008

Steve Case, cofounder of AOL and current founder, chairman, and CEO of Revolution Health, gave the keynote speech at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society convention this past winter. Someone asked him why he was reaching into a consumer-driven healthcare venture, and he an....

Author: Dimick, Chris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2007

Frank Kribbs, RHIA, couldn’t sit idle while others discussed core HIM issues. As soon as Kribbs heard about the work groups being formed nationwide to discuss privacy and security issues related to interoperable health information exchange (HIE), he volunteered to help.

HIM nee....

Author: Kloss, Linda L

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 1999

Two-thirds of today's health information managers will be in the prime of their careers 10 years from now. But what will the world of work look like? One way to gain an understanding of the future is to create scenarios. Scenarios are literally stories about the future th....

Author: Sheridan, Patty Thierry; D'Ambrosio, Michele; Heinecke, Kerry

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2005

In times like these, every HIM department needs a plan. Visioning techniques help managers picture the future and draw a road map to e-HIM.



The transformation from paper-based health records to electronic health records (EHRs) is ushering in the age of the virtual....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA report

Publication Date: September 24, 2007

Author: Servais, Cheryl

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2009

Health IT is untethering HIM departments from the organization’s four walls. The benefits are there, but the change affects nearly every HIM operation.



The same computer systems and Internet-derived technologies that support electronic health records (EH....

Author: Black, Barbara; Johnson, Kathy M; Phillips, Rachel

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Overview

In today's workplace, efficiency of operation has become more important than physical location. Employers have been motivated by the tight labor market and advances in technology to offer flexible work arrangements, in particular teleworking, to recruit and retain talented emplo....