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Building Data Quality into Clinical Trials
Author: Crerand, William J.; Lamb, Jana; Rulon, Vera; Karal, Bilun; Mardekian, Jack
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2002
Data management's mission is to construct databases that are complete and high quality to meet a study's analytic objectives and comply with regulatory standards. In this article, we'll provide an overview of basic procedures and approaches used in the pharmaceutical industry to "build quality....
Physician Practice Check-Up: Assessing a Practice’s Readiness for Electronic Health Records
Author: Crocker, Janice; Fahrenholz, Cheryl Gregg; Johnson, Wanda; Levinson, Stephen R; Washington, Lydia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2009
Federal incentives will take some of the pain out of transitioning a practice to an electronic health record system, but the transformation will be monumental, nonetheless. For practices that take the leap, focusing initial efforts on a readiness assessment lays a solid foundation for....
Going Monthly: Making the Case for Consistent Coding Audits
Author: Crow, Lisa
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: March 08, 2017
Monthly bills. Monthly lunch meetings. Monthly delinquent medical record report. So many tasks occur once a month. But monthly external coding audits? Isn’t once a year enough? No, says healthcare provider organizations.
Butler Memorial Hospital in Butler, PA, and dozen....
Using Data to Survive RAC Attacks: Analyzing Audit Data Helps Mitigate Future RAC Risk
Author: Crump, Dawn
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2014
Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program began as a three-year, three-state pilot program in 2005 and went nationwide in 2009. The American Hospital Association (AHA) began tracking data collection in January 2010 and since then, according to AHA, the RAC program has recouped $2.....
ABCs of Health Plan Audits
Author: Crump, Dawn; Hennum, Jeannie
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: March 2015
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has a dramatic ripple effect on the healthcare industry—and will continue to create seismic shifts for many years to come. One important change for health information management (HIM) professionals to understand is the impact of ACA on health plan audits. Alre....
Taking a Second Look at Audit Data: How to Glean RAC Intelligence for Better HIM Performance
Author: Crump, Dawn; Tice, Carolyn
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
The mere mention of the words “payer audits” can send even the most confident and capable health information management (HIM) directors into downward spirals of frustration and overload. These feelings are well known to providers who have found themselves forced to tread the mu....
Case for Portable Electronic Health Records
Author: Cuellar, Ed
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2004
As the healthcare industry continues its steady move toward comprehensive electronic medical record-keeping, there is one solution that could easily be implemented now using current technologies, that offers several baseline benefits to patients, providers, and payers. That solution is a phys....
Coding Connections in Revenue Cycle Management
Author: Cummins, Ruth; Waddell, Julie
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: July 2005
Recently, there has been a significant amount of talk in the healthcare industry about revenue cycle improvement. So what is all of the excitement about? It is about the bottom line. Specifically, how we can improve our bottom line through more effective and efficient revenue cycle management.....
Verbal Orders Compliance and How We Achieved It
Author: Curry, Mary Pat; Trask, Lisa; Liederman, Eric; Hutchinson, David; Zeboski, Alice
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2004
Thoughtful software design and good communication are fundamental ingetting physicians to sign verbal orders within the 48-hour mandate. Fines help a lot, too.
What hospital in the United States hasn’t struggled to comply with mandates from their state and the Joint Commission on....
Health Information Managers and Clinical Data Repositories: A Natural Fit
Author: Curtis, Clayton; Fenton, Susan H.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 1996
Introduction
Clinical data repositories (CDRs) are becoming the patient records of today and the foreseeable future. It is already clear that all clinical information, regardless of its origin (provider, patient, or even the computer itself), will someday be stored in a data repository (....
Physician Order Entry Goes Online: the Effect on Records and HIM Operations
Author: Curtis, Elizabeth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2005
As CPOE turns from vision to reality, what impact is it having on HIM? And what impact is HIM having on it?
Installing an order entry system in a busy hospital environment can be a huge undertaking for administration, information systems, nursing, ancillary departments, and the medical s....
