Author: AHIMA

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2019

By Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA


I am so inspired by our leaders all across the country. At last year’s CSA Leadership Symposium it was agreed that AHIMA was in a state of decline and that change was needed. It was an amazing moment—one I will never forget an....

Author: Zak, Cindy

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2019

By Cindy Zak, MS, RHIA, PMP, FAHIMA


Yale New Haven Health (YNHH) began implementing the electronic health record (EHR) across four delivery networks in 2012. As the system moved to the electronic world, it became evident that YNHH needed to address the issue of defining the organi....

Author: AHIMA

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2019

By Wylecia Wiggs Harris, PhD, CAE, chief executive officer


September is a time of new starts. At AHIMA, it’s our busiest time of year as we prepare for our annual conference and a host of other fall and winter activities. It’s also a time to look back on the year: two-....

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2019

By Mary Butler


When Rita Bowen, MA, RHIA, CHPS, CHPC, SSGB, broke her elbow while attending an AHIMA event in Baltimore threeyears ago, she soldiered on through the event but summoned her primary care physician for a telemedicine encounter to determine her treatment. Later, when c....

Author: AHIMA

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2019

By Iliana L. Peters, JD, LLM, CISSP, and Pasha Sternberg, JD


ON MAY 30, 2019, Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively referred to in this article as “MIE”), agreed to pay $900,000 to 16 states that had jointly filed suit for violating t....

Author: Campbell, James R.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2019

By James R. Campbell, MD, FACP, FACMI


Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from Chapter 17 of Healthcare Code Sets, Terminologies, and Classification Systems, Fourth Edition, published by AHIMA Press.


In 2007, the Institute of Medicine set a vision for the....

Author: Sandefer, Ryan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2019

By Ryan Sandefer, PhD, and David Marc, PhD, CHDA


Skills in data analytics are critical to the future of health information management (HIM), yet there has been considerable confusion regarding how to articulate what data analytics means for the profession. In a survey of more than....

Author: AHIMA

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2019

By Ken Reiher, MBA









Ken Reiher, MBA




The Danger of Being Connected

Author: AHIMA

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2019

By Ty Greenhalgh, HCISPP


In 2014, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act required and incented hospitals to demonstrate “meaningful use” of an electronic health record (EHR). Hospitals, desiring to maintain existing Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement levels and av....

Author: Hedges, Ron

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2019

By Ron Hedges, JD


Healthcare providers deal with electronic information on a daily basis. Providers must expect that volumes and varieties of electronic information will increase exponentially with, for example, the rise of artificial intelligence in the diagnosis and treatment of....