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Making HIPAA Work for Consumers: Teaching How and Why to Access Health Records
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2017
The old proverb “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime” rings true for consumers and the release of their health information. With laws like HIPAA and the advent of patient portals, it has never been easier for consu....
Improved Patient Engagement for LGBT Populations: Addressing Factors Related to Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity for Effective Health Information Management
Author: AHIMA Work Group
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2017
One of the Healthy People 2020 objectives from the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is to improve the health, safety, and well-being of individuals in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population.1 This population faces health disparities with barriers to healt....
Patient Engagement, Patient Portals, and Information Governance
Author: Downing, Kathy
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: December 15, 2016
Involving patients in the management of their health (patient engagement) encourages greater patient participation in care. It also increases the integrity of the health information stored by our health systems—patients will be the first to tell you if the information is incorrect. P....
Health Records All Access Pass
Author: Payne, Thomas H.; Beahan, Sally; Fellner, Jane; Martin, Dan; Elmore, Joann G
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2016
Patient Portals that allow viewing of clinical notes and hospital discharge summaries: the University of Washington OpenNotes implementation experience
Many healthcare organizations are striving to improve patient engagement by facilitating patient access to clin....
Making the Call for Patient Experience: Using Health IT to Address Gaps in Patient Data-Sharing, Communication, and Interoperability
Author: Labow, Kim
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2016
Interoperability and integration within the health IT landscape remain high priorities for providers, patients, and technology firms. Interoperability in health IT holds the promise of more satisfied patients, providers, and health information management (HIM) professionals. But approachi....
Release or Not? Patients’ Rights to Health Records Becoming Increasingly Complex
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2016
It is a dark and stormy night at a mid-sized regional trauma center when an EMS team brings in a 30-year-old man who is suffering from a prescription narcotics overdose. The patient is conscious but disoriented when he arrives on a gurney. When he wakes up, his loved ones, dutifully at his....
Patient Portal Toolkit
Author: AHIMA Work Group
Source: AHIMA toolkit
Publication Date: March 2016
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide guidance on the issues and challenges that should be considered when
implementing a patient portal, such as the types of policies and procedures that will need to be put into place, workforce
and consumer education and training, and the legal requirements and considerations that must be accounted for
a successful portal implementation. Sample forms, portal use agreement, and patient portal FAQs are also included.
How and Why to Become an OpenNotes Organization [Sponsored Article]
Author: Berkeley Research Group
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: March 2016
This article is published in sponsorship with Berkeley Research Group (BRG).
As a recent initiative, a growing number of healthcare organizations are turning to OpenNotes as a strategy for addressing patient engagement shortcomings in the US healthcare system. Originally pion....
Access to Health Information: It Takes a Village
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: December 2015
Obtaining access to one’s written or electronic medical records in a timely manner is one of the guarantees listed in AHIMA’s “Consumer Health Information Bill of Rights.” Yet, for one consumer, Amanda Michelle Jones, MS, AM, being on a first-name basis with medical records depa....
How to Make Healthcare More Consumer-Centric
Author: Tremlett, Janie
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 2015
The conversation in healthcare is shifting from “patient engagement” to “consumerism.” This changing lingo indicates a new mental model—a new approach to thinking about patients as consumers and to delivering a healthcare experience as consumer-centric, just like many other industries. Dra....
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