Author: Parmanto, Bambang; Scotch, Michael; Ahmad, Sjarif

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: September 2005

Abstract


Many healthcare processes involve a series of patient visits or a series of outcomes. The modeling of outcomes associated with these types of healthcare processes is different from and not as well understood as the modeling of standard industry environments. For this re....

Author: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: August 18, 2005

Author: Price, Kurt; Farley, Dean

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2005

As they take on greater responsibility helping manage their facilities’ revenue cycles, HIM professionals benefit from incorporating coding, compliance, and reimbursement performance data into their improvement efforts.
Accurate and complete coding ensures that a hospital receives....

Author: Forgey, Danita; Vickrey, Jennifer

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2005

HIM, meet informatics. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Technology is introducing HIM to the science of informatics. It's a relationship with a promising future. Informatics concerns the development of new uses for technology and assesses technology's impact....

Author: Rollins, Gina

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2005

As evidence-based medicine systems proliferate, organizations are grappling with the question of when—or whether—to document them in the legal record. So far, the prompts are many, but the answers are few.
A physician enters a medication order in a computerized physician orde....

Author: AHIMA Professional Practice Team

Source: AHIMA Q and A

Publication Date: January 02, 2005

Q: What is medical informatics, and is there a connection between it and health information management?
A: Medical informatics is “the collection, classification, storage, retrieval and dissemination of recorded knowledge.”1 It features an “emphasis on technology as an integr....

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....

Author: Rosenbaum, Arnold S.; Nelson, Gina A.

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson released the Final Regulations for Security Standards in final form in February 2003. The security standards were developed to help safeguard confidential health information, which is being processed increasingly by computers.

The mandates require covered ent....

Author: Rigby, Michael

Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Introduction

In the drive to modernise information management and information handling in the health sector, focus is nearly always placed on the technologies and on the conceptual issues such as coding and language. However, without competent and thus confident users, this important inv....

Author: Welfeld, Joseph A.

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

by Joseph A. Welfeld, FACHE
Introduction

Data mining often brings to mind complex and comprehensive software applications that take information from various data sources and attempt to extract valuable information. When operational executives hear the term, their eyes often glaze o....