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Meaningful Use Opens Up Its Deep End: With Some Providers Still Dipping Toes, CMS has Opened up its Health IT Program's More Challenging Deep End with Stage 2
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2013
Sink or swim. These are the two choices participants of the "meaningful use" EHR Incentive Program will soon face now that the federal government has opened up the program's deeper, more complex second stage.
Though physician and hospital involvement in the program has incre....
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.....
Not So Fast! Congress Delays ICD-10-CM/PCS: Examining How the Delay Happened, Its Industry Impact, and How Best to Proceed
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2014
On April 1 health IT stakeholders that had been diligently speeding down the road to ICD-10-CM/PCS compliance were once again forced to pull over.
This time, the mother of all gapers’ delays didn’t come from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS....
Mind the Gap: HIM Rushes to Bridge Educational and Professional Gaps Caused by a Quickly Advancing Industry
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2015
American high school students approaching their senior year have good reason to envy their European counterparts who enjoy the more common experience of a “gap year” between high school and college.
A gap year, at least in Europe, is a socially accepted opportuni....
The Year Ahead for HIM: Reflecting on HIM’s Past Year, and Looking to Its Future in 2014
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2014
On New Year’s Eve, waiting for the Times Square ball to drop, optimistic individuals focus on starting fresh with their resolutions for the new year. Meanwhile, it’s easy to get caught up in the boozy lyrics of “Auld Lang Syne” and reflect on the year that was and w....
Computer-Assisted Coding Reality Check
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Mary Butler
As text messaging has come to replace telephone calls as the primary means of interpersonal communication, apps such as SwiftKey have popped up to help those with less than nimble thumbs. SwiftKey and other “intelligent keyboards” quickly learn a user&rs....
Hacked! What to Do Following a Cyberattack
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2019
By Mary Butler
Steve Giles, chief information officer (CIO) at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, says the experience of his organization’s 2016 high-profile ransomware attack was among the top three most terrible events he has lived through in his professional and p....
Check Yourself: Internal Revenue Cycle Audits Gain Importance
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2019
By Mary Butler
Being told “there’s going to be an audit” triggers a fight or flight reaction of sorts. Visions of G-men in suits and ties, ominously wielding briefcases and calculators, spring to mind before the bearer of the bad news can clarify the context or minimize the i....
Tackling Non-Acute Care’s Unique Privacy and Security Challenges
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2019
By Mary Butler
Patient privacy is at a true premium in retail pharmacies. Patients can choose to present at a drive-thru window, a desk that shares space with a cash register or two, a consultation window, or a script drop-off area where the only privacy barrier is behind the coun....
‘The Farewell’ Offers Insights into HIPAA’s Right to Access
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Mary Butler
In the film The Farewell, Chinese-American actress and comedian Awkwafina plays a woman torn between two cultural approaches to death and dying when her character, Billi, learns that her grandmother has terminal lung cancer. Billi's grief is compounded when she....
Top HITECH-HIPAA Compliance Obstacles Emerge: Analyzing lessons learned from six months of Omnibus Privacy Rule implementation efforts
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2014
Have a spare 32.8 million hours? The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sure hopes so.
As noted in the Federal Register, that figure is the total number of hours the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) estimated it would take all HIPAA-covered entities combined....
IG and 'Mission Control': Launching the Future of Healthcare
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: August 2015
Information governance doesn’t look the same from organization to organization, or even industry to industry. Even if all healthcare organizations followed AHIMA’s Information Governance Principles for Healthcare™ (IGPHC) to the letter, every organization will inte....
HIPAA on the Social Network—What Consumers Need to Know
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 2015
Without a doubt, patient privacy rights have improved in recent years.
In the 1950s and 60s, and even well into the 1980s, it was standard for small-town newspapers to publish lists of the names of people, regardless of age, who were admitted or discharged from the hospital.....
EHR Lessons from the Zoo
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: August 28, 2015
For many health IT stakeholders tackling the bugaboo of making electronic health records (EHRs) interoperable, it’s easy to imagine many of them thinking, This would be so simple without HIPAA or reimbursement. When it comes to the “one system, many providers” approach to EHR interoperabil....
