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Introduction to Benchmarking Health Assessment and Outcomes through Applied Statistics
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.....
Comparative Data--Its Impact and Opportunities
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 researchersa battle in which data is the weapon of choice. Cumulative and comparative healthcare information is being used to eva....
Measurement Issues for an Adult Asthma Clinical Improvement Initiative
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....
Designing the Integrated Multidisciplinary Record Review
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....
Do Existing Controlled Vocabularies Contain Terminology Needed for Patient Records?
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....
Managing Care, Managing Change, Managing Information
Author: Dunham, Larry
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 1998
Under managed care, information is often required on a longitudinalnot an episodicbasis. 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....
Choosing a Managed Care Information System -- What You Need to Know
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),....
New Standards Focus on Information Security
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....
Improving the Quality of Healthcare Data (Resolution)
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....
Making Standards Work for You: Content Vocabulary for Computer-based Patient Records
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....
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