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Workaday Informatics: How Healthcare is Applying Practical Informatics to Save Dollars and Lives
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2015
Watch and learn. For clinical informaticist Nathan Patrick Taylor, MPH, MS, CHDA, and others like him, watching patient-physician encounters and learning from them is just as important as knowing how to query data in a health IT system. Because as technical as informatics can get, at its....
Winding Down the Paper Shuffle: New Roles, Responsibilities for HIM
Author: Rollins, Gina
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2001
What does it mean for an organization's records to be "paperless"? In hospitals and clinics across the country, the paper shuffle may be winding down, but it's not quite over yet. In this article, HIM professionals in these organizations tell their stories.
The movement tow....
Why an Informatics Degree Matters
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: April 2015
The HIM Problem
As HIM becomes increasingly data-centric, knowledge of informatics is becoming an essential tool.
Today, it’s hard to identify even one aspect of health information management (HIM) as a profession that isn’t profoundly affected by the use,....
When to Send a Breach Notification: New HIPAA Rules Revise “Harm” Standard
Author: Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2013
The HITECH Act’s omnibus HIPAA modification final rule, released January 25, 2013, finalized sweeping changes to privacy and security regulations. Though much of the proposed rule was adopted, the omnibus rule included major changes made to the “harm threshold” standard i....
What Makes Data Meaningful? The Important Role of Data Structures
Author: Wendicke, Annemarie
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2016
Healthcare is striving for meaningful health data—something well noted in many recent industry articles and presentations. But how will the cultivation of meaningful data be accomplished in the healthcare industry’s complex environment?
Healthcare data comes from....
Weaving Together a Healthcare Improvement Tapestry: Learning Health System Brings Together Health IT Data Stakeholders to Share Knowledge and Improve Health
Author: Rubin, Joshua C; Friedman, Charles P
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2014
As the “Vision” section of AHIMA’s website states, AHIMA aims to “lead the advancement and ethical use of quality health information to promote health and wellness worldwide.” In many ways, the Learning Health System’s (LHS) overarching vision represents....
Watson vs. Big Data
Author: AHIMA Staff
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2015
It is the matchup of the century—the towering hulk of healthcare’s Big Data versus the super computer known as Watson. Will Watson be able to take on this lumbering, untamed mass of information and whip it into submission?
One year ago, the Journal of AHIMA reported on the IBM su....
Vision of Health Information Management in 2010
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 1999
Two-thirds of today's health information managers will be in the prime of their careers 10 years from now. But what will the world of work look like? One way to gain an understanding of the future is to create scenarios. Scenarios are literally stories about the future th....
Validating MDS and OASIS Data with DAVE
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....
Utah’s All Payer Claims Database
Author: Cofrin, Kelly
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Introduction
As part of its decades-long effort to collect, analyze, and report on healthcare quality and cost, Utah has funded and created one of the country’s leading All Payer Claims databases. This data resource brings an unprecedented ability to examine costs for episodes of ca....
Using MedPAR Data as a Measure of Urinary Tract Infection Rates: Implications for the Medicare Inpatient DRG Payment System
Author: Stringham, Jerry; Young, Nancy
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: December 2005
Abstract
A valuable metric of hospital performance is the rate of nosocomial infections, particularly urinary tract infections (UTIs). Current measurement techniques are expensive to administer and are not widely available. Determining a measurement index of nosocomial UTI incide....
Use Data Mining Findings as a Tool to Support CDI Education
Author: Easterling, Sharon; Endicott, Melanie; Lojewski, Tedi; Maccariella-Hafey, Patricia C; Martin, Ginny
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2014
Clinical validation involves the clinical review of a case to determine whether or not the patient truly possesses the conditions documented in the health record. Productivity and coding quality often suffer when the health record lacks accurate documentation to support the claim, and cur....
Unwrapping Data Standards
Author: Rollins, Gina
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2007
Data content standards affect a wide range of day-to-day HIM work. Here’s what you need to know.
They may sound like they belong up in the IT stratosphere, but data content standards-or the lack of them-affect a wide range of day-to-day HIM work right here on....