How Analytics Can Direct and Improve Clinical Documentation
Author: Czahor, Amy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2017
The ability to analyze and report meaningful clinical data is fast becoming a core career objective and job requirement for clinical documentation improvement (CDI) professionals. Today’s CDI leaders are under increased pressure to promptly provide root cause analysis of CDI program....
HIM's Role in Value-Based Reimbursement: Three Leaders Weigh In on Impact
Author: Czahor, Amy; Evans, Ginna; Friedman, Beth; Head, Erin
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: August 01, 2016
The healthcare industry’s move from paper to electronic health records (EHRs) has spanned two decades. The implementation of ICD-10 took four years. Now the shift from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement is upon us. Like most large healthcare initiatives, full realization of....
Drafting a Blueprint for Information Governance
Author: Czarkowski, Lynette; Clark, Jill S
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2015
Information governance (IG) is evolving as a necessity in healthcare as institutions expand their footprint and partnerships to meet “meaningful use” and earn EHR Incentive Program payments, participate in accountable care organizations, and tackle other industry challenges suc....
Three Steps to Increasing Employee Information Security Awareness
Author: Czirr, Karen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2000
Driven by current and potential privacy regulations and legislation, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) decided to address employee understanding of information security. In 1999, CHOP, comprised of a hospital, rehabilitation facility, physician offices, satellites, and ambulatory....
Recognizing the Value of HIM
Author: Czirr, Karen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2001
HIM professionals make significant contributions to patient care, public health, and a healthcare facility's bottom line. Although the HIM professionals at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia were busy implementing HIPAA and computer-based patient records, directing data qual....
Fighting Burnout: How to Identify, Reduce Stress for You and Your Employees
Author: Dahlstrand, Harold
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2003
When bad days start to add up, you may be suffering from burnout. How can you diagnose and treat burnout in yourself and your employees? A career counselor offers answers.
No matter how much HIM professionals love their work, its not uncommon for them to experience burnout. One of....
Heading Up HIPAA Compliance
Author: Dahlstrand, Harold
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2002
Why do some organizations consistently thrive in an era of ever-changing politics, regulations, and increasingly scarce resources? The answer is leadership. Winning organizations have excellent leaders who know how to make smart decisions and implement them quickly and effectively. Those who a....
Vision of the Future: Strategically Managing an HIM Department
Author: Dahlstrand, Harold; Hjort, Beth M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2002
Do you know where your HIM department is headed? HIM departments are affected by many external forces, yet a considered vision and anticipation of the unexpected can help to make the uncontrollable more manageable.
If you're an HIM leader, ask yourself these questions: What is....
Turning a Dream Into Reality: The Evolution of a Seamless Electronic Health Record
Author: Dalander, Geoffrey; Willner, Sue; Brasch, Sam
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 1997
Imagine: It has been a productive day. Although it is only Wednesday, you have accomplished all the items on your weekly to-do list. All the hospital and SNF records are coded and analyzed. The discharges from this past Monday have been billed. Ongoing audits of the medical records are now com....
Final Rule for FY 2008 IPPS: MS-DRGs and POA Top List in a Year of Major Change
Author: D'Amato, Cheryl; Garrett, Gail S.; Johnson, Laurie M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2007
The final rule for the fiscal year 2008 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) went into effect October 1, 2007. The rule includes ICD-9-CM code changes, implementation of the new Medicare severity-adjusted (MS) DRG system, and a number of quality-related changes that affect how Medic....
Society for Clinical Coding Comes Around as CoP
Author: D'Amato, Cheryl; Hoag, Patience J.; Crocker, Elsa; Neville, Deborah; Carpenter-Barbee, Cheryl; Bartell, Laurie
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: June 2002
Remember the glorious Knights of the Round Table who made Camelot famous? King Arthur created a meeting place with special significance, a roundtable at which every seat had equal worth. AHIMA has embraced the spirit of this concept in a program known as coding roundtables, which are designed....
Lowering Costs, Protecting Data through Content-based E-mail Encryption
Author: Dasher, John
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2007
DeKalb Medical Center, a not-for-profit hospital system in Decatur, GA, that serves approximately 500,000 patients annually, was looking for a way to secure HIPAA-covered personal health records. “We wanted to eliminate any potential risk of confidential information leaving the facility electro....
