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Internal Audit Model for Information Security
Author: Mead, Kevin
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: July 02, 2000
Internal auditors are found within many organizations, and have traditionally concerned themselves with the protection of assets. In the past, this manifested itself by the placing of asset tags on furniture and equipment and verifying the presence of the asset each year. Recently, however, i....
Intelligent Health Informatics: The Promise
Author: Eberhardt, John S. III; Stojadinovic, Alexander; Radano, Todd; Epple, John
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: July 2010
Integrating Core Measures with Your Quality Management Process
Author: Hyde, Linda A.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: September 23, 2002
In Pursuit of Analytics: Best Practices for Healthcare Data Integration
Author: Plummer, Eric
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
One of the fundamental challenges associated with the pursuit of Healthcare Analytics, is the diverse number of applications and source information systems that must be accessed. These systems (EHR/EMR/PM/LAB/RAD/...) were designed to capture all of the relevant information abo....
Information Security Risk Analysis for Health Information Managers
Author: Sheldon-Dean, Jim
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 05, 2009
Background
The HIPAA1 Security Rule2 and other information security regulations require that you perform a risk analysis of protected health information in order to properly focus information security efforts and make sound plans for managing the risks that do exist. Increased threats to....
Information Infrastructure Promises Better Healthcare, Lower Costs
Author: Marchibroda, Janet; Gerber, Ticia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2003
What forces have propelled the need for a national health information infrastructure (NHII) into the spotlight? In the article, take a closer look at the origins of the NHII, the benefits it will yield, and the initiatives providing the strongest support.
The healthcare system in the US h....
Information Governance Provides the Framework for Data Governance
Author: Washington, Lydia
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: November 12, 2015
Data governance is a hot topic these days, as healthcare organizations begin to realize that the analytics capabilities that are necessary for new care and payment models are not feasible without some sort of unified and consistent enterprise approach to data management. Building an effect....
Informatics in Managed Care: HIM Adds Value to Data
Author: Stratton, Scott D.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2001
The third installment of the Journal of AHIMA’s special series on managed care focuses on informatics-methods that add value to data, turning it into useful information. How do informatics and managed care fit together, and what is HIM’s role in this picture?
The HIM professional’s knowl....
Informatics: How an Emerging Field of Study Benefits HIM
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....
Informatics Harnesses Healthcare’s Wild, Rich Data
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2014
Healthcare has become a data-rich field, and any data rich environment requires the ability to analyze large, complex data sets. The field of informatics provides tools to integrate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom when processing data. Good informatics includes many functions, and....
Informatics Education for HIM Professionals in the Era of Interoperable Standards-Based HIEs
Author: Orlova, Anna; Lehmann, Harold
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2015
Electronic sharing of health information, both within and between organizational boundaries, requires the adoption of interoperable health information technology (HIT) solutions such as electronic health record (EHR) systems, laboratory information management systems (LIMS), radiology and....
Informatics and HIM: Enabling Semantic Interoperability and the Learning Health System
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2015
Medical informatics is a field formalized in the 1990s with the rise of the adoption of information technology in healthcare including electronic health records systems (EHRs), laboratory information management systems (LIMS), radiology systems, and other health information technology (HIT....
Informatics Ahead: HIM Must Rise to the Challenge of Evolving Industry Demands
Author: Kennedy, Angela
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2014
Health informatics is present in every corner of the healthcare industry. A multidisciplinary approach to decision making, it’s no longer just for the research and public health arena. The science and engagement of the health informatics process is one that’s critical to the success of he....
Industry Awaits Phase 2 of HIPAA Audit Program
Author: Asmonga, Donald D.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2015
The wait for the second round of mandated privacy and security audits from the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) continues. OCR is currently working through final details for the revised audit plan as they await finalization of new technolog....
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....
Improving Patient Care Through Data Quality Management of Regulatory Reporting of Outcome Measures
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....
How to Conduct an Information Security Risk Analysis
Author:
Source: AHIMA Today
Publication Date: October 07, 2009
Consider the following scenario. During a conversation with your neighbor, you mention that your pediatrician has not yet received the operative report from your daughter’s appendectomy almost three weeks ago. Your neighbor, who resigned as a medical transcriptionist from the local hospital a m....