HIM's Professional Shake-Up Wake-Up: Moving Beyond Reality 2016 and 'Reimagining' HIM for a Quickly Changing Healthcare Industry
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2016
Health information management (HIM) and coding professionals intent on keeping their jobs and their skills relevant would do well to study the career prospects of medical transcriptionists, their healthcare documentation brethren. As providers started transitioning to electronic health rec....
Release or Not? Patients’ Rights to Health Records Becoming Increasingly Complex
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2016
It is a dark and stormy night at a mid-sized regional trauma center when an EMS team brings in a 30-year-old man who is suffering from a prescription narcotics overdose. The patient is conscious but disoriented when he arrives on a gurney. When he wakes up, his loved ones, dutifully at his....
Healthcare Reaches the EHR Tipping Point: Examining the HIM Implications and Expectations Now That A Majority of Us Providers are Using EHRs
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2014
Sometimes one must call back into the past to understand the present and future.
When it comes to current challenges and successes with electronic health records (EHRs), the ongoing countrywide implementation mirrors that of another revolutionary wired device.
Coders or Nurses for CDI Teams: Why Hiring Both to Collaborate Works Best
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2019
By Mary Butler
On the most widely used job search websites, listings for clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists typically look something like this:
Description: The clinical documentation improvement specialist provides support of clinical docume....
How an AHIMA Credential is Born
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By Mary Butler
When you see a list of letters after a health information management (HIM) professional’s last name, it’s sometimes too easy to take for granted all the long, hard hours that went into earning and creating those acronyms. For both the credential earner and the certi....
Third Parties and Your Health Data: What’s the Fine Print?
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: July 01, 2017
Wellness-obsessed consumers now have more tools at their disposal than ever before to help them “live their best lives,” as Oprah might say.
While employer-sponsored health insurance helps individuals gain access to access to care, employer-provided wellness programs can help....
Profile: One HIM Professional's Road to the C-Suite
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: May 10, 2017
The journey from coding professional to C-suite executive isn’t really as far as it seems—just ask Cheryl Harmon, MBA, COO of St. Vincent Indiana, which is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN. Last year, Harmon—who started her health information management (HIM) career as a coder for an ambu....
Three HIM Stories to Watch for in 2017
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: January 2017
While the healthcare industry plays “wait and see” with regard to what a Trump Administration means for the regulatory landscape of the last eight years, the events of this past year offer a few hints as to what we might expect in 2017.
Two major pieces of legislation passed....
Managing Health Information in International Waters
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: December 2016
When people ask Davi Trotti, MA, RHIA, what it was like to live onboard the hospital ship Africa Mercy, she tells them “During the week I live in Europe and on the weekends I live in Africa.”
That’s because for three years, Trotti was the only person with a health information....
Converting MS-DRGs to ICD-10-CM/PCS: Methods Used, Lessons Learned
Author: Butler, Rhonda R.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2009
Like the rest of us, MS-DRGs have to transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS. The conversion is off to a good start, with a preliminary version already available. The project offered an early test of the General Equivalence Mappings and provides a conversion process for other applications.
In m....
ICD-10 General Equivalence Mappings: Bridging the Translation Gap from ICD-9
Author: Butler, Rhonda R.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2007
In healthcare, diagnosis and procedure codes and their attached descriptions are the currency for many critical data transactions. Healthcare organizations rely heavily on coded data to govern reimbursement, monitor the health of the population, track trends in disease and treatment, and....
Bridging the Translation Gap from ICD-9
Author: Butler, Rhonda R.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2008
A recurring theme in the ongoing ICD-10 implementation debate has been the need for a crosswalk between the old and new code sets to help the industry make the transition. The lack of an “official” mapping between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/-PCS has long been seen as a major challe....
ICD-10 Reimbursement Mappings: New Mappings from CMS Help Organizations in the Transition to ICD-10
Author: Butler, Rhonda R.; Mills, Ronald E
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: April 2009
Starting October 1, 2013, healthcare claims will be submitted to payers using ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes and ICD-10-PCS procedure codes. Some payers such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are converting their reimbursement systems to use ICD-10 codes directly. However, som....
