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Publication Date: January 2015

This Practice Brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

The role of the clinical documentation improvement (CDI) professional is ever-changing. When CDI programs first began in the late 1990s, the focus was almost....

Beyond Y2K: No Rest for the Weary

Author: Burghard, Cynthia; Duncan, Matt; Galimi, Joanne; Hieb, Barry; Young, Janice

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 1999

When the dust of Y2K has settled, what information systems projects will be next on the to-do list? The authors look at four trends you won't be able to ignore.
The turn of the century is only three months away. By now, it is to be hoped, most healthcare organizations (HCOs) have complet....

Managing Amendments in an HIE Environment

Author: Burns, Janelle; Costello, Stephanie; Lewis, Sharon; Meyer, Melanie; Panzarella, Deanna; Westhafer, Kathy J

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2018

Managing Amendments in an HIE Environment

The era of electronic health information has increased the complexity of managing amended protected health information (PHI) and the designated record set (DRS). Historically, changes had to be made to handwritten and transcribed reports and then co....

On the Line: Professional Practice Solutions

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2002

Q: A couple were on vacation in my city when the husband suddenly became ill and died in our facility. The wife requested copies of the record to take home with her. She had listed herself as next of kin. Was it correct to give her a copy of the record?

Q: I am a manager of several d....

Transforming Nursing through EHRs: An Overview of the TIGER Initiative

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....

Power of Patient Access

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2005

As health information moves online, a debate has developed about whether patient access to medical information improves outcomes and patient satisfaction. Two recent studies indicate that patient access can both boost satisfaction and empower patients to take greater control of their healthcar....

In Search of Document Imaging Best Practices

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2008

The number of healthcare providers implementing document imaging as a part of their electronic health record solution is on the rise. In order to help others navigate the process, the following HIM professionals offer their experiences in planning, selecting, and implementing document imaging....

On the Line: Professional Practice Solutions

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2003

When is it legal to disclose protected health information (PHI) to clergy?
Is faxing patient information legal under HIPAA?
Does HIPAA allow clinicians in our home health facility to pull their own records?
What is a "shadow record?"
Jill Burrington-Brown (jill.burrington-b....

Six Sigma Makes Sense as Quality Initiative

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2002

Is the Six Sigma business management system the “new kid on the block” in terms of quality initiatives? It may be new to healthcare, but it has been in place at various manufacturers, most notably Motorola, since the 1980s.

This article examines how Six Sigma is bein....

Handling Complaints and Mitigation

Publication Date: November 2003

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

Provider's Eye-View of PDAs

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2002

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are becoming a more common sight in healthcare settings, but how are providers using them? We asked three experts to describe their experiences.

K. Meg Morrison, MD, ABFP, is the associate director of the Mount Carmel Family Practice Residency in....

Dictating for Dollars: Is It for You?

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2004

Even with increasingly automated systems, the dictation of discharge summaries in a timely manner is still an issue. Some managers report that physicians are requesting hospitals provide them relief by allowing them to hire nurses, physician assistants, or HIM professionals to dictate the disc....

Perfecting the Communication Process

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2003

Most of us do not think of communication as a process but rather as a talent or ability that only a few people possess. But when communication is considered a process, anyone can be an effective communicator.

The work of Stanford University computer science professor Terry Wino....

Tips for Successful Teamwork

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2006

AHIMA’s e-HIM work groups have had great success in bringing together groups of HIM professionals to explore and create guidance on cutting-edge e-HIM practices and technology. These groups also teach us lessons about the factors of successful teamwork that we can apply to our own work si....

PHR Effect

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2005

As part of the Markle and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Connecting for Health collaborative, a working group on policies for electronic information sharing between doctors and patients was formed. The working group comprised 25 industry leaders, including AHIMA former past president Barb....

VA Puget Sound Reaps Benefits of Automation

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2003

What is it like to work in a fully automated healthcare system? As a visitor, I was doubly curious, because the topic of my management practicum in 1977 was preparing the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System MPI for computerization. This was a sophisticated practicum at the time bec....

Working Online: Hazards Ahead

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2005

HIM professionals know that as we move from paper to an electronic environment, our mission of privacy and security remains the same. As the medium changes, however, we must evaluate new threats to information.

The growth of the Internet has been proportionate to the growth of its at....

Consumer Empowerment: Four Projects from AHIC Point to a New Direction in Healthcare

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2006

Consumer empowerment in healthcare is quickly becoming a national focus as a way to target rising healthcare expenditures, improve patient safety, and better healthcare information availability. Why is this movement of interest to the HIM community? There is much for us to contribute to the is....

