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Ready for the EHR?: a New Survey Measures EHR Implementation and Individual Readiness
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2005
The electronic health record (EHR) is making inroads in healthcare organizations, and many HIM professionals say they are ready. More than 40 percent of respondents to a new survey indicate that their organizations are extensively or partially implementing an EHR, and almost 70 percent say the....
Next Steps? First Steps? Getting a Grip on HIPAA Security Standards
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2000
How ready are healthcare organizations to put the proposed security regulations connected to HIPAA into effect? What are the next steps-or, in some cases, first steps-HIM professionals should take? Our panel of experts offers some advice.
So you thought preparing for Y2K was a lot o....
Dual Accreditation Presents Challenges, Opportunities
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2000
While most HIM professionals are acquainted with participating in a facility's Joint Commission accreditation processes, a small but significant number work in facilities that are also accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). Though the organizations have....
Facilitator No Stranger to Cyberspace
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2002
Privacy and security are big issues for consumers. Many e-health sites are not covered by HIPAA, so even though they think they dont need privacy and security, we need to make them aware of it. We need to work with organizations to make sure data collected by health sites or by In....
Great Expectations: Program Director Provides Education for Tomorrow's HIM Professionals
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2007
When Abby Cooper, MHIM, RHIA, became a college instructor, she expected to teach, grade, and advise students. What she didn’t expect was that for many students, she’d come to represent the HIM profession. “You have to spend a lot of time selling the program and the profession,” says Coope....
Driving Decisions with Data: In an EHR Implementation, Ensuring Data Integrity is High on the To-do List
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2004
It's important to have a network of colleagues at different organizations -- to have people you can call and ask, 'How are you doing this?'" Julie Bryant
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when Julie Bryant, RHIA, was in college, she started to hear the buzz about....
Quality at the Core
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2002
Is your hospital getting ready for the Joint Commissions core measures project? Some hospitals are already transmitting the necessary data as part of the pilot project. Heres how they are handling the challenges and deriving benefits.
If youre an HIM director, you prob....
Learning by Teaching: Security Manager Finds Teaching Good Fit
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2004
As an information security manager, Karen Czirr, MS, RHIA, CHP, learns by doing. She also learns by teaching.
Czirr, who works at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, welcomes the chance to improve her knowledge, and she says teaching others is a great way....
Managing the Furry (or Feathered) Patient Record
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2000
Every day, Margaret Neterer, RHIA, handles documentation for some seemingly unusual patientscats, dogs, birds, or turtles, for example.
But Neterer, who is manager of the clinical information service at the small animal hospital at Michigan State University's College o....
It's All About Privacy
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2001
When users of the Medscape or CBS HealthWatch Web sites have questions or concerns about their privacy, they can send e-mail to an address like privacy@medscapeinc.com. At the message's receiving end is likely to be Lynne Shoemaker, RHIA.
"I'm a clearinghouse for questio....
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