Author: Lee, Wei-Chen; Veeranki, Sreenivas P; Serag, Hani; Eschbach, Karl; Smith, Kenneth D

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: October 2016

Abstract


Well-designed electronic health records (EHRs) must integrate a variety of accurate information to support efforts to improve quality of care, particularly equity-in-care initiatives. This case study provides insight into the challenges those initiatives may face in colle....

Author: Rizer, Milisa K; Kaufman, Beth; Sieck, Cynthia J; Hefner, Jennifer L; McAlearney, Ann Scheck

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: July 2015

Abstract


Electronic medical record (EMR) implementation efforts face many challenges, including individual and organizational barriers and concerns about loss of productivity during the process. These issues may be particularly complex in large and diverse settings with multiple s....

Author: Unger, Melissa D; Aldrich, Alison M; Hefner, Jennifer L; Rizer, Milisa K

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: October 2014

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Successfully reporting meaningful use of electronic health records to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services can be a challenging process, particularly for healthcare organizations with large numbers of eligible professionals. This case report describes a successf....

Author: Kadlec, Lesley

Source: AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2014

In an effort to begin to answer basic questions related to the state of information governance (IG) in healthcare, AHIMA invited several different types of organizations from across the country to participate in a case study analysis. 


Below are the results of....

Author: Stone, Fabian; Wooley, Barbara; Egan, Jeanne M.; Gallagher, Timothy

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 10, 2007

Overview

Duke University Health System (DUHS), based in Durham, NC, consists of Duke University Hospital, Duke Health Raleigh Hospital, Durham Regional Hospital, Duke University Affiliated Physicians (DUAP), Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC), and the Patient Revenue Management Organization....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA Advantage

Publication Date: February 2006

As director of medical information services, Mary Reeves, RHIA, is driving Vanderbilt University Hospital toward a paperless future. How has your organization progressed toward an e-HIM® environment?

Being in an academic center, we've been very aggressive in developing the electronic....

Author: Chebeleu, Rachel C.; Cottrell, Carlton; Smith, Judy

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Overview

This paper describes the EHR implementation experiences of two different hospital systems in two different areas of the country with two different approaches to going paperless. Health First Inc., a group of three community hospitals in east-central Florida with facilities rangi....

Author: Bailey, Jessica; Rudman, William J.

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: September 2004

Abstract

This article examines the evolving role of HIM professionals in research. In terms of both growth and credibility, it is important that HIM as a profession become more integrally involved in the research process. Specifically, this article examines the expanding role of the....

Author: Amatayakul, Margret

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2003

Shadow charts, independent databases, or “orphan systems,” as they are sometimes called, are among the most controversial and difficult to manage forms of protected health information (PHI) that exist. Yet some providers are having success using HIPAA’s privacy and security stan....

Author: Institute of Medicine. Board on Health Care Services

Source: External web site

Publication Date: July 02, 2003

A study of how the environment in which health care is provided is changing, what those changes mean for future demand, and implications for how academic health centers will carry out their roles in the future to continue to serve the public interest.