Disaster Planning for a Mass-casualty Event

Publication Date: November 2002

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

On the Line: Professional Practice Solutions (2/04)

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2004

Q: Can you explain the difference between the terms “addressable” and “required” as they are used in the final security rule?

Q: Our organization is building an electronic health record. What do we need to consider as we develop a printing policy?

J....

On the Line (June 2004)

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2004

Q: Why shouldn’t we document incidents or incident reports in the patient’s health record? Isn’t it a part of the documentation of the patient’s care? Don’t incident reports become evidence if there is legal action?

A: First, we should define “i....

On the Line: Professional Practice Solutions (5/03)

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2003

Q: What is an organized health care arrangement (OHCA) and what are its advantages?

Q: What is multi-factor authentication?

Jill Burrington-Brown (jill.burrington-brown@ahima.org) is an HIM practice manager at AHIMA.Article citation:
Burrington-Brown, Jill. "On the Line....

Sorting Out Employee Sanctions

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2003

Has your organization addressed sanctions related to privacy and security issues? Both the final privacy rule and final security rule address this issue. The privacy rule states that the covered entity must “have and apply appropriate sanctions against members of its workforce who fail to....

On the Line: Professional Practice Solutions

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2002

Q: I work in a clinic setting. An attorney has requested copies of a patient's entire record. The record includes reports dictated by one of the clinic physicians at a local hospital during the patient's hospitalization. The attorney has the patient's permission. Are we allowed under HIPAA to....

Practice Toolkit: Hospice

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2005

Hospice Challenges

When asked about challenges in HIM in the hospice care setting, Myers notes that the challenges in ensuring hospice records are complete and reflect the care given are very similar to those in other healthcare facilities. In fact, another member of the CoP, Susan Torzew....

Legal EHR FAQs

Source: AHIMA Q and A | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2007

As healthcare organizations implement electronic health records (EHRs), more are re-examining the make-up of their legal health record. They frequently have questions about producing information from EHRs as well as how organizations should begin to define their legal health records.
....

On the Line (November-December 2004)

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2004

Q:> As a covered entity, do I need to have satisfactory assurance (as required by HIPAA) that an individual has been notified when I am served with a search warrant for a patient's protected health information (PHI)?
Q: From a Washington State Community of Practice discussion thread: Wh....

Web-based System Improves Access

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2002

Does the idea of the paper medical record dying a natural death due to irrelevancy sound intriguing? This is the future of the paper medical record, according to Bruce Elkington, chief information officer of Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue, WA. The strategy at Overlake has been to....

Information Therapy: A New Interest for HIM

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2009

HIM professionals involved in patient advocacy and the personal health record will have an interest in information therapy: getting patients the information they need to better manage their health.

Information therapy (Ix) is of interest in health information management, particu....

Practical Disaster Planning for Healthcare Facilities

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2002

Disaster planning relies on imagining events that we hope and often believe will never happen. After the tragedies of September 11, however, imagining a large-scale disaster is no longer difficult and disaster planning has come to the fore. In this article, we look at several important lessons....

Regulations Governing Research (2003)

Publication Date: March 2003

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

Leaping Ahead with Patient Safety

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2002

These days Leapfrog is more than just a child’s game. Since 1998, the Leapfrog Group, made up of more than 90 Fortune 500 companies and other large private and public healthcare purchasers, has worked toward improving the safety of healthcare for US consumers.

A 1999 repor....

Using Procedure-based Risk Adjustment to Better Predict Outcomes

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2003

When an organization assesses its quality of care, applying benchmarks can be difficult when the population of the organization is different from the benchmarking organizations. How can an organization use benchmarking data that reflects the reality of its population?

“Pr....

Does the Privacy Rule Hinder Patient Care?

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2004

When covered entities implemented the HIPAA privacy rule more than a year ago, the intention was to strengthen patient privacy protection and improve provider access to information, thereby improving quality of care. At times that can be a difficult balancing act.

The mainstream and....

What's Your EHR IQ?

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2007

HIM is becoming more automated and electronic every year. The basic skill set of the HIM professional has changed dramatically. The acronyms abound, from HL7 and CCHIT to HIEs. It can be hard to keep up with all the latest developments. Test your EHR IQ by answering the following questions....

On the Line: Professional Practice Solutions (10/03)

Source: AHIMA Q and A | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2003

Q: Does the privacy rule allow us to release patient information over the telephone without authorization? How do I decide when I should ask for verification of a treatment relationship with the patient?

A: In the past, HIM professionals have carefully guarded the releasing of patient i....

