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Understanding Different Healthcare Legal Documents
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2012
Managing healthcare issues today places many HIM professionals in the role of consumer educator. This is especially true when consumers are coping with end-of-life issues. Legal documents are imperative for determining a patient's treatment care wishes, managing requests for information, and f....
Understanding Diabetes Mellitus
Author: Huff, Garry L.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: November 2003
Diabetes mellitus represents a group of disorders that are characterized by hyperglycemia. The clinical and ICD-9-CM classification of diabetes mellitus have evolved as understanding of insulin physiology has expanded. This article will explain diabetes mellitus and its ICD-9-CM classification....
Understanding Cybersecurity: A Primer for HIM Professionals - Retired
Author: Dill, Mark W; Lucci, Susan; Walsh, Tom
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2016
As protectors of patient health records, health information management (HIM) professionals are developing a keener understanding of the broad topic of cybersecurity and are becoming actively involved in organizational cybersecurity efforts. Information technology (IT) departments typically are....
Understanding CPR Architecture: An HIM Professional's Guide
Author: Mon, Donald T.; Nunn, Sandra L.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 1999
The continued evolution of the CPR offers numerous career opportunities for HIM professionals. But a knowledge and understanding of the fundamental concepts is critical for those who would take advantage of these opportunities. The authors offer an overview of the differences and interaction....
Understanding Chain of Trust and Business Partner Agreements (HIPAA on the Job)
Author: Cassidy, Bonnie S.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2000
Confused about the differences between privacy and security? You’re not alone. Combine these with the jargon-laden chain of trust and business partner agreement issues, and a whole new set of questions about HIPAA implementation emerges.
Privacy, pursuant to HIPAA, addresses the righ....
Understanding CDI Metrics
Author: Combs, Tammy
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: February 24, 2016
Understanding clinical documentation improvement (CDI) metrics can be confusing, especially when you first start reviewing them.
Let’s dive a little deeper into the topic and take a closer look at some frequently reported CDI metrics and evaluate how these measures can reflect the....
Understand CMS Outpatient Hospital Edits in 10 Minutes or Less
Author: DeVoe, Megan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2018
By Megan DeVoe, CCS
Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a three-part series on how to master the information available on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website.
When coding foR outpatient hosp....
Uncovering the Relationship between IRBs and the HIPAA Privacy Rule
Author: Gilles, Kathy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2004
More than 18 months after the HIPAA privacy rule compliance date, there is still one area that remains problematic for many covered entities—the use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI) for research purposes. One point of significant confusion is the relationship between....
Uncertain Benefits, Certain Difficulties Inform Disclosure Rule
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: June 21, 2011
Within the recently proposed rule on accounting of disclosure, the Office for Civil Rights summarizes a 2010 request for information it issued to the providers, payers, and consumer groups. The feedback it received offers an insight into provider and consumer exper....
Tying Together CDI, ICD-10, and Healthcare Data Analytics: How CDI Programs and ICD-10 Are Impacting Data Analytics—and The Benefits Healthcare Organizations Are Seeing
Author: Bradley, Paul
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
A year in and ICD-10 is almost approaching the point of old news.
Of course—I’m kidding! Nothing could be further from the truth. From a data analytics perspective, the impact of ICD-10 is only beginning to be realized and understood.
For one, this first year....
Two Viewpoints: The Preparation of a Request for Proposal
Author: Kuyper, Lynda A.; Shanks, Corrine K.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 1988
Two Golden Opportunities
Author: Fuller, Barbara P.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2001
What an exciting time for our profession! As the leaders in HIM, we are being recognized as valuable resources in analyzing and assessing the recently published standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information. When these regulations were announced by President Cl....
Two Educational Approaches to Ensuring Data Quality
Author: White, Susan E; Nunn, Sandra L.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2014
The health information management (HIM) field is growing and changing at a swift pace, with HIM professionals having to navigate value-based purchasing, quality metrics, health disparity and population health studies, and a never-ending stream of Big Data. As experienced HIM professionals....
Two Challenges for Here and Now: Grappling with RAC and POA Requirements
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2008
This column often deals with AHIMA’s or the profession’s larger goals and objectives. Important, yes, but often not what HIM professionals are involved with on a day-to-day basis. This article addresses two significant issues that HIM professionals are facing on the job right now.....
Turning Your HIM Expertise Into a Resource
Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2017
In 1941, author Edna Huffman, writing about the management and storage of medical records, introduced readers to “the newest development in storage methods and the method that will conserve the greatest amount of space, known as microphotography.” She described how medical reco....
Turning Production Data into Management Tools
Author: Dunn, Rose T
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2002
Staring down another backlog in your HIM department? Use routine data collection activities to strengthen your case for additional staff, increased budget dollars, or an incentive program.
Daily challenges in an HIM department include increasing workloads and accumulating backlogs withou....
Turning Old Technology into New Systems
Author: Anderson, Ellen Miller
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2001
The need for updated technology rarely coincides with enough funds to purchase it. However, disparate technologies can be combined to meet information system needs without a major capital outlay. At Home Care Services, part of Group Health Cooperative (GHC) in Seattle, we created the On Call P....
Turning Grads into Employees. Intern Program Delivers What Grads and Employers Both Want: Experience
Author: Featheringham, Meg
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2005
If HIM graduates are in such demand, why is it so hard for them to find their first jobs? The reason, of course, is experience. Most employers require it, but few have the resources to develop it. At a time when employers seem to be finding as many challenges hiring as graduates find in being....
Turning a Physician Practice on its Head: Kaiser Leader Reveals the Challenges, Benefits of EHR
Author: Rollins, Gina
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2003
Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit health maintenance organization (HMO) in the US, is on the forefront of developing and implementing an electronic health record (EHR). The effort involves both the Kaiser health plan and the Permanente Federation, which is the partnership among the Perm....
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....
Turkey, Stuffing, and ICD-10-CM
Author: Endicott, Melanie
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: November 15, 2013
With the holidays coming up, it’s time to have a little fun with ICD-10-CM codes. The following tells the story of a Thanksgiving full of mishaps… if your ICD-10-CM skills are up to the challenge.
Josie and Tom had a wonderful Thanksgiving meal with turkey, stuffing, r....
Truth about Computer-Assisted Coding: A Consultant, HIM Professional, and Vendor Weigh in on the Real CAC Impact
Author: Crawford, Mark
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2013
HIM professionals have been looking for some truth and straight talk on computer-assisted coding (CAC). The technology has been billed as everything from the savior of coding-based bottom lines due to ICD-10-CM/PCS (ICD-10) to the automated destroyer of human coding jobs. As the technology....
Trusting PHRs: The Standards That Protect the Security and Confidentiality of PHR-stored PHI
Author: Pringle, Simone L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2010
To date most health information exchanges (HIEs) are sharing only institutional patient health data among providers, insurers, and pharmacies, and a minority of electronic health records (EHRs) support standards-based access to and from untethered personal health records (PHRs). However, there....
Trusted Health IT and IT-as-a-Service: A Prescription for Change
Author: Katz, Roberta
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: August 2014
Healthcare organizations are increasingly reliant on electronic health records (EHR) for patient care collaboration with trusted IT becoming a key requirement to share protected health information (PHI).
Trusted IT solutions for Health Information Management (HIM) t....
Trust but Verify: Safeguards in Contracting for Outsourced Coding Services
Author: Sett, Ajit; Hickman, George T; Karban, Karen M
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2014
Coding is an essential task in a care delivery organization (CDO) and represents the convergence of certain clinical and financial processes. It is the culmination of the documentation and codification of provided patient care services and the identification of associated charges and clai....
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