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Reengineering Medical Records: The Dubois Regional Medical Center's Experience
Author: Johnson, Thomas H.; Pesek, James G.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 1998
Introduction
Many health services organizations were pushed in the direction of CQI/TQM by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' Agenda for Change, which recognized the critical need for quality improvement efforts.1 Reengineering and work redesign have....
Future of HIM: An Operational View
Author: Braden, James
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 1998
What will HIM processes, departments, and the patient record look like 10 years from now? The author offers a view of HIM operations at an academic medical center with an eye for operational, organizational, and functional structure.
The health information management profession has been....
Organizational Restructuring: One HIM Team's Approach
Author: Smith, Carol F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 1998
Organizational restructuring offers a number of challenges -- and opportunities -- to employees. This article describes how members of one organization's HIM staff participated in a systemwide restructuring process, from planning to implementation to assessment of results.
Today's era o....
Implementing the Wireless Computerized Patient Record
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 1997
The ability to provide timely, relevant, and accurate in-formation to the healthcare decision maker at the point of care is a critical success factor for any provider. For enterprises that operate in extremely competitive healthcare markets, the ability to meet this challenge could mean the d....
Successful Methodology for improving the quality of clinical data
Author: Slaughter, James; Willner, Sue
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 1996
Overview
Consensus is growing in the healthcare industry that organizations with fully integrated clinical information systems will become the leaders in a fiercely competitive environment. Kaiser Permanente's Northern California Region (KPNCR) believes that such a system can support the....
Reengineering the Documentation Process
Author: Grzybowski, Darice; Fox, Leslie Ann
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 1996
Project Rationale and History
We dream of a world where all medical record forms are complete and legible, neatly and proportionately designed, easily converted into electronic format, and efficient for those who document in them; contain clear identification data; and meet all legal, ac....
Disaster Plans: Lessons Learned
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 1996
Shortly after I accepted my first position as director of medical records, I began to develop time management skills and created a "to do" list. One item on my list that got very little attention was my department's disaster plan. Working in a 55-bed hospital in a peaceful eastern Texas commu....
Human Factor: Ergonomics and the Coding Function
Author: Layman, Elizabeth J.; Heaps, Thomas; Bell, Brenda
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 1992
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