Risk Assessment: Doing More With Less

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2003

In an October 2002 Journal article, eight out of 10 HIM managers interviewed mentioned trying to keep up with the workload with fewer resources as a top concern.1 In this time of rapid changes in healthcare, how do we decide what to prioritize when everything we do seems to be high priority? T....

The Arrest of a Nurse in Utah and Relevant Laws

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2018

By Jill Burrington-Brown, MS, RHIA, FAHIMA

On July 26, 2017, Alex Wubbels, a nurse in the burn unit at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, was arrested in an incident that has since been viewed widely on video captured from police body cameras. She refused to let a police phlebotomist....

Educating the Public about Personal Health Records

Author: Burrington-Brown, Jill; Friedman, Beth

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2005

AHIMA’s Community Education Campaign for personal health records (PHRs) is in full swing, and the response among AHIMA members has been enthusiastic. Demand for the campaign’s training programs has been so high that several states have waiting lists of those who want to be trained.....

Health Data Access, Use, and Control

Author: Burrington-Brown, Jill; Hjort, Beth M.; Washington, Lydia

Publication Date: May 2007

This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: Burrington-Brown, Jill; Rhodes, Harry B.

Publication Date: June 2002

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

How to Lead Your Organization in Compliance, Ethics, and Customer Service: Health Information Management Professionals Can Help Organizations Create a Culture of Compliance

Author: Burton, Ben

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2014

Today’s healthcare organizations must field a constant bombardment of both new and evolving regulations that dictate how, when, or where patients may receive care. The changing regulatory landscape—combined with the fact that the government is recovering $16 for every dollar spent to comb....

Making Amendments to Health Records (2017 Update)

Author: Burton, Ben; Downing, Katherine

Publication Date: April 2017

Editor’s Note: This Practice Brief update supplants part of the 2013 Practice Brief “Patient Access and Amendment to Health Records.”

Before April 2003, a patient’s legal right to amend his or her health records was limited to those patients treated at hea....

Life Cycle of a Project: How to Plan for Performance Improvements

Author: Burton, Lloyd R.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2003

Many HIM professionals are finding project management in their job descriptions. This excerpt from AHIMA’s textbook, Quality and Performance Improvement in Healthcare: A Tool for Programmed Learning, provides a closer look at the phases of a project.
When a performance improvement (P....

Reinventing CDI: Organizations Relaunching And Reworking Data Integrity Efforts, And Coding Roles, With Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2014

It’s a particularly busy night in the local hospital’s emergency department, which is running—as usual—slightly short-staffed. The on-call attending physician goes from room to room treating and diagnosing patients with typical emergency department maladies: influenza, fractured ankle, in....

Be e-Prepared: Tips for Tackling Ever-changing Electronic Audits, e-Discovery, and e-Measures

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2014

Don’t let the quiet before the storm fool you. Regulators might be hushed now, but compliance activity is expected to keep health information management (HIM) professionals on their toes throughout 2015. As electronic health record (EHR) implementation becomes more pervasive, so too does....

Healthcare DIY: Empowering Consumers to Optimize their Healthcare through Health Information

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2014

There’s no doubt that consumers of a certain age take comfort in going to the doctor, agreeing with their diagnosis, and following his or her treatment plan to the letter without doubts or hesitation. But this paternalistic approach to healthcare is starting to erode as younger gener....

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.....

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....

Keeping Information Clean: New Information Governance Efforts Challenge HIM to Sort Out Dirty Data

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2013

In a hurry to deliver two dozen artisanal doughnuts to your office one Monday morning, the bicycle delivery man takes a spill in rush hour traffic. One dozen glazed pastries tumble out of the bakery box onto the sidewalk, collecting some dirt but still looking edible (five second rule!). T....

Digging Out from Data Hoarding: Using Governance to Manage Information Assets and Prevent Digital Data Avalanches

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2014

If a brazen television show producer were looking to cash in on the popularity of shows about hoarders, observing a health information management (HIM) department could be a good place to start.

Stories about hoarding records abound. Some hospitals have reinforced their fl....

Adapt or Disappear: AHIMA’s Reality 2016 has a New Mission to Transform the HIM Workforce through Education—or Else

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2014

For the dinosaurs it was a giant meteor. For fax machines it was the invention of e-mail. And for HIM professionals who don’t adapt to new workforce needs, the paradigm shift that rocks their work roles will be electronic health records (EHRs).

While this may sound alar....

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....

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.

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....

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....

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....

Solving the Health IT Interoperability Quagmire

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2016

As the sun begins to set on the Obama administration, Vice President Joe Biden has been leveraging the weight of his office to speak out on the health IT interoperability quagmire in which the nation currently finds itself. During a speech at the industry’s Health Datapalooza in May,....