How to Break Into Analytics and Informatics
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Shawn Wells, RHIT, CHDA, manager of HIM data integrity at the University of Utah Healthcare, put himself on the health information management (HIM) career trajectory that HIM educators dream of using as an example.
Wells, who was also the first person in the state of Utah....
How Does Your Coding Measure Up?: Analyzing Performance Data Gives HIM a Boost in Managing Revenue
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....
HIPAA Security Redux: A Re-evaluation Process and Recommended Areas to Review
Author: Adler, M. Peter
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2007
Remember the mad scramble to create a compliance plan before the HIPAA security rule deadline? It’s time to revisit that plan.
Publication of the HIPAA security rule created a flurry of discussions, debate, and activity as healthcare professionals grappled wi....
HIPAA Requirements for Secure Record Storage and Data Transfer
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....
HIM's Role in Managing Big Data: Turning Data Collected by an EHR into Information
Author: Bonney, Steven
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2013
For years, US healthcare facilities' electronic health record (EHR) systems have been collecting and storing exabytes of patient information. A tremendous amount of structured data is being created and given to HIM professionals, and a great deal of action is expected from them.
....
HIM's Role in Health Data Analysis
Author: Kadlec, Lesley
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2016
In today’s healthcare environment, data abounds. From the time of admission through the patient care episode, discharge, and aftercare, the volume of clinical data in healthcare continues to grow and expand. Regardless of whether the data results from a patient office visit, the lab,....
HIM’s Role in Disease Tracking, Data Mining, and Patient Monitoring
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: November 2014
In the current US healthcare climate, panic and paranoia prevail as deadly diseases like Ebola and tuberculosis command public attention and the World Health (WHO) organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) work to provide relevant guidance. A....
HIM’s Expanding Role in Clinical Data Analysis and Mapping
Author: Cook, Jane
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
As the healthcare community works to meet the requirements of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “meaningful use” EHR incentive program and other initiatives, new opportunities are forming for the health information management (HIM) professional. Roles in both clinical data....
HIM, Quality, and Safety: Data Collection and Analysis Skills Offer a Natural Role in Patient Safety
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2010
A penchant for data analysis is what initially drew Virginia Mullen, RHIA, to an HIM career focusing on data quality and ultimately patient safety.
Mullen entered the world of HIM in the early 1980s, when DRGs had just made their debut and the concept of data quality had only begun....
HIM in Medical Informatics Land, or HIM Goes to Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Author: Jacobs, Ellen B.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 21, 2005
Overview
The goal of this presentation is to inform HIM professionals about an opportunity to learn medical informatics in a condensed one-week course and the need to educate key players in medical informatics about the HIM profession.
Background
Almost every journal articl....
HIM Functions in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Appendix C: HIM’s Role in Data Capture, Validation, and Maintenance
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: August 2011
A critical component of AHIMA's draft HIM Core Model, a robust description of the functions and opportunities open to current and future HIM professionals, is capture and maintenance of health data.1 HIM professionals are encouraged to assume a leadership role in outlining how data are captured....
HIM Connections in the Kaleidoscope of Informatics
Author: Houser, Shannon H.; Mikaelian, Raymound; Payton, Evita
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2016
The emergence of health informatics within health information management (HIM) has changed the ways of HIM practice and operations. This change has also created various opportunities for HIM professionals to further develop their careers and gain additional education and workforce training....
HIM as the Middleman to Informatics and Data Analytics
Author: Kadlec, Lesley; Kirby, Annessa
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: October 06, 2016
We hear so much about the amount of data available in healthcare today. But we are just beginning to understand the importance of analyzing that data to make decisions. As buzzwords like “information governance” and “data analytics” are becoming more mainstream, the analysis of data i....
Health Intelligence Revolution Coming to Long-Term and Post-Acute Care
Author: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Team
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2014
Health information and health intelligence are beginning to have an impact on the daily lives and health of everyone. Technology-enabled, person-centered care is taking hold and transforming the healthcare delivery system, enabling accountability for the patient and challenging providers....
Health Information Technology Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan
Author: U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Source: External healthcare industry report | U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for HIT
Publication Date: July 2013
This report from ONC, building on the 2011 IOM report, Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, addresses the role of health IT within HHS’s commitment to patient safety.
Health Information Management Efficiency Implications for Finance
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....
