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Intelligent Health Informatics: The Promise
Author: Eberhardt, John S. III; Stojadinovic, Alexander; Radano, Todd; Epple, John
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: July 2010
Enhancing Patient Care through Data Analysis
Author: Spencer, Gregory
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2010
Healthcare organizations, just like individuals, can suffer from information overload. Increasingly tasked with linking quality data to reimbursement parameters, providers now attempt to capture every piece of possible data.
The problem is that data collection has a price tag. Someti....
Moving Targets: Maximizing the Rewards and Minimizing the Risks of Mobile Devices
Author: Tessier, Claudia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2010
Mobile devices are moving into healthcare with rapid speed, becoming a common health tool for both clinicians and consumers. Provider organizations face a challenge in realizing the opportunities, managing the information, and mitigating the risks.
Just a few short years ago, CIOs we....
HIM, Quality, and Safety: Data Collection and Analysis Skills Offer a Natural Role in Patient Safety
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2010
A penchant for data analysis is what initially drew Virginia Mullen, RHIA, to an HIM career focusing on data quality and ultimately patient safety.
Mullen entered the world of HIM in the early 1980s, when DRGs had just made their debut and the concept of data quality had only begun....
Evaluating Alerts and Triggers: Determining Whether Alerts and Triggers Are Part of the Legal Health Record
Author: Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2010
Electronic health records (EHRs) have received a lot of attention since the Obama administration committed $19 billion in stimulus funds to encourage hospitals and healthcare facilities to digitize patient data and make better use of information technology. The clinical decision support (CDS)....
Model EHR: Status and Next Steps for an International Standard on EHR System Requirements
Author: Mon, Donald T.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2010
Six years in the making, the HL7 EHR System Functional Model is now a worldwide standard.
Work on the next version’s wish list is already under way.
In November 2009 the International Organization for Standardization and Health Level Seven International (HL7....
How to Conduct an Information Security Risk Analysis
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Source: AHIMA Today
Publication Date: October 07, 2009
Consider the following scenario. During a conversation with your neighbor, you mention that your pediatrician has not yet received the operative report from your daughter’s appendectomy almost three weeks ago. Your neighbor, who resigned as a medical transcriptionist from the local hospital a m....
Information Security Risk Analysis for Health Information Managers
Author: Sheldon-Dean, Jim
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 05, 2009
Background
The HIPAA1 Security Rule2 and other information security regulations require that you perform a risk analysis of protected health information in order to properly focus information security efforts and make sound plans for managing the risks that do exist. Increased threats to....
Translational Bioinformatics and Healthcare Informatics: Computational and Ethical Challenges
Author: Sethi, Prerna; Theodos, Kimberly
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: September 2009
Research and Policy Model for Health Informatics and Information Management
Author: Layman, Elizabeth J.
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: August 2009
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