Author: Donham, Greg W.; Mallia, Tony

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2006

An ambitious project offers lessons for the NHIN and illustrates core HIM issues in data exchange.
In response to the reported illnesses of Gulf War veterans, the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) undertook an initiative to create comprehensive, lifelong....

Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2015

Do you analyze case mix? Have you been asked to run a report on patients seen in the emergency department with dog bites? Do you report monthly physician query trends? Have you ever been asked to “pull that information out of the EHR?” Do you know that revenue code 361 often re....

Author: Hedges, Ron

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: September 20, 2016

In my last post of 2015 I tried to predict what types of challenges health information management (HIM) professionals might have to deal with in 2016 and beyond. One prediction involved technological innovation, as I surmised that we could “expect to see more and more ‘apps’ being off....

Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on Assessing and Improving Healthcare Data Quality in the EHR

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2007

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2013

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: AHIMA Work Group

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2015

Editor’s Note: This Practice Brief supersedes the March 2007 [and March 2013] Practice Brief “Assessing and Improving EHR Data Quality.”


The United States-based Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported in 1999 that “at least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many a....

Author: Schleis, Kathy

Source: AHIMA web extra

Publication Date: March 02, 2007

Holy Family Memorial Medical Center (HFM), a hospital within a healthcare network, has a hybrid record-part paper, part electronic. In l989, HFM initiated the computerization of the diagnostic areas of the hospital such as the lab and dictated reports. Through the years, system implementation h....

Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on Assessing and Improving Healthcare Data Quality in the EHR

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2007

Improving data quality in an electronic healthcare environment requires a greater focus on standardized documentation procedures. With an EHR, the need to evaluate and improve healthcare data quality through concurrent assessment, data collection monitoring, and ongoing process improvement requ....

Author: Garvin, Jennifer Hornung

Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Introduction

Patients across the globe are using traditional and Western (allopathic) medicine to improve health. At the same time, the records of patients are being modified from paper-based documentation to an electronic format. This technical paper places some of the major medical tra....

Author: Levinson, Curtis K.S.

Source: In Confidence (newsletter)

Publication Date: May 02, 2002

Chain of trust agreements (CTAs) have two separate components: law and technology. Though the legal and technical components function together, each requires individual subject matter expertise to correctly craft an effective CTA.
CTAs are of paramount importance to the healthcare commu....