Author: Busch, Rebecca S.

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Organized crime is defined by The Oxford English Dictionary as: "of or pertaining to a coordinated criminal organization directing operations on a large or widespread scale."1 The term was first used and noted in a book called Organized Crime in Chicago , published by the Illinois Association....

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: Middleton, Anne; Durham, Bob

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Introduction

Well-ordered review and analysis of financial data often improves operational and clinical performance in healthcare by highlighting ideal development opportunities. Variations in billing data collection, accuracy, and timeliness directly impact development opportunity ident....

Author: Panico, Mary; Hall, Debra; Berman, Regina; Siegel, Barbara

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Introduction

In the fourth quarter of 2002, regulatory agencies began to align their initiatives driven by the National Quality Forum (NQF) evidenced-based measures, which drove the CMS 7 th Scope of Work. Project designs were to address morbidity and mortality of high-risk and high-vari....

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: Kesh, Someswar; Raghupathi, Wullianallur

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: October 2004

Abstract


This article provides an overview of the field of bioinformatics and its implications for the various participants. Next-generation issues facing developers (programmers), users (molecular biologists), and the general public (patients) who would benefit from the potent....

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Source: External web site

Publication Date: July 19, 2004

Author: Amatayakul, Margret

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2004

Many covered entities are just now starting to approach the compliance aspects of the HIPAA security rule. Why discuss “compliance aspects” and not standards or controls, as we did when preparing for the privacy rule? Privacy and security are long-standing concepts to healthcare,....

Author: Dougherty, Michelle

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2004

In January 2004 the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new initiative to improve the accuracy and reliability of Minimum Data Set (MDS) data in long-term care. The Data Assessment and Verification program (DAVE) is a collaborative effort between multiple CMS program ar....

Author: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS); Consolidated Health Info Initiative

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: January 29, 2004