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Developing a Coding Quality Improvement Program
Author: Endicott, Melanie
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: March 2012
The increased need for accurate coded data for healthcare delivery, reimbursement, compliance, and regulatory accountability has brought about a corresponding need for data quality monitoring and regular evaluation programs. Maintaining data quality is an ongoing effort that affects many aspec....
Developing a Coding Compliance Policy Document (2010 update)
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2010
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Developing a Coding Compliance Policy Document (2001)
Author: AHIMA Coding Team
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2001
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Data Warehousing: Myths, Pitfalls, and the Secret Weapon
Author: Moyer, Rich
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2003
Is your organization using its data warehouse to its fullest potential? The author provides some pitfalls to avoid and some tips that may help improve care and use resources more efficiently.
Most healthcare organizations have invested in building a data warehouse. But once the warehouse....
Data Quality versus Clinical Quality: How Documentation, Coding and POA Impact Quality Reporting
Author: Geissler, Kristen
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: September 26, 2010
Introduction
As national and local payers look for better ways to not only measure and stratify healthcare quality, but also base healthcare provider reimbursement on these quality data, methodologies utilizing coding and claims data are being developed and used with more frequ....
Data Quality Management: Every Health Information Manager's Business
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 1998
This issue of the Journal of AHIMA does more than feature articles of timely importance to HIM practice. It actually contributes to the advancement of the field by presenting a model for an important dimension of HIM practice: data quality management. The practice brief in this issue (....
Data Quality Audit: Understanding Coding Variations
Author: Whittome, Helen; Crook, Gail
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
The Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA) and the Ontario Health Information Management Association (OHIMA), with technical support from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), conducted a pilot data quality audit (the Audit) of Ontario acu....
Data Quality (1996) - Retired
Author: AHIMA Coding Policy and Strategy Committee
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: February 1996
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
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....
Constructing a Coding Compliance Plan
Author: Hanna, Joette
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2002
The government has turned its attention to coding compliance. Do you have an effective program in place? Use the steps in this article to build a coding compliance program that protects your organization.
Coding compliance has become an integral part of every HIM department....
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