Health Information Management and Informatics Core Competencies for Individuals Working with Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
Author: AHIMA and AMIA Joint Workforce Task Force
Source: AHIMA report
Publication Date: October 20, 2008
Health Information Exchange Readiness for Demonstrating Return on Investment and Quality of Care
Author: Khurshid, Anjum; Diana, Mark L; Jain, Rahul
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: 2015
Abstract
Objective—To study the extent to which community health information exchanges (HIEs) deliver and measure return on investment (ROI) and improvements in the quality of care.
Materials and Methods—We surveyed operational HIEs for their characterist....
Health Informatics Standards: A User's Guide
Author: Brandt, Mary D.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2000
From code sets to data sets to developing organizations, how much do you really know about technical standards? This article provides a handy reference guide.
The vision is clear: a longitudinal, or lifetime, health record for each person that is computer-based, secure, readily ac....
Health Informatics Standards and Information Transfer: Exploring the HIM Role
Author: Murphy, Gretchen; Brandt, Mary D.
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2001
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Health Informatics 2010: Master's Degree
Author: Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management (CAHIIM)
Source: CAHIIM
Publication Date: January 02, 2012
Health Data Analysis Toolkit
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA toolkit
Publication Date: September 2014
The content in this toolkit has been updated. More recent information is available here.
Health Data Analysis Toolkit
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA toolkit
Publication Date: January 2011
The content in this toolkit has been updated. More recent information is available here.
Healthcare's Data Revolution: How Data is Changing the Industry and Reshaping HIM's Roles
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2013
The hunger for analyzed healthcare data to improve delivered care and to better meet quality measures is spurring a revolution in healthcare. Providers are demanding better health IT systems that allow HIM and data analytics professionals to sift through large amounts of data and turn it i....
Healthcare Moving Toward an 'Information Ecosystem'
Author: Kowalski, Christine
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2015
Just as the world is held together and shaped by a delicate and intricate global ecosystem, the US healthcare system’s community of connected components, surviving and thriving when working together toward common goals, represents its own sort of ecosystem. As healthcare moves toward an i....
Healthcare Database Management for Health Informatics and Information Management Students: Challenges and Instruction Strategies—Part 1
Author: Hylock, Ray; Harris, Susie T.
Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management
Publication Date: January 2016
Abstract
Enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 forever altered the data management landscape in healthcare. The volume, breadth, depth, and pace at which health i....
Guidance on Risk Analysis Requirements under the HIPAA Security Rule
Author: U.S. Office for Civil Rights
Source: Government (U.S.) | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Publication Date: July 15, 2010
Globalization of Medical Transcription Industry Requires Proper Risk Analysis
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA press release
Publication Date: October 30, 2003
AHIMA compiles list of top ten outsourcing questions for healthcare organizations
CHICAGO, October 30-US Healthcare organizations and their domestic transcription vendors are increasingly employing an international labor pool to meet the demand for transcription workloads. This gro....
Getting Your Feet Wet with Open-Source Statistical Languages
Author: Taylor, Nathan Patrick
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: January 25, 2016
If you are new to healthcare analytics, it can be quite expensive to get up and running with a statistical application. Between the cost of the software itself and the instructional courses—not to mention your investment of time—just getting started could run several thousand dollars. Than....
Generating Internal Report Cards: A Kaleidoscopic Approach
Author: Sammons, Joann
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2001
Introduction
Defining clinical quality should be as easy as two simple charters―to know our quality and then work to improve it. To say this is oversimplified is an understatement. The friction between regulatory demands, payer constraints, increasing costs of healthc....
Gaps in the Existing Public Health Informatics Training Programs: A Challenge to the Development of a Skilled Global Workforce
Author: Joshi, Ashish; Perin, Douglas Marcel
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: October 2012
Abstract
The objective of this study was to explore public health informatics (PHI) training programs that currently exist to meet the growing demand for a trained global workforce. We used several search engines, scientific databases, and the websites of informatics organizations....
Framework for Designing a Healthcare Outcome Data Warehouse
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....
Foreward: Health Informatics Research Methods: Principles and Practice
Author: Brodnik, Melanie S.; Layman, Elizabeth J.; Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: January 2012
Perspectives in Health Information Management has an exclusive excerpt of the book, Health Informatics Research Methods: Principles and Practice by Elizabeth J. Layman, PhD, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA; and Valerie J. Watzlaf, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA. The text focuses on the practical applications of....
Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) Health IT Report: Proposed Strategy and Recommendations for a Risk-Based Framework
Author: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: June 2014
This report outlines a proposed strategy
and recommendations on an appropriate, risk-based
regulatory framework pertaining to health information
technology, including mobile medical applications, that
promotes innovation, protects patient safety, and avoids
regulatory duplication.
Florida Cancer Data System Turns Data Into Information
Author: Zernich, Gordon
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2001
The enactment of the Cancer Registries Amendment Act in 1992 and the passage of similar state laws require healthcare facilities and state and national registries to gather information on certain diseases from patient medical records. The information is also used to identify geographic "ho....
Exploring HIPAA's Security Domains: Access Control Systems
Author: Ruano, Michael
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: April 02, 2003
Part two in a 10-part series.
This article is the second of a 10-part series that introduces the domains of information security and relates them to federal HIPAA regulations. This second domain of access control systems covers topics that describe the reasoning, risk anal....
Expertise and Empowerment: the Essential Prerequisites to Effectiveness in Health Information
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....
Examining the Computation of the Chi-square Statistical Test
Author: Overgaard, Shauna M
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: October 2015
Outcome measures such as patient satisfaction, rates of readmission, and procedural complications play heavily into the penalization of an organization’s financial reimbursement.
It is important to evaluate data on multiple levels in order to consider all opportunities for in....
Evolving Practice of Health Informatics
Author: Birnbaum, Cassi L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2015
WHEN I DECIDED to pursue my graduate education in health information management (HIM) and informatics seven years ago, adoption rates for advanced electronic health record (EHR) systems were evolving, data was siloed, and interoperability was far from reality. Organizations were up to the....
Evaluating Distance Learning in Health Informatics Education
Author: Russell, Barbara L.; Barefield, Amanda; Turnbull, Diane; Leibach, Elizabeth; Pretlow, Lester
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: April 2008
Evaluating Alerts and Triggers: Determining Whether Alerts and Triggers Are Part of the Legal Health Record
Author: Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2010
Electronic health records (EHRs) have received a lot of attention since the Obama administration committed $19 billion in stimulus funds to encourage hospitals and healthcare facilities to digitize patient data and make better use of information technology. The clinical decision support (CDS)....
Enhancing Patient Care through Data Analysis
Author: Spencer, Gregory
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2010
Healthcare organizations, just like individuals, can suffer from information overload. Increasingly tasked with linking quality data to reimbursement parameters, providers now attempt to capture every piece of possible data.
The problem is that data collection has a price tag. Someti....
EMPI Links Hospitals to Transform Data Exchange and Research in 17-County North Texas Region
Author: Mendoza, Theresa; Kotyk, Steve
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
Controlling readmission rates for hospitalization is an important focus for patients and hospitals. Many organizations can track patients readmitted within their own facilities, but are unaware and unable to analyze patients who have gone to a hospital outside of their organiz....
Electronic Signatures (1996) - Retired
Author: Brandt, Mary D.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: March 1996
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Earning HIM Cred: the CHDA Credential
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: April 2015
As health information management (HIM) professionals find themselves constantly inundated with more data, they will need to update their skills to stay on top of it. And one of the best ways to do just that is by earning AHIMA’s Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA) credential.
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....
Documentation and Coding in a Risk-based Environment: Obstacles to Be Aware Of
Author: Easterling, Sharon
Source: CodeWrite | AHIMA newsletter article
Publication Date: September 2015
With the implementation of the Value-Based Purchasing Model (VBP) and, more recently, statements in the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) fix, it remains clear that healthcare is going through a time of change. We must recognize risk in not only patient health management and outcomes, bu....
Digital Family History Data Mining with Neural Networks: A Pilot Study
Author: Hoyt, Robert; Linnville, Steven; Thaler, Stephen; Moore, Jeffrey
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: January 2016
Abstract
Following the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009, electronic health records were widely adopted by eligible physicians and hospitals in the United States. Stage 2 meaningful use menu objectives include a digi....
Dial T for Training: Work Force and the EHR
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA Advantage
Publication Date: June 2006
What’s that sound? It could be your cell phone ringing…but it’s really a reminder to update your technology skills. Here’s the connection: Your cell phone may have the latest bells and whistles, but do you know how to use them? Likewise, are you a proficient user of the....
