Author: Lorence, Daniel P.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 1998

Through the application of some basic statistical techniques, HIM professionals can assist in healthcare benchmarking and management at the organizational level. The author offers an example of how one hospital used data analysis to make decisions that promoted better patient care.....

Author: Bellile, Susan K.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 1998

A battle for control of medical management is now being waged among hospitals, managed care plans, insurers, employers, physician groups, and researchers—a battle in which data is the weapon of choice. Cumulative and comparative healthcare information is being used to eva....

Author: Sweeney, Loralie; Miller, Judith A.; Ludwig-Beymer, Patti

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 1998

Advocate Health Care, a multiple-hospital integrated delivery system in the Chicago, IL, area, recently established its Advocate Adult Asthma Clinical Improvement Team. The team undertook the data planning and analysis needed to start up a complex continuous quality improvement (CQ....

Author: Bisbee, Walter L.; Lillback, Debra Harris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 1998

Good documentation is a cornerstone of data quality. But how can an organization ensure that all disciplines will take responsibility for the comprehensiveness and accuracy of their documentation? The authors describe the steps one facility took to implement a process of record....

Author: Humphreys, Betsy L.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 1998

A 1996-97 study conducted by the National Library of Medicine and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research aimed to determine how well existing vocabularies cover the concepts and terms needed in health information systems. The author describes the hypothesis underlying the s....

Author: Dunham, Larry

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 1998

Under managed care, information is often required on a longitudinal—not an episodic—basis. As a result, we need to rethink our approach to data storage and use. The author identifies ways to look at the demand for data in a managed care environment and shows how process as....

Author: Homan, Cheryl V.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 1998

Healthcare organizations across the country are consolidating and restructuring to retain and secure business in response to the new parameters of managed care reimbursement. In some markets, providers have formed provider-based organizations such as independent practice associations (IPAs),....

Author: Hanken, Mary Alice

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 1998

The federal legislation for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the need in healthcare for security of confidential data have come together to heighten the interest in security standards for electronic health information systems. Th....

Author: AHIMA House of Delegates

Source: Journal of AHIMA | AHIMA HoD Resolution

Publication Date: January 1998

Background Information

The healthcare industry is undergoing extraordinary change. Technology is rapidly changing how health information is managed. The HIM profession, at the crossroads of healthcare and information management, is profoundly affected by all these changes. Consequ....

Author: Murphy, Gretchen

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 1997

Standards mark the progress of and contribute to strategies for achieving computer-based patient records (CPR) in the 1990s. The ASTM E1384 Standard Guide for Content and Structure of the Computer-based Patient Record illustrates this fact. Not only is this standard central to characterizing t....