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Streamlining Patient and Physician Communication: IT Systems and Internet Offer Paths for Effective Communication for Patient Care
Author: Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2010
Many organizations still struggle with ongoing and timely clinical communication among physicians and between physicians and their patients. Physician-to-physician communication for ongoing patient care is especially complex. It requires identifying all physicians involved in the care of a pat....
Patient-Centered Care: Looking ahead to Stage 2
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: February 2011
Editor’s note: In the cover story to this month’s print issue, Journal writer Chris Dimick explores the patient-centered measures in the meaningful use EHR incentive program. As experts tells him, the current stage 1 measures are a good start to getting patients more informatio....
HIM Best Practices for Managing Patient Portals
Author: Dixon, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2012
The healthcare industry is on the cusp of changing the way providers communicate with their patients. Technology holds great promise in empowering patients to manage their health.
Patient portals are one way organizations can engage patients in their healthcare. They enable....
From PHRs to Portals and Beyond: Patient-centric Healthcare Movement Changing HIM
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....
Patient Portals: Express Lane on the Health Information Highway
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
No information request traffic jams.
No toll road trips to the physical HIM department.
Just an open and instant route to patient health information.
But building and managing a patient portal requires HIM knowledge and expertise.
Patient portals are rapid....
Treating Healthcare with Health "I"T
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
Patient-Centric Stage 2 Meaningful Use Measures Considered Treatment for Ailing US Health System
The US healthcare system is ill. Higher costs, sicker patients, and struggling providers are the symptoms of the disease that has sent industry stakeholders scrambling t....
Consumer Preparedness in the Face of Disaster
Author: Wolter, Julie; Dolan, Marsha; Dooling, Julie A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
PHRs and patient portals can provide much needed links to health information in times of catastrophe
When a disaster hits, the impact is vast and devastating for victims and their loved ones. This point was driven home in 2011, when the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) repo....
Rebooting Release of Information: Patient Portals are Changing ROI, but Analog Record Release is Still Necessary
Author: Crawford, Mark
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2013
Patient portals are becoming commonplace in healthcare facilities, which have installed the technology to provide patients and physicians immediate online access to electronic medical records. Adoption of patient portals will continue to increase, driven in part by stage 2 “meaningfu....
Declassifying Doctors' Notes
Author: Crawford, Mark
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2013
"Open Notes" Project Gives Patients Simple, Affordable, and Resoundingly Effective Access to Clinician Notes
Exactly who owns a patient's health record-answer, the patient-was once an unknown to many patients and non-HIM staff in healthcare. While HIM professionals have....
Personal Check: Patients the New Ally in Data Integrity Management
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2013
When Deborah Kohn recently logged onto her healthcare provider's patient portal to view her X-ray reports, she immediately knew something wasn't quite right. She'd undergone one X-ray of her left hand and another of her right hand. The problem?
Both X-ray reports were identi....
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