Evaluating the Information Governance Principles for Healthcare: Accountability and Transparency
Author: Datskovsky, Galina; Hedges, Ron; Empel, Sofia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2015
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of four articles that will discuss the eight Information Governance Principles for Healthcare.
AHIMA’s newly introduced Information Governance Principles for Healthcare (IGPHC) provides a framework for healthcare organizations to....
Evaluating the Information Governance Principles for Healthcare: Compliance and Availability
Author: Datskovsky, Galina; Hedges, Ron; Empel, Sofia; Washington, Lydia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2015
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of four articles that discuss the eight Information Governance Principles for Healthcare.
AHIMA’s new Information Governance Principles for Healthcare (IGPHC) provide a framework for healthcare organizations to leverage informati....
Evaluating the Information Governance Principles for Healthcare: Retention and Disposition
Author: Datskovsky, Galina; Hedges, Ron; Empel, Sofia; Washington, Lydia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2015
Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a series of four articles that discuss the eight Information Governance Principles for Healthcare™.
AHIMA’s Information Governance Principles for Healthcare™ (IGPHC) provide a framework for healthcare organizations to enhance....
Evaluating the Information Governance Principles for Healthcare: Integrity and Protection
Author: Datskovsky, Galina; Hedges, Ron; Empel, Sofia; Washington, Lydia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2015
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of four articles that discuss the eight Information Governance Principles for Healthcare.
AHIMA’s new Information Governance Principles for Healthcare (IGPHC) provides a framework for healthcare organizations to enhance their ab....
Medical Records' Dynamic Nature: If It Isn't Written Down, It Didn't Happen. And If It Is Written Down, It Might Not Be What It Seems
Author: David, Gary; Vinkhuyzen, Erik
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2013
Documents are a fundamental component of any organization. In fact, no organization can exist without filing the proper paperwork. Documents are such a pervasive part of our everyday life that almost every parody of office work involves the specter of a burdensome documentation requirement....
Do You Want Fries With That? Decoding All the 'Extras' in Physician Visits
Author: Davies, Sharon
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2016
Place an order at almost any fast food chain and you can expect to hear the cashier ask, “Do you want fries with that?” From fries to soft drinks to apple pie desserts, extras abound at any given restaurant. When working on the coding for physician visits, it’s important to keep all the p....
Coding Discussions about the Elephant in the Room
Author: Davies, Sharon
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2017
One thing is for certain, everyone’s life will end someday. But who wants to broach this uncomfortable subject in a healthcare setting? The patient? The patient’s family? The primary care provider? The hospitalists?
Medicare has recognized the value of this servi....
Assessing Privacy Risk in Outsourcing
Author: Davino, Margaret
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2004
Healthcare providers can outsource transcription, but they can’t outsource their obligation to safeguard privacy. Here’s how to minimize risk.
Healthcare providers are faced with multiple pressures, many of them financial. The need for management to meet financial constraints....
What HIM Professionals Need to Know About Telehealth
Author: Davis, Adrian
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 2015
This year the American Telemedicine Association estimates more than 450,000 patients will see a doctor in the form of a virtual visit over a secure Internet connection. As new models for service delivery and population health emerge, virtual physician visits are fast becoming an important....
Stealing Time: Time Management Techniques Add Hours to Each Day
Author: Davis, Nadinia A.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2003
Time not only flies when were having fun, but also when were filing paperwork, checking e-mail, and looking for our car keys. But you can add hours to your day by managing yourself rather than time. Heres how.
As a nonrenewable resource, time is precious. There neve....
Help Wanted: Five Steps to Take Before You Hire
Author: Davis, Nadinia A.; Gentul, Marion K.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2002
Are you hiring? This excerpt from AHIMAs new publication, Effective Management of Coding Services, offers basic guidelines that coding managers can use to assess their facilities needs when recruiting applicants to fill a vacancy in the HIM department.
Step One: Perform a Ne....
