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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....
UK's Agenda for Managing Health Information: First Steps to Improving Data Quality
Author: Huston, Janis L.; Brox, Georg A.
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction to the Information for Health NHS Strategy Document
The National Health Service (NHS) of the United Kingdom (UK) published its Information for Health agenda in 1998 to address such issues as information management, information technology (IT), security, and data quality. In t....
Audit of Automated Code Assignment in Israeli Hospital's Computerized Medical Information Systems
Author: Gill, Rhonda; Hecht, Rivka
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
How accurate and complete is the coded diagnostic (and procedure) data collected on patients who are discharged from Israeli government-owned general hospitals that have implemented automated code assignment? Can the individual facilities and the Israel Ministry of Health rely on....
Seizing the Moment to Improve the Quality of Health Information Management
Author: Goshen, Naomi; Nachmani, Frances ; Sasson, Nadine ; Itzchak, Tzipi ; Sayfan, J; Kopelman, D; Kolton, L; Vigder, L; Almog, D; Tiosano, T
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
The need for accurate and complete records pertaining to operative procedures and diagnoses in surgery wards is almost self-evident. It is so because human life issues are at stake and erroneous and incomplete documentation may harm follow-up treatment as well as research da....
"Chutes and Ladders" of the Revenue Cycle: Strategies to Understand Data and Coding Quality Issues That Impact Your Ability to Successfully Play the Revenue Cycle Game
Author: Bauman, Carrie M.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
Since 1991, I have made a career in health information management. I entered the profession in the roles of assistant director and director of medical records in the acute care setting. After installing a Windows-based chart tracking system and a document imaging system, I f....
Impact of SARS on the Chinese Health Information System
Author: Aimin, Liu
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Abstract
Since the first case of SARS was found in Guangdong province of China in 2003, it was soon found in over 30 countries. Beijing was one of the most severely affected cities. In fighting SARS, we have gained a lot of experience. At the beginning, SARS was not recognized as being s....
Re-abstraction Studies to Assess Data Quality for Use in the Development of a Grouping Methodology
Author: Mitchell, Sandra; Bartoli, Holly
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the data quality re-abstraction studies that have been conducted in Canada. These studies provide a baseline of reliability for clinical administrative data submitted to the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD). Canada began a s....
Managing DNFB: It's More Than Just Coding
Author: Staub, Mary; Orenstein, Anita; Gillett, Del Rae
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
All healthcare facilities throughout the country struggle in today's competitive market place to keep cash flow at an appropriate and acceptable level. There are many facilities that struggle to make pay roll on a bi-weekly basis. Although Intermountain Healthcare (IHC) has....
Critical State of Coding, Classification, and Terminologies in the UK: a Clinician's Perspective
Author: Brox, Georg A.; Huston, Janis L.
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
An Historical Review
ICD-10
The need to classify diseases and the causes of death dates back to the 17th century in the United Kingdom (UK), when John Graunt first published his weekly London Bills of Mortality in 1629. In 1769, William Cullen of Edinburgh, Scotland, then deve....
Screening for Colorectal Cancer
Author: Petersen, Darley
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Background
Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains the second most common cause of cancer death in Western Europe and North America.
Screening for CRC has not worldwide popularity in spite of proven survival benefit in average risk persons. Incidence and mortality, both are worrying in E....
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