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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....
Nonsensical Data Input Produces Undesired Output for Data Analysis
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2014
There is a growing hunger in healthcare today for attaining meaningful data. It is no longer an option to sift through large amounts of data stored in a variety of systems, spending valuable man hours to produce information that can be utilized to make good business decisions. Allowing fo....
Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: Why HIM, IT Are Becoming Fast Friends
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2003
Spending a lot of time with the IT department lately? As HIM processes become automated and demand increasingly sophisticated technology, HIM professionals are making IT professionals their closest allies.
Whether youre acquiring an electronic master patient index, implementing a t....
Owning the EHR and Information Governance at Your Facility
Author: Head, Erin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2015
For many decades, health information management (HIM) departments have been the hub for information collected within healthcare organizations. HIM has frequently been referred to as the “medical records department” due to the perceived idea that the department’s main tasks are receiving a....
Paging Dr. Watson: IBM’s Watson Supercomputer Now Being Used in Healthcare
Author: Lee, Howard
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2014
When IBM announced that they were developing a supercomputing system called “Watson,” many fans of literary icon Sherlock Holmes thought of the London-based detective’s trusted friend Dr. John Watson—and not the computer’s actual namesake, IBM founder Thomas Watson. But the mistake isn’t....
Perceived Knowledge of Health Informatics Competencies by Health Information Management Professionals
Author: Palkie, Brooke
Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management
Publication Date: December 2013
Abstract
The 2009 enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has placed unprecedented emphasis on utilizing technology to improve the quality of care and to decrease healthcare costs. To meet these goals, the healthcare field will....
Personal Genomic Information Management and Personalized Medicine: Challenges, Current Solutions, and Roles of HIM Professionals
Author: Alzu'bi, Amal; Zhou, Leming; Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: April 2014
Abstract
In recent years, the term personalized medicine has received more and more attention in the field of healthcare. The increasing use of this term is closely related to the astonishing advancement in DNA sequencing technologies and other high-throughput biotechnologies. A l....
PHI Audits: the Global Use of Protected Health Information in Organized Crime. Is Your Organization Ready?
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....
Power of Data Analytics is Within Reach
Author: Birnbaum, Cassi L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
Data are the lifeblood of our healthcare ecosystem, with the potential of enabling organizations to improve care, manage chronically ill patients, lower costs, achieve compliance, support research, increase patient safety, and meet operational and strategic initiatives. Although health inf....
Practical Implications of Informatics
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: July 2014
For decades, most consumers relied on one physician for all of their healthcare needs—their primary care physician—and that one physician knew the patient’s entire health history and documented it in one place. This paradigm is starting to change, says Anupam Goel, MD, MBA, an in....
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