Reading the Fine Print on ICD-10 Conversions: Even Highly Automated Conversions Require Review
Author: Butler, Rhonda R.; Mills, Ronald E; Averill, Richard F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2011
Automation is a major help in converting to the ICD-10 code set, but it is not a magical solution. In fact, skipping a human review of converted systems exposes an organization to legal and financial risk.
People who are secondary users of coded medical records-who see only the resul....
What Physicians Want in an EHR: Physician Practices have been Ignored by Health IT Vendors—Until Now
Author: Butterfield, Blair
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2012
Physician practices have made great strides in the last several years toward adopting EHRs, but even in the era of the HITECH Act and the “meaningful use” EHR Incentive Program, a large percentage of practices continue to drag their feet. Cost is certainly a factor for many practices, as is t....
CPT Updates for CY 2015
Author: Buttner, Patty
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2015
On January 1, 2015, the updates to the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) went into effect. The updates include 276 new codes, including three new Category II codes and 39 new Category III codes. There are a total of 129 revised codes and 137 deleted codes....
Conduct is Their Business
Author: Byrd, Katherine
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2001
Suppose you were asked to do something unethical on the job. What if you were asked by your supervisor to hide delinquent charts just prior to a Joint Commission survey? What would you do?
As a profession, HIM professionals understand our moral obligation to the patient to p....
HIPAA Breach Enforcement Roundup
Author: Cacciatore, Victoria; Downing, Katherine
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2014
Criminal attacks on healthcare systems have risen 100 percent since 2010, according to a recent Ponemon study.1 This makes it obvious that the privacy and security of patient health information is vulnerable and highly susceptible to data breach. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule became e....
Tighten the Bolts of Your ROI Processes
Author: Cacciatore, Victoria; Downing, Katherine
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2014
Release of information (ROI) has become a complex area for health information management (HIM) professionals. ROI staff and HIM management now must question and dissect every line on a request prior to release. Because of this, a quick reminder on some of the complex ROI risks is appropria....
Advancing HIIM Professionals in Informatics and Data Analytics
Author: Cain, Jeannine Pugh; Clack, Lesley; Flanigan, Jill; Houser, Shannon H.; Kadlec, Lesley; VanSlyke, Daniel; Zeglen, Margie
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2017
Health informatics and information management (HIIM) is a rapidly changing profession. Core competencies of fundamental AHIMA certifications, such as the RHIA or RHIT, create a strong foundation for pursuing employment in a variety of high-demand positions. Today’s fast-paced technology l....
Vision 2016 to Reality 2016: Building a Profession
Author: Calhoun, Mona; Rudman, William J.; Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2012
In collaboration with members and academic stakeholders, AHIMA proposes Reality 2016, a four-point plan for the future.
Making Health Information Exchange Work: HIOs Currently Not Ready to Support the Information Needs of a Reformed Healthcare System—But Small Changes Offer Big Outcomes
Author: Callan, Kathy; Fuller, Jan C.; Galterio, Louis; Just, Beth Haenke; Reich, Kimberly A. Baldwin-Stried ; Steigerwald, Christine; Turner-Combs, Mary Lou; Wolf, Sheldon H; Dooling, Julie A; Kirby, Annessa; Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2014
Editor’s note: This article is part two of a two-part series analyzing the current state of health information exchange organizations and their operational models.
The question facing the healthcare industry is “will health information exchange organizations (HIOs....
Tracking HIE’s Ever Evolving Operational Models: Emerging health information exchange market still sorting out its business and governance models
Author: Callan, Kathy; Fuller, Jan C.; Galterio, Louis; Just, Beth Haenke; Reich, Kimberly A. Baldwin-Stried ; Steigerwald, Christine; Turner-Combs, Mary Lou; Wolf, Sheldon H; Dooling, Julie A; Kirby, Annessa; Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2014
Editor’s note: This article is part one of a two-part series analyzing the current state of health information exchange organizations and their operational models.