Unlock the Information Secrets in Your Billing Database
Author: Kuehn, Lynn
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2001
The data contained in your billing database can provide valuable information about billing accuracy and completeness, can identify coding trends that may require investigation, or provide information on patients who may require follow-up care. The billing database for a physician, or....
Unlocking the Benefits of ICD-10 through Data Analytics
Author: Ewing, Crystal
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2016
The reality of the ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation and the fact that it was, by all measures, a success, is the payoff of years of hard work. It’s the product of lessons learned from the implementation of 5010 and the outcome of diligence on the part of healthcare professionals, providers, a....
Tying Together CDI, ICD-10, and Healthcare Data Analytics: How CDI Programs and ICD-10 Are Impacting Data Analytics—and The Benefits Healthcare Organizations Are Seeing
Author: Bradley, Paul
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
A year in and ICD-10 is almost approaching the point of old news.
Of course—I’m kidding! Nothing could be further from the truth. From a data analytics perspective, the impact of ICD-10 is only beginning to be realized and understood.
For one, this first year....
Two Key Metrics in Evaluating the Effectiveness of Hospital Coding Services: Paid Claims Error Rate and Coding Accuracy
Author: Spencer, Carol
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: September 27, 2010
Measurement, as defined by Webster's Dictionary, is to regulate by a standard, an estimate of what is expected, a basis or standard of comparison, a step planned or taken as a means to an end, to choose or control with cautious restraint. This is accomplished repeatedly and systematically....
Translational Bioinformatics and Healthcare Informatics: Computational and Ethical Challenges
Author: Sethi, Prerna; Theodos, Kimberly
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: September 2009
Transitioning to Electronic Clinical Quality Measures in the Informatics Era
Author: Houser, Shannon H.; Meadows, Jean M
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2017
There are a number of recent factors driving changes to how healthcare quality is being measured. First, there’s the rapid adoption of healthcare information technology (HIT) due to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) “meaningful use” Electronic Health Re....
Transitioning to a Data-Driven, Informatics-Oriented Department
Author: Dooling, Julie A; Houser, Shannon H.; Mikaelian, Raymound; Smith, Clarice Pittillo
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Are you a data-driven individual? Is your health information management (HIM) department focused on becoming data-driven or informatics-oriented?
Today’s data analytics and informatics-oriented organizations are the centerpiece of operations and strategic visioning&mda....
Transforming Nursing through EHRs: An Overview of the TIGER Initiative
Author: Burrington-Brown, Jill
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2008
In February 2007 the Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER) Initiative, a group of nursing and informatics leaders, released a report titled “Evidence and Informatics Transforming Nursing: 3-year Action Steps toward a 10-Year Vision.”1 The report describes ho....
Transforming Data into Meaning: Standards-based Capabilities to Bring Disparate Data Sources Together
Author: Selsky, Darren
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2016
Data integration is a costly activity, but one that is used by healthcare organizations on a daily basis to unite information from diverse sources, such as lab, pharmacy, and radiology. This data is typically centralized in electronic health records (EHRs) or other niche systems for clini....
Tools for Data Analysis: New Toolkit Provides Resources for Health Data Analysts
Author: Clark, Jill S
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2011
Healthcare entities collect a vast amount of administrative, clinical, and financial data. Health data analysts play a critical role in helping translate these data into meaningful information that can be used to identify improvement opportunities, recognize trends, and assist in decision maki....
Time to Step Up: HIM Professionals Embrace Growth in Health Data Analyst Role
Author: Taylor, Lisa Brooks
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2013
Each year the AHIMA national convention ends with an inspirational speaker. In 2012, in a personal and well-received chat, comedian Joy Behar shared in her emblematic, witty, and straight forward style a three-step life motto that led to her success:
Show up
Warm....
The Year Ahead
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2015
Human beings have been fascinated by birds—their flight patterns, colors, and songs—for centuries. In the ancient world, “augurs,” Roman practitioners of “augury,” looked for clues about the past and future by observing birds in flight, hoping for omens.....
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