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Collaboration is Key to Leading Through Transformation
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....
Developing and Defining a Legal Health Record Policy
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....
New Starts and Transformation Wins
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-....
In Search of EHR's Designated Record Set
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....
Historic State AG HIPAA Filing: An Important Case to Understand
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....
Data Mapping of Clinical Terminologies, Classifications, and Ontologies
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....
Data Analytics: The Straight-Lined Labyrinth that Entrapped the HIM Profession
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....
PHI Hide and Seek: Hidden PHI Carries High Financial Risk
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....
Lost Data and Its Implications for Litigation
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....
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