Health information exchange (HIE) continues to be an embryonic domain—a swirling array of various pu....
Managing the Present on Admission Reporting Process (2016 update)
Author: Campbell, Angela; D'Amato, Cheryl; Rugg, Donna
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2016
Editor’s Note: This Practice Brief is an update of the March 2010 version, which replaced the November 2007 Practice Brief “Planning for Present on Admission.”
Section 5001(c) of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 requires hospitals to report patient primary and....
Beyond the Basics for Health Informatics Professionals - Retired
Author: Campbell, Angela; Houser, Shannon H.; Paulson, Dawn; Ryznar, Barbara; Smith, Clarice Pittillo; Woebkenberg, Jami; Hernandez, Sandra MSMIS, RHIA, CPHI, CCS, CHC; Pirie-St. Pierre, Mari RHIA, CPHI; Plimpton, Julie MSHI, RHIA, CPHI
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2018
Editor’s Note: This Practice Brief supersedes the September 2014 Practice Brief “Defining the Basics of Health Informatics for HIM Professionals.”
Data, data everywhere! We are living in the age of “Big Data” and healthcare informat....
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....
Language Barrier: Getting Past the Classifications and Terminologies Roadblock
Author: Campbell, Keith E.; Giannangelo, Kathy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2007
Health IT is bogged down in a quagmire of unaligned classification and terminology systems. New recommendations from AHIMA and AMIA help point to the way out.
The healthcare industry is looking to IT to reduce costs, assess quality of care, and deliver services more effici....
Using the C-CDA Standard to Meet Meaningful Use
Author: Campbell, Robert James
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2014
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2010, 35 million patients were discharged from non-federal short-stay hospitals in America.1 Vitally important not only to those discharges—but to every discharge that takes place—is whether important information about the pa....
The Five Rights of Clinical Decision Support: CDS Tools Helpful for Meeting Meaningful Use
Author: Campbell, Robert James
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2013
A 75-year-old man sits uncomfortably on an examination table as his physician informs him that he needs to get a colonoscopy. The patient, an ex-cop, barks at the physician, “Why after all these years do I need to get a colonoscopy?” The physician coolly responds, “With a....
Defining Health Informatics
Author: Campbell, Robert James
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2013
[dih-fahy-ning] [helth] [in-fer-mat-iks]
adjective, noun, noun
1. An educator’s in-depth look at what informatics is and what it can do for HIM professionals
In the movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen finds himself in a movie theater line in....
Getting to the Good Information: PHRs and Consumer Health Informatics
Author: Campbell, Robert James
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2005
Linking PHRs and provider Web sites can connect consumers to relevant and reliable health information online. HIM professionals can help.
Each day more and more consumers are using the Internet to locate Web-based healthcare information. This activity has led to the rise of a new field o....
Step Inside the Physician's Head: EHRs Can Enhance a Physician’s Cognitive Processing and Eliminate Diagnostic Errors, With Some HIM-led Changes
Author: Campbell, Robert James
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2013
Imagine having a friend who can identify the name of a song after hearing one or two notes, or an acquaintance who can identify a film from a single "still" frame taken from the movie. If this sounds familiar, maybe it's because of the way it reminds you of how a physician thinks about the....
Thinking Lean in Healthcare
Author: Campbell, Robert James
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2009
Lean thinking is the efficient use of staff, resources, and technology to provide the highest level of service possible to the ultimate healthcare customer: the patient.
In today’s volatile healthcare environment, health information managers are being asked to do more with less....
Being Mindful of Change: A Technique to Reduce Stress amid Change
Author: Campbell, Robert James; Brantley, Jeffrey
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2011
HIM professionals need more than tools to manage information, they need tools to help manage the stress and anxiety a state of constant change can bring. "Mindfulness" offers a way to reduce anxiety and keep focused.
During times of change, people may react with fear, ange....