Meeting the FTC’s Red Flag Requirements: How One Organization Developed Its Compliance Plan
Author: Davis, Nancy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2009
Like many other privacy and security officers, I was vaguely aware of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act. I knew that the act, passed by Congress in 2003, was intended to provide consumers with protection from identity theft. I knew the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was in charge o....
Curiosity Killed the Career
Author: Davis, Nancy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Nancy Davis, MS, RHIA, CHPS
While serving as a system privacy officer for a Wisconsin-based healthcare system, the author of this article met regularly with the organization’s president to review privacy and security compliance. This time was spent reviewing breaches that membe....
Understanding Disclosures for Firearm Background Checks
Author: Davis, Nancy; Glondys, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2016
Federal law prohibits the sale of firearms to certain individuals with a history of mental illness. Recent mass shootings have focused attention on the fact that the individuals perpetrating these crimes often had a documented history of mental illness which went undetected despite state a....
Identity Theft and Fraud--the Impact on HIM Operations
Author: Davis, Nancy; Lemery, Chrisann; Roberts, Kim
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2005
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Data Quality Management Model (2015 Update) - Retired
Author: Davoudi, Sion; Dooling, Julie A; Glondys, Barbara; Jones, Theresa D.; Kadlec, Lesley; Overgaard, Shauna M; Ruben, Kerry; Wendicke, Annemarie
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
Editor’s Note: This Practice Brief supersedes the July 2012 “Data Quality Management Model (Updated),” the March 1998 “Checklist to Assess Data Quality Management Efforts,” and the June 1998 “Data Quality Management Model” Practice Briefs.
HHA Prospective Payment System Changes
Author: Deakle, Mary S; DeVault, Kathryn
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: March 2013
Several changes to the prospective payment system went into effect at the start of 2013, including coding changes affecting the M1024 Rule.
Reimbursement for home healthcare agencies (HHA) was converted to a prospective payment system by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid....
APIs and the Privacy, Security Challenge for HIM
Author: Dean, A. Andrews
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By A. Andrews Dean, CPHIMS, CHDA, CPHI, CPPM, CPC
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) turned many healthcare information technology consultants’ heads in March 2018 when they announced the new MyHealthEData initiative—intended to continue CMS’s goal of digitizing....
House Scanning the HIM Horizon
Author: Delahoussaye, Elizabeth A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2016
The primary objective of the House of Delegates (House), made up of delegates from AHIMA’s Component State Associations, is to look at professional issues affecting the health information management (HIM) profession both today and in the future. Essentially, this is a venue in which AHIMA....
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....
House of Delegates Year in Review
Author: Delahoussaye, Elizabeth A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
This has been a busy and engaging year for the members of the House of Delegates (HoD) as we build on the present and prepare for the future.
For those who may not be familiar with the HoD, it is a grassroots AHIMA member forum that governs the health information managemen....
E-Discovery from the Judicial Perspective
Author: DeLoss, Gerald E.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2010
In a typical legal action, judges have a different perspective on the production of electronically stored information (ESI) than do HIM professionals. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, case law, and past experiences with discovery disputes play an important role in how judges view e-discov....
Responding to Requests from Law Enforcement Officials for Release of PHI
Author: DeMasters, Dana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2015
A police officer arrives in the emergency department of a hospital at 2 a.m. seeking information about a patient who was recently admitted following a motor vehicle accident. The officer suspects the patient was intoxicated while driving and assertively asks the nurse to tell him the resul....
Business Associates and Satisfactory Assurances: A Simple Security Tool
Author: DeMasters, Dana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2019
By Dana DeMasters, MN, RN, CHPS
Covered entities are sharing vast amounts of electronic protected health information (ePHI) with business associates (BAs)—from outsourcing entire information technology and patient billing departments to participating in health information ex....
Healthcare Privacy Considerations of Body-Worn Cameras
Author: DeMasters, Dana; Deanna, Peterson
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2016
A police officer with a body-worn camera records video of an altercation in an emergency department involving a patient who has become violent. During the recording another patient not involved in the altercation has their image captured. The officer leaves the facility wit....
