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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....
Accountable Care and Data Analytics Emerging in Healthcare
Author: White, Susan E; Taylor, Lisa Brooks
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2012
Value-based purchasing of healthcare is transforming the US healthcare delivery system and payment methodologies. Spurred by commercial pay-for-performance initiatives and the roll out of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), accountable....
Accounting and Tracking Disclosures of Protected Health Information (2001)
Author: Dougherty, Michelle
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2001
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Accounting of Disclosures: ARRA’s Impact
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 05, 2009
The accounting of disclosures requirement is one of the most difficult HIPAA privacy rule compliance issues to implement. Following the August 2002 modifications to the privacy rule requirements, the accounting for disclosures requirement has stood out as the HIPAA requirement demanding the big....
Achieving Consent and Maintaining Data Quality in an Era of Health Information Exchange at the Bronx RHIO
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Shatzkin, Nance L
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 05, 2009
In the summer of 2005, interest in data sharing was growing around the country and some working health information exchange (HIE) models were in place, but none on the east coast. In the Bronx, the increase of capitated payment models and risk-based agreements between large healthcare pr....
Achieving Data Quality: How Data from a Pediatric Health Information System Earns the Trust of Its Users
Author: Fletcher, Donna M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2004
One such program exists at the Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA), a business alliance of 41 of the largest not-for-profit children’s hospitals and healthcare systems in the US and Canada. The alliance represents more than 20,000 physicians, 98,000 employees, and $11 billion in r....
Achieving Electronic Connectivity in Healthcare: a Preliminary Roadmap from the Nation's Public and Private-Sector Healthcare Leaders
Author: Connecting for Health
Source: External - used with permission
Publication Date: July 14, 2004
This report calls for all stakeholders from across the healthcare industry to work together to build a health information infrastructure that would improve patient care, reduce medical error and lower costs while protecting patient privacy.
Achieving Health Information Systems Interoperability
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2015
With the growing adoption of health information technology (HIT), interoperability—or the sharing of data between systems—has become a topic that everybody in healthcare is talking about. Interoperability impacts every stakeholder in healthcare with each individual party involv....
Achieving Meaningful Use: Health IT Standards Committee Reviews Standards Needed to Achieve Meaningful Use
Author: Viola, Allison F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2010
This month the Journal introduces a new column on practical applications and emerging issues related to data standards.
The need for standards has never been more pervasive as the healthcare industry moves toward increased health IT adoption.
Provisio....
Adapting Enterprise Workflow for ICD-10-CM/PCS
Author: Clark, Jill S
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2013
During her speech at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said the healthcare industry should proceed full steam ahead on preparing to implement ICD-10-CM/PCS. The message conveyed is that CMS is 100 p....
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