Use Case: The Fulcrum of Standards Development
Author: Campbell, Susan E
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2016
Information for general health information managers about the standards development framework and process—with a focus on mobile health For Patient and Self Care
Opportunities for HIM in Revenue Cycle Management
Author: Campbell, Thea
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2003
The pressure on all healthcare organizations for improved financial performance continued to grow in 2003. Many healthcare organizations experienced a financial loss in the first quarter of 2003, and disproportionate reimbursement-to-expenditure ratios in healthcare are straining all organizat....
Tips for Breaking into the Health Information Management Industry - Retired
Author: Camp, Michelle; Comfort, Angie; Endicott, Melanie; Howard, Artis; Kozee, Renee; Munive, Roberta; Novelli, Staci
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2014
Whether it is a first job or a career change, finding that first health information management (HIM) job following graduation is one of the biggest challenges that new graduates face. While some may find that breaking into the HIM industry takes time and persistence, it is a career choice that....
Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections Starts with Data Collection
Author: Cange, John R
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2016
To prevent a problem, however, requires that you understand the potential causes of the problem—and this understanding requires data. A complete understanding requires a complete dataset. In the case of HAIs, the ideal dataset would contain data concerning every type of HAI from ever....
Transcription and EHRs: Benefits of a Blended Approach
Author: Cannon, Jay; Lucci, Susan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2010
Mixing transcription and templates for physician documentation offers a practical way forward in organizations transitioning to electronic records.
One of the biggest roadblocks to successful adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems concerns physician documentation; specifi....
Get Ready for the HIPAA Olympics
Author: Cannon, Jeanne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2003
HIPAA compliance might be one of the biggest challenges of the decade for covered entitiesand not only because of all the new requirements. Simply reading and interpreting the regulations has proven to be a monumental task. So how can a HIPAA team leader make staff enthusiastic about lea....
Quest for Managing Cyberthreats in Healthcare
Author: Carey, Susan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2017
So far 2017 is shaping up to be the year of fear in the realm of healthcare cybersecurity. There was a 61 percent increase in healthcare cyberattacks in 2016. This followed two years of steadily increasing cyberthreats in healthcare, including 93 major cyberattacks in 2016 resulting in com....
The Business Reality of HIM Outsourcing Explained
Author: Carey, Susan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2019
By Susan Carey, MHI, RHIT, PMP, FAHIMA
Outsourcing, whether delegating work to companies within the US or to other countries (offshore outsourcing), has become a strategic consideration and business model in many areas of the healthcare industry, including healthcare IT, health in....
Pain at the Printer: How To Stop HIM's Addiction To Printing Records From The EHR
Author: Carey, Susan; Beahan, Sally
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2016
Historically, health information management (HIM) staff has provided paper copies of medical records in response to authorized requests. No specialty patient education was needed because the paper record was essentially self-explanatory.
But with the ongoing industry trans....
Third-Party Data Disclosure Risk Management for Healthcare Organizations
Author: Carlson, April M; Goldman, Daniel JD; Milnes, Burke MPA; Otte, Kimberly JD; Schacht, Morgan JD
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
By April Carlson, MBA, HCISSP, CFE; Daniel Goldman, JD; Burke Milnes, MPA; Kimberly Otte, JD; and Morgan Schacht, JD
Hoping to balance the competing demands to share information while also protecting it, Mayo Clinic has developed a process to review disclosures of data that is ris....
Third-Party Data Disclosure Risk Management for Healthcare Organizations.
Author: Carlson, April M; Goldman, Daniel JD; Milnes, Burke MPA; Schacht, Morgan HCISSP, CFE; Otte, Kimberly JD
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
Structuring the Spoken Word: The Role of Transcription in Meaningful Use
Author: Carnrite, Michael; Sumner, Susan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
The latest data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report that Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) have reached more than $5 billion. Medical transcription has played a role in providers’ attainment of these incen....
Transcription Beyond Transcription: Health IT allows transcriptionists to assist with CDI, other HIM functions
Author: Carnrite, Michael; Sumner, Susan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2012
For decades Medical transcription has been an important fixture of the health information management (HIM) department. Compiling, managing, and retaining transcribed documents as a subset of the entire patient medical record is a foundational role for HIM professionals. And while the electron....