Treating LGBT Status as a Patient Safety Issue
Author: Deming, Sally; Dooling, Julie A; Kadlec, Lesley; Kirby, Annessa; Munns, Megan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2016
The 2015 Supreme Court decision requiring states to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize same sex marriage across state lines has widespread implications for health records management.1
This article will describe these implications and issu....
Resource for Privacy and Security Programs: Version 5.0 of HIMSS CPRI Toolkit Expands to Include Privacy Topics
Author: Demster, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2006
The breadth of available privacy and security literature can be daunting to even the most dedicated HIM professional. With the explosion of information on the Internet, access to authoritative-as well as questionable-resources is easy and instantaneous. The problem of access has morphed into o....
Ensuring Privacy and Security in Home Health
Author: Demster, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2007
Every healthcare provider must customize its privacy and security program to fit its unique setting and needs. How an organization maintains its records (analog, paper, electronic, or mixed modes) drives its privacy and security procedures. While regulations provide the basic requirem....
Privacy Rule and the Clergy: Exploring the Dilemmas Surrounding HIPAA and Pastoral Care
Author: Demster, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2006
On the surface, the HIPAA privacy rule's requirements dealing with disclosures to clergy appear straightforward. Three years after implementation, however, major hurdles still exist and processes need further clarification. Key issues center around how healthcare institutions assess and defi....
Data Ownership Evolves with Technology
Author: Demster, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
Technology has transformed the world of health information management (HIM), bringing about change for many of the field’s longstanding professional concepts and work methods. The classic rule of ownership in the words-on-paper era of health records was that “the paper (physical medium) belong....
What’s Next for the Privacy Rule? HIPAA for All, or Something Quite Like It
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2008
The privacy rule is just six, but gaps in its coverage have already widened. Now some organizations are recommending that the rule—or something like it—expand to cover any organization that handles personal health information in any form.
Six years ago....
Inclusive Membership: What's in It for You?
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2006
In October the House of Delegates will vote on a proposed change to AHIMA’s bylaws that would establish a more inclusive membership policy. The change would welcome new types of professionals interested in HIM into our active membership category. Right now, active membership is limited to thos....
Positioning AHIMA for 2007: Involvement in the Profession, Contributions to the Industry
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2006
Do you set goals for yourself? I do, though some of my personal resolutions never seem to survive the first half of the year. One of my personal goals for 2006 was to have a spotlessly clean desk at the end of every work day. If you could see me right now, you'd see just how unsuccessful tha....
Get Out the Vote: Elections Provide Members the Opportunity to Set AHIMA's Future Course
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2006
How involved are you in setting the future direction of AHIMA? There are many ways for members to get involved, but one of the most potent and direct ways is in your choice of leaders.
AHIMA Elections
Each year members have an opportunity to vote for the association’....
Taking Stock: Reviewing AHIMA's 2006 Accomplishments to Date
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2006
It’s hard to believe that we’re midway through the calendar year. This is a good time to reflect on AHIMA’s year-to-date progress. Here are just a few of our key accomplishments so far. (To make it interesting, give yourself one point for each item you have already heard about....
New Privacy Officer's Game Plan
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2001
The HIPAA-mandated privacy officer role offers a new opportunity for HIM professionals. What skills are required, and what needs to be done first? This article answers these questions.
As healthcare organizations roll out their plans for HIPAA implementation, many HIM profession....
Quality Care through Quality Information: Get Involved to Help Further HIM's Value to Healthcare
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2006
I think there is something special about people who go into our profession and all healthcare professions. It revolves around that patient in the hospital, that resident in the nursing facility, that client in the mental health center, and that consumer maintaining a personal health record. <....
Take Part in Team Talks: Your Role in Determining AHIMA's Future
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2006
We're almost a quarter of the way through 2006, so it's a good time to measure our progress on our 2006 goals.
This year, one goal of AHIMA's board of directors is to develop a process to more deeply embed our association's strategy into our operations through the use of a balanced....
Inclusive Membership?: AHIMA Weighs Combining Associate and Active Memberships
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2006
Imagine you’re the director of HIM at a large healthcare organization. Your organization is undertaking a large, high-stakes project: converting to an electronic health record (EHR). Now imagine a coworker--it could be an IT professional, a nurse informaticist, or a physician--tells you h....
