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....

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....

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,....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

Author: Sethi, Prerna; Theodos, Kimberly

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: September 2009

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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.....