An ICD-10 Vendor Checklist: Planning Now Makes for a Smoother Transition
Author: Carolan, Katie
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2011
HIM professionals can help move their organizations' ICD-10-CM/PCS transitions off the back burner by working with their systems' vendors to establish upgrade schedules, training, and transition staffing.
The ramp-up to ICD-10-CM/PCS has been slow...at best. Focused on implement....
Coder Education: Will Demand, Will Deliver
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2004
As the bar rises for coding, healthcare organizations require more education from coders—and they are willing to deliver it, too.
The bar has always been high for mdical coding, but recent years have seen it boosted higher. As a result, healthcare organizations need more from code....
Busier than Ever: Privacy Officers One Year Later
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2004
The HIPAA privacy rule implementation is a year in the past. So what are privacy officers doing with all their spare time?
In the long, hectic months leading up to April 2003, privacy officers were preparing their organizations for the implementation of the HIPAA privacy rule. Not only w....
Health Information Confidentiality: a Moving Target
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2003
HIE at the State Level: a Role for States in Regional Data-Sharing Networks?
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2007
Leaders from HIEs forming at the state level talk about their organizations’ unique potential and unique challenges.
Just as healthcare is local, the solutions for sharing patient data are often local, also. However, there is growing interest in the role of networki....
Mining for Measures: NLP Technology Eases the Task of Reporting Quality Measures
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2009
Reporting quality measures may become an easier and more fruitful task as technology’s ability to glean data from physician documentation matures.
Healthcare organizations have been asked to report quality measures since the 1990s. The activity wen....
Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: Why HIM, IT Are Becoming Fast Friends
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2003
Spending a lot of time with the IT department lately? As HIM processes become automated and demand increasingly sophisticated technology, HIM professionals are making IT professionals their closest allies.
Whether youre acquiring an electronic master patient index, implementing a t....
Back to School: Advanced Degrees High on HIM Professionals' Education Lists
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2006
Changing practice and new opportunities are sending HIM professionals back to school in degree-granting programs. The benefits begin immediately.
They do it to meet the demands of a changing workplace, move up the management ladder, or pursue new avenues in the field. Some do it for pers....
Big Results at a Small Facility: 30-Year Veteran Leads Small Facility into e-HIM World
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2006
When Allyn Mavity, RHIT, became HIM director for Pattie A. Clay Regional Medical Center in Richmond, KY, 30 years ago, the notion that one day medical records would become electronic never entered her mind. But healthcare delivery and HIM have changed over the decades. When faced with a burgeon....
Short-term Forecast: Experts Speak up on ONC's RFI, RFPs, and the Year Ahead
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2005
David Brailer and industry experts comment on ONC’s busy year and tell the Journal what they expect in the one to come.
Late in 2004 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) requested input from the healthcare industry on how best to develop an....
Accreditation: the First Layer of the Quality Floor
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2002
Employers find data valuable, but still seek other measures. In this article, experts assess the uneasy relationship between the business community, healthcare organizations, and accreditation.
Stirring in the healthcare arena is an alphabet soup of accrediting bodies. Theres the....
E-Prescribing Efforts: Pilot Project Studies E-Prescribing Standards in Long-Term Care
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2007
E-prescribing has long been a dream for many healthcare organizations. However, a pilot study on e-prescribing's effects on long-term care shows that it can easily become a reality for the industry.
A pilot project to study the effects of e-prescrib....
From Figures to Facts: Data Quality Managers Emerge as Knowledge Leaders
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2002
Collecting the data is just the beginning. Data quality managers turn patient care data into the information needed for research, quality reviews, and future planning. And it's a job for which HIM professionals are ideally suited.
An obstetrics department resident wants to know how many p....
Lessons from Katrina: In the Hurricane's Wake, Lessons for Records Management
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2006
EHRs demonstrated their promise during Hurricane Katrina. But the storm's greatest lesson for HIM is the necessity of contingency planning for health information.
By now we've heard numerous stories about the piles of pulp that used to be patient medical records and the shelves of mildewe....
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