Staying Connected
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2006
AHIMA’s Convention Offers Great Networking, Educational Opportunities, But There Are Many More Ways to Stay Connected
This month thousands of members will gather in Denver, CO, for AHIMA’s 78th Convention and Exhibit. Attending the annual conference is a great way for members....
Outlining Your Health Information Strategy: Tips for Providing Quality Patient Service
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2006
What's your organization's health information strategy? Having spent the last few months experiencing the healthcare system from the standpoint of a patient's spouse, I would suggest the following patient-centered actions.
Create patient-friendly processes to authorize the release o....
EHR, PHR Benefits: Proof is Use
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2006
No one relishes the experience of being a patient or of having a family member be a patient. But being put in that position reminds us of the importance of accurate and complete health information, both for the healthcare system and for the individual patient.
The Power of PHRs
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Just Sign Here: Managing Informed Consent
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2000
There’s more to ensuring the validity of a patient’s consent than getting a signature. Is your organization making sure that patients are successfully informed about treatments and procedures? Here’s what HIM professionals need to know about this communication process.
Getting a patient....
Queuing up for Quality: Boosting Quality with Electronic Work Queues
Author: Denny, Susan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2008
Electronic work queues capture incomplete records, enabling quality improvement initiatives to do more, more easily.
More than two years ago Jupiter Medical Center went live with an electronic record and retrieval system. The system allows users to scan and v....
Clinical Validation: The Next Level of CDI
Author: Denton, Debra Beisel; Endicott, Melanie; Ericson, Cheryl E; Love, Tammy R.; McDonald, Lori; Willis, Daphne
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2016
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
The Privacy Mindset: Setting Better Boundaries with Third-Party Record Reviewers
Author: Derlink, Amy L; Schembari, Elaine
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2012
Responding to an audit can be hectic and stressful, but HIM professionals must remember to hold external record reviewers accountable to good privacy and security practices.
When you visit the hair salon, take an exercise class, or sit across from a financial planner, you expect them....
Getting from Here to There with Longitudinal Quality Metrics
Author: Derr, John F.; O’Malley, Terrence A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2013
Editor’s note: This is the third and final installment of a series reviewing the current and desired state of longitudinal care, as well as the steps healthcare stakeholders need to take to embrace this emerging quality measurement process.
E-quality measures....
Scanning the HIM Environment: AHIMA’s 2015 Report Offers Insight on Emerging Industry Trends and Challenges
Author: Desai, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2015
Today’s healthcare environment is driven by various economic and regulatory forces and technological advancements that bring both opportunities and challenges. Healthcare organizations need the right information at the right time to make accurate decisions regarding patient care and....
Focus on the Future: Environmental Scan Illuminates the Path Ahead for HIM
Author: Desai, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2013
Whether planning a summer vacation or the direction of a new business, one must consider the larger external environment. Consider a trip to the grocery store. You’d like to get this done as quickly as possible. You run into some traffic. There’s been an accident on the road you usually take t....
8 Steps to Success in ICD-10-CM/PCS Mapping: Best Practices to Establish Precise Mapping Between Old and New ICD Code Sets
Author: De, Suman
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2012
Just as drivers must select the proper road map for planning a trip, healthcare organizations must also manage their code translation process through a defined road map.
This article provides essential guidance to healthcare organizations on adopting best practices that will....
FY 2012 Changes to the Hospital IPPS
Author: DeVault, Kathryn
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: November 2011
The final rule for the FY 2012 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System was released August 1, 2011. Changes in the rule went into effect with October 1, 2011, inpatient discharges.
MS-DRG Documentation and Coding Adjustment
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services....
ICD-10-PCS Root Operation Groups, Part 3
Author: DeVault, Kathryn
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: September 2010
Root Operations That Alter the Diameter/Route of a Tubular Body Part and That Define Other Repairs
The medical and surgical procedure section of ICD-10-PCS contains most, but not all, procedures typically coded and reported in the hospital inpatient setting. This article is the th....
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