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....

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....

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....

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 don’t 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....

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....

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....

Author: Zender, Anne

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2002

Is your hospital getting ready for the Joint Commission’s core measures project? Some hospitals are already transmitting the necessary data as part of the pilot project. Here’s how they are handling the challenges and deriving benefits.
If you’re an HIM director, you prob....

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....

Author: Zender, Anne

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2000

Every day, Margaret Neterer, RHIA, handles documentation for some seemingly unusual patients—cats, 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....

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....