Cultivating Healthcare Information Governance: How to Grow Your Program Maturity

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2016

Buying tomatoes at the grocery store or farmer’s market will suffice for most cooks. For others, particularly those with a green thumb, growing their own is the only way to fulfill all their salsa and marinara sauce fantasies.

These devotees understand that a garden ca....

Don't Leave Money on the Table: Mastering MACRA, PQRS, and Value-Based Purchasing: How Quality Coding Impacts Quality Reporting

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2016

Whenever there’s a flashy new piece of consumer technology, there are always holdouts who insist on sticking with the old, more comfortable way of doing things. Consider a grammarian who rejects online dictionaries for a cumbersome hard-bound book. Or the road tripper who prefers their an....

"CDI: Miami" Hunts Down Documentation Offenders

Author: Butler, Mary

Publication Date: October 2015

The HIM Problem

To get physician buy-in on clinical documentation specificity, one provider formed an all-physician CDI team

The HIM Problem Solvers

Lorena Chicoye, MD, RPh, corporate medical director, managed care network development and medical....

ICD-10 Has Arrived

Author: Butler, Mary

Publication Date: October 2015

Ready or not, Judgment Day is here—and if you’re reading this, then you have reached the historic go-live of ICD-10-CM/PCS in one piece. For at least the next month and a half, however, it will be a “hurry up and wait” situation before providers can say with any co....

ICD-10 Two Weeks In: How’s it Going?

Author: Butler, Mary

Publication Date: October 2015

Two-plus weeks into the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS, the chaos predicted by many groups that protested the code sets’ implementation for years has not come to fruition. In fact, preliminary reports from providers, commercial payers, and coding consultants indicate quite the oppo....

DIY Privacy Risk Assessments

Author: Butler, Mary

Publication Date: November 2015

The HIM Problem

Completing regular privacy risk assessments is one of the most proactive ways of preventing healthcare privacy breaches. However, finding helpful tools for these assessments is hard to come by.

The HIM Problem Solver: Sharon Lewis, MBA, RHIA, CHPS, CP....

Access to Health Information: It Takes a Village

Author: Butler, Mary

Publication Date: December 2015

Obtaining access to one’s written or electronic medical records in a timely manner is one of the guarantees listed in AHIMA’s “Consumer Health Information Bill of Rights.” Yet, for one consumer, Amanda Michelle Jones, MS, AM, being on a first-name basis with medical records depa....

Patient "Privacy Numbers" Help Provider Share Info, Protect Privacy

Author: Butler, Mary

Publication Date: March 24, 2016

The HIM Problem

Nursing staff at NorthShore University Health System were worried about protecting patient privacy when family members called for status updates during surgical procedures and inpatient stays.

The HIM Problem Solver

Terri Bunsen, R....

Tips for Preventing and Responding to a Ransomware Attack

Author: Butler, Mary

Publication Date: April 01, 2016

As predicted, 2016 is proving to be the year of ransomware, with multiple reported incidents making news as we approach April. As they become startlingly more common, it’s important that HIM professionals be aware of how preventable they are, says Tom Walsh, CISSP, founder and managing partner of tw-Security. Just as with other types of data breaches, ransomware attacks are the result of human intervention—that’s also where they end.

Exploring Encryption and Standards in Release of Information

Author: Butler, Mary

Publication Date: January 2016

The HIM Problem

As providers and business associates bring themselves into compliance with the HITECH-HIPAA Final Rule, encrypting data in transmission and at rest can pose a challenge. Two ROI experts discuss encryption and the use of standards in privacy and security.....

Consensus-building, Project Plans Key to IG Implementation

Author: Butler, Mary

Publication Date: June 2015

Healthcare isn’t the only industry embarking on an information governance (IG) journey—plenty of other industries and organizations are too—and getting started is one of the hardest steps along the way. But developing a project plan for IG should is a powerful first step if done....

HIPAA on the Social Network—What Consumers Need to Know

Author: Butler, Mary

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.....

IG and 'Mission Control': Launching the Future of Healthcare

Author: Butler, Mary

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....

EHR Lessons from the Zoo

Author: Butler, Mary

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....

New ONC Chief Touts Importance of Standards Development Work

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2016

The new National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Vindell Washington, MD, plans to focus on some old issues for the healthcare industry—a lack of universal standards, limited interoperability, and the difficulty present for both providers and consumers trying to exchange and access hea....

Information Release to Patient Families and Caregivers: What Does HITECH/HIPAA Actually Say?

Author: Butler, Mary