Developing an Effective Compliance Audit Process. Appendix C: Tracking and Analysis of Auditing Data
Author: Scichilone, Rita A
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2001
Sample format for tracking and analysis of auditing data-pictures work best!
Aggregate Data Findings from MEDPAR Database for XYZ Hospital Target DRGs DRG Cluster XYZ National Variance
Number of Discharges in _ DRG Total for Grou....
Developing a Framework for a Security Assessment
Author: Parisien, Darryl
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: September 02, 2001
Is your organization taking the necessary actions to comply with the security regulations of HIPAA? Do you believe you have more time to comply? If you think you do, you might want to do a little more research. Take note that United States Code Title 42 Section 1320d-2 states:
Each pers....
Developing a Capstone Course within a Health Informatics Program
Author: Hackbarth, Gary; Cata, Teuta; Cole, Laura
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: July 2012
Abstract
This article discusses the ongoing development of a health informatics capstone program in a Midwest university from the hiring of a program coordinator to the development of a capstone course, through initial student results.
University health informatics....
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....
Departmental Information Systems and HIPAA: Easing the Tension (part 2)
Author: Nulan, Craig A.
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: June 02, 2002
Part two in a two-part series.
Part one of this article from the May 2002 issue of In Confidence focused on finding a balance between the needs of the information systems department and the requirements of HIPAA. The article offered tips on conducting an administrative certification as....
Departmental Information Systems and HIPAA: Easing the Tension (part 1)
Author: Nulan, Craig A.
Source: In Confidence (newsletter)
Publication Date: May 02, 2002
This is the first article in a two-part series. Look for part two in the June issue of In Confidence.
Healthcare has an interesting quandary in the areas of HIPAA privacy and security compliance. First, there is the unarguable tension between minimum necessary information access and use....
De-identification and the Sharing of Big Data
Author: White, Susan E
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2013
One of the newest buzz words in data analytics is “Big Data,” and the data created through the healthcare industry is some of the “biggest” around. The widespread implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) and the need to share data to measure quality and ma....
Defining the Basics of Health Informatics for HIM Professionals - Retired
Author: AHIMA Work Group
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2014
All data are not created equal and technology implementation alone is not enough to improve the healthcare provided to patients. Providers and organizations must be able to distinguish between an abundance of data, meaningful data, and integration of data. Healthcare organizations are challenge....
Defining Health Informatics
Author: Campbell, Robert James
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2013
[dih-fahy-ning] [helth] [in-fer-mat-iks]
adjective, noun, noun
1. An educator’s in-depth look at what informatics is and what it can do for HIM professionals
In the movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen finds himself in a movie theater line in....
Data Warehousing: Myths, Pitfalls, and the Secret Weapon
Author: Moyer, Rich
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2003
Is your organization using its data warehouse to its fullest potential? The author provides some pitfalls to avoid and some tips that may help improve care and use resources more efficiently.
Most healthcare organizations have invested in building a data warehouse. But once the warehouse....
Data Mining for Physician and Managed Care Organization
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....
Data Mining a Breach’s Silver Lining: Analyze Breach Data to Improve Release of Information Performance in HIM
Author: Delahoussaye, Elizabeth A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Health information management (HIM) professionals can pull meaningful information from privacy and security breach data to evaluate release of information (ROI) processes, uncover workflow risks, and implement corrective measures. While large scale breaches impacting millions of patients m....
Data, Information, Knowledge: A Healthcare Enterprise Case Study
Author: Gudea, Sorin
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: November 2005
Abstract
An efficient, integrated health services delivery enterprise requires the ability to coordinate service delivery across the provider network and avoid duplication of services. It must be able to associate relevant clinical information with patients regardless of which fa....
Data Bank: Using Data Assets to Support Evolving Payment Models and Survive Healthcare Reform
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
Washington, DC, has one of the highest populations of individuals who either have AIDS or are HIV-positive in the US. In an effort to improve early diagnosis rates, treatment compliance, and prevention, researchers are using innovative data analytics methods to track participants in a pil....
Data Analytics: It’s Hip to be Square
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 21, 2016
Big data. Data explosion. Predictive analytics. Population health. Data management. Chronic disease monitoring. Natural language processing. As though healthcare was not struggling enough to keep up with acronyms, synonyms, abbreviations, and poorly defined buzzwords, we have entered the e....
