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Trouble with DRGs: Part 2
Author: Mahoney, Robert J.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: March 2005
Last issue’s article presented some ways that DRG criteria redefine well-established clinical entities such as respiratory failure and sepsis. This article will discuss two other incompatibilities between DRG criteria and clinical practice: the clinical distinctions required by the DRG s....
Trouble with DRGs
Author: Mahoney, Robert J.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: February 2005
A major frustration among coding professionals, particularly in the inpatient setting, is the difficulty in translating physician documentation into diagnostic related group (DRG) data. Some hospitals have attempted to improve their coding effectiveness by establishing time-consuming physician....
Trouble with Audit Controls
Author: Amatayakul, Margret
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2004
The 2004 Phoenix Health System/HIMSS HIPAA compliance survey indicates that providers find audit controls the most difficult of the HIPAA security standards to implement.
While it is recognized that every organization must conduct a risk analysis to determine the systems or activities th....
Trend Watch: Coding for Nonphysician Services
Author: Hill, Emily
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2000
From physician assistants to nurse practitioners, the number of healthcare professionals offering patient care services has increased dramatically in recent years. With this increase comes a challenge to codersaccurately reporting the services provided by these prof....
Trends to Watch in Home Health Compliance
Author: Abraham, Prinny
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2001
The implementation of the Home Health Prospective Payment System (PPS) on October 1, 2001, has presented some unique compliance risks for HIM and billing managers. This article will briefly describe some of the compliance-related issues on the OIG's agenda that are of interest to HIM....
Trends in E-Discovery: Four Cases Provide a Glimpse of Healthcare Litigation’s Future
Author: Reich, Kimberly A. Baldwin-Stried
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2012
Paper-based and electronic record keeping systems each record valuable information about a patient's medical care. Electronic systems, however, capture something more-they record information about the record itself.
This "information about the information," called metadata, has caug....
Treating Physician Practices with a 5 Percent Solution
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2005
It’s an amazing challenge,” Suzanne Columbus admits. By 2008 the senior EHR implementation advisor must help at least 500 physician practices adopt health IT.
Columbus works at IPRO, New York State’s quality improvement organization (QIO). That puts her in the middl....
Treating LGBT Status as a Patient Safety Issue
Author: Deming, Sally; Dooling, Julie A; Kadlec, Lesley; Kirby, Annessa; Munns, Megan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2016
The 2015 Supreme Court decision requiring states to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize same sex marriage across state lines has widespread implications for health records management.1
This article will describe these implications and issu....
Treating Healthcare with Health "I"T
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
Patient-Centric Stage 2 Meaningful Use Measures Considered Treatment for Ailing US Health System
The US healthcare system is ill. Higher costs, sicker patients, and struggling providers are the symptoms of the disease that has sent industry stakeholders scrambling t....
Traumatic Brain Injury Coding in ICD-10-CM
Author: Rihanek, Theresa
Source: Journal of AHIMA | Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: June 2014
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has received considerable attention by the media recently, especially bringing attention to the prevalence of TBI in sports-related activities. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “A TBI is a bump, blow or jolt to the head o....
Transparency is a Top Priority, Says New CMS Chief Data Officer
Author: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Team
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2015
Niall Brennan, director of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics and the first chief data officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), recognizes the pivotal role that data and information should play in transforming healthcare.
Before Brennan took....
Translation Please: Mapping Translates Clinical Data between the Many Languages That Document It
Author: Foley, Margaret M.; Hall, Candace; Perron, Kathryn; D'Andrea, Rachael
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2007
Clinical mapping is essential because healthcare has no single medical terminology, making it difficult to understand and translate meanings across the different terminologies developed for different uses. Mapping allows the capture of data in the electronic health record (EHR) with the t....
Translating the Language of Security (HIPAA on the Job)
Author: Amatayakul, Margret
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2003
There were no big surprises in the final security rule. As promised, it has been reconciled with the privacy rule and most redundancies were removed. The security rule addresses only electronic protected health information (ePHI), though we must not forget the privacy rules mini-se....
Translating HIM into a Terminology Management Career
Author: Giannangelo, Kathy
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2007
Every profession has its own body of knowledge. This specialized knowledge leads the profession to create a language of its own, also.
The HIM profession has a distinct language and body of knowledge. Through them HIM professionals deliver a unique service to the healthcare industry.....
Transition Management: Striking a Balance
Author: Helbig, Susan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2003
Life in todays healthcare organizations is challenging for everyone involvedpatients, providers, third-party payers, vendors, and HIM professionals. As HIM professionals, we are constantly in a state of transition in some area of our practice, which can be both challenging and rewa....
Transitioning Transcriptionists
Author: Person, Carol; Terlep, Minnette
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2013
Facing a diminished role, transcriptionists at Sanford Health worked with the organization to move into open, and in-demand, coding roles
The need for transcription was diminishing at Sanford Health, and transcriptionists needed to make a choice-transition into another....
Transitioning to ICD-10 with a Multitude of Free Resources
Author: Endicott, Melanie
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: June 10, 2015
With just four months until the big implementation day, you are probably feeling one of two things… Relief that it’s finally here and you can begin putting into practice everything you’ve learned over the past 5-6 years of preparation, or panic because you still have much more to do to pre....
Transitioning to ICD-10-CM/PCS in the Classroom: Countdown to 2014
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2012
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Transitioning to ICD-10-CM/PCS— An Academic Timeline
Author: AHIMA ICD-10-CM/PCS Academic Transition Workgroup
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2009
The content in this practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only. More recent information is available here.
Transitioning to Electronic Clinical Quality Measures in the Informatics Era
Author: Houser, Shannon H.; Meadows, Jean M
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2017
There are a number of recent factors driving changes to how healthcare quality is being measured. First, there’s the rapid adoption of healthcare information technology (HIT) due to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) “meaningful use” Electronic Health Re....
Transitioning to CAC: The Skills and Tools Required to Work with Computer-assisted Coding
Author: Smith, Gail I.; Bronnert, June
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: July 2010
The coding world is not immune to technology advancements. Computer-assisted coding (CAC) technology is changing how the coding process is accomplished across all healthcare settings. CAC technology continues to integrate into a coding professional's daily life. This article focuses on the too....
Transitioning to a Data-Driven, Informatics-Oriented Department
Author: Dooling, Julie A; Houser, Shannon H.; Mikaelian, Raymound; Smith, Clarice Pittillo
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Are you a data-driven individual? Is your health information management (HIM) department focused on becoming data-driven or informatics-oriented?
Today’s data analytics and informatics-oriented organizations are the centerpiece of operations and strategic visioning&mda....
Transitioning ICD-10-CM/PCS Data Management Processes
Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on the Transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2009
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Transitioning from NwHIN Exchange to Healtheway
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann; Dooling, Julie A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2013
The Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) was originally defined as a “set of standards, services, and policies” by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in 2007. Further changes were established in February 2009 as a part of the Health Information....
Transitioning From E Codes in ICD-9-CM to V, W, X, Y Codes in ICD-10-CM
Author: Endicott, Melanie
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: August 13, 2014
ICD-9-CM includes a supplemental section, E codes, to describe the external causes of injuries and poisonings. These codes are secondary codes for use in any health care setting, which are used to provide data for injury research and evaluation of injury prevention strategies. E codes....
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