Data Analysis Starter Kit: How to Apply Informatics and Analyze ROI as an e-HIM Professional
Author: Dolezel, Diane
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2015
The digital era of Big Data has generated a growing need for more electronic health information management (e-HIM) professionals who can assume the emerging role of data analyst.1 This new role requires learning how to analyze data and perform statistical calculations to support informed d....
Cybersecurity 101
Author: Lucci, Susan; Walsh, Tom
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2015
One of the most alarming statistics in the news, which is growing with intent and severity, is the prevalence of cyber-attacks, particularly in healthcare. It is an alarming trend that has gained a good deal of attention. For example, in July 2015, UCLA reported that up to 4.5 million pati....
Critical Issues in Bioinformatics and Computing
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....
Consumer Health Informatics: Is There a Role for HIM Professionals?
Author: Dolan, Marsha; Wolter, Julie; Nielsen, Carol; Burrington-Brown, Jill
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: August 2009
Consolidated Health Informatics Initiative: Final Recommendation Information Sheets
Author: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS); Consolidated Health Info Initiative
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: January 29, 2004
Competencies for Global Health Informatics Education: Leveraging the US Experience
Author: Cortelyou-Ward, Kendall; Kahlon, Summerpal; Noblin, Alice
Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management
Publication Date: December 2013
Abstract
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has encouraged unprecedented expansion of the health information technology (HIT) industry and offers strong employment opportunities for those that qualify. However, academic institutions have been slow to address the changing n....
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....
Common (and Uncommon) Ground
Author: Dixon-Lee, Claire
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 1999
On a trip to Dublin this spring, I met with several officers of the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland. During this visit, we talked about health information management, finding common ground on topics like:
Year 2000 compliance
the need for clinical vocabulary....
Collecting Root Cause to Improve Coding Quality Measurement
Author: e-HIM Work Group on Benchmark Standards for Clinical Coding Performance Measurement. Quality Subgroup
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: March 2008
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Collaborating for Compliance: CMS' Hospital Payment Monitoring Program and Pepper Reports
Author: Orenstein, Anita; Newton, Kathy
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 21, 2005
Introduction
Hospitals throughout the country are being provided with the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPER) to review and take appropriate action. These reports are being sent to hospitals to assist them with identifying possible areas where improvements might....
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),....
CEN/TC 251: European Standardization of Health Informatics
Author: CEN/TC 251
Source: External web site
Publication Date: January 02, 2004
Calling All Data Mongers—Consider a Career as a Health Data Analyst
Author: Kadlec, Lesley
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: December 18, 2015
If you are reading this blog post, you have probably already figured out that data analytics is complex. Understanding data analytics is like the proverbial peeling back of the onion skin, the more layers you take off, the more layers you find underneath.
In today’s healthcar....
Blending HIM with Health IT: HIM Systems Analyst Plays Role to Fit an Electronic Record
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2008
David Diaz, RHIA, is an HIM systems analyst at Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego. The role blends information management and information services functions. “It’s a little different,” he says, but it works well for the facility and its electronic record system.
Big Data, Bigger Outcomes
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; O'Connor, Michele; Weaver, Victoria
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2012
Healthcare is embracing the big data movement, hoping to revolutionize HIM by distilling vast collections of data for specific analysis
One only needs to open a recent conference brochure, read an electronic newsletter, or preview marketing materials to appreciate that "B....
Beyond Electronic Health Record (EHR) Implementation-Decision Support Evolution
Author: Lambert, Mary
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
The Electronic Health Record is implemented- now what? Instead of paper records, filerooms, and a single source of patient data, the clinical information for a patient is immediately available to clinicians whenever and wherever they need it. How does this “anytime” and “anyw....
Basics of Risk Analysis and Risk Management
Author: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: August 18, 2005
Automation for Privacy and Security Compliance
Author: McLendon, Kelly
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2012
There has been a lack of enforcement of the privacy and security rules ever since HIPAA's inception. As such the adoption of comprehensive HIPAA compliance programs has lagged behind EHR development and implementation.
This in turn has caused little funding to be budgeted by provide....
Automating HIM through Health Information Exchange: An Informatics Approach
Author: Feldman, Sue; Houser, Shannon H.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2017
Editor’s Note: This article is the first installment of the new Working Smart department titled “Illuminating Informatics.” This department will explore all aspects of informatics and provide guidance to health information management professionals in the practical applica....
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