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Taking the Lead in Information Governance
Author: Meehan, Ann M.
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: February 16, 2017
February is IG Month at AHIMA. Whether your organization has an information governance (IG) program in place, underway in implementation, or yet to be fully conceived, health information management (HIM) professionals play a vital role in IG program success. HIM profession....
Taking the Lead in Compliance Education
Author: Manning, Susan C.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2000
Voluntarily developed and implemented compliance programs for the healthcare industry are the continual goal of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services. The OIG recognizes that when a healthcare provider establishes an effective compliance plan....
Taking the Initiative with Nursing Home Quality
Author: Mitchell, Sue
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2003
When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its highlights of 2002, the listing of significant accomplishments included the departments efforts to improve quality of care. Discussion of quality improvement efforts focused on the departments initiatives in measurin....
Taking the Grow-Your-Own-Coder Movement to High School
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: October 2014
The HIM Problem
Rural hospitals in Kansas are trying to cut the cost of outsourcing coding by starting the credentialing process in local high schools.
The HIM Problem Solver
Sherry Farrell, MBA, RHIT, HIM coordinator at Seward County Community College/....
Taking The Doctoral Challenge: Educators Push HIM Professionals to Add PhD to Credentials
Author: Brodnik, Melanie S.; Valerius, Joanne D; Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2013
The push toward graduate education in health information management (HIM) is becoming a reality as more universities and colleges develop or explore launching HIM and informatics graduate curricula. Fundamental to offering these programs is the need for doctorally prepared HIM-credentialed....
Taking Stock: Reviewing AHIMA's 2006 Accomplishments to Date
Author: Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2006
It’s hard to believe that we’re midway through the calendar year. This is a good time to reflect on AHIMA’s year-to-date progress. Here are just a few of our key accomplishments so far. (To make it interesting, give yourself one point for each item you have already heard about....
Taking Stock of Advocacy Efforts: Tracking the Twists and Turns in Washington
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2007
The rapidly evolving healthcare environment continues to offer twists and turns in AHIMA’s pursuit of “quality healthcare through quality information.” Our advocacy efforts help keep that goal in sight. This article offers an overview of our progress so far this year.
Improving Health Da....
Taking Pages from Other Notebooks: What Lessons Can Chief Privacy Officers Learn from Other Industries?
Author: Hagland, Mark
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2002
HIM professionals are stepping up to the newly created role of privacy officer in many organizations. But privacy officers have been around for years in other industries. What can we learn from them about positioning this role?
Banking and financial services, telecommunications....
Taking Our Stand: AHIMA Stakes Four Key Issues
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2002
In May, AHIMAs Board of Directors approved two key issue statementsone on consistency of healthcare diagnostic and procedure coding, and a second on national healthcare information infrastructure (available at www.ahima.org). These umbrella statements are general and ap....
Taking Medical Records to the Bank
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2008
Banking health data like a financial transaction is the simplest solution to healthcare’s networking challenges says William Yasnoff, founder of the Health Record Banking Alliance.
There are a lot of plans for regional and, eventually, nationwide health information exchange, b....
Taking Information Governance from Concept to Reality
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: January 2015
The HIM Problem
AHIMA has been taking great strides in promoting information governance (IG) in healthcare, particularly with its development of the Information Governance Principles for Healthcare (IGPHC). But getting programs up and running has been a challenge for HIM....
Taking ICD-10-CM in Parts
Author: Steindel, Steven J
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: January 01, 2011
On October 1, 2013, healthcare providers will start reporting HIPAA claims using the ICD-10 counterparts to the current ICD-9 code sets. The vastly expanded code space of ICD-10-CM should prove familiar to most ICD-9-CM users and very approachable for new learners. With the exception....
Taking HIM’s Next Steps: Healthcare Industry Changes Require More of HIM Professionals
Author: Dunn, Rose T
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2011
Recently, I spoke at a CSA meeting and explored where we have been. The advances in HIM have been monumental. AHIMA has been working on a white paper to provide insight into HIM's future. This endeavor has been a struggle due to the changing dynamics of the HIM profession.
It could b....
Taking HIM Issues to the Hill: Members Advocate During Hill Day
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2005
By all accounts, AHIMA’s 2005 Capitol Hill Day was a success. Members came away from their meetings with representatives and staff having conveyed AHIMA’s messages on current legislation and explained our advocacy efforts. They covered the following four topics in their meetings.
Taking Electronic Document Management beyond the HIM Department
Author: Wieczorek, Michelle M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2004
Saint Vincent Health System’s HIM department checked its document imaging system into the emergency room. Together, the two departments saved nothing but time. The program’s success led to an enterprise-wide electronic document management system.
In 1988 Saint Vincent Health....
Taking Data to the Next Level
Author: Jeffries, Jane
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2003
When I hear statistics on mortality or morbidity, I automatically think of the methods used
to collect and tabulate the data and the hard work that goes on behind the scenes. Im glad to be a part of that process. Joyce Frazier, RHIA,
medical systems specialist,....
Taking Coding to the Next Level through Clinical Validation
Author: AHIMA Work Group
Source: Journal of AHIMA | AHIMA web extra
Publication Date: January 2014
Health information management (HIM) is a discipline that has rapidly evolved toward roles of increasing complexity and demand in recent years and the coding profession has been one area at the center of this growth. Even though the HIM profession is currently rethinking their coding and clinica....
Taking Coding to the Next Level: HIM’s Long Coding History Can Help Transform the Industry with ICD-10
Author: Cassidy, Bonnie S.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2011
How well the healthcare industry implements and executes the strategic and tactical tasks for the ICD-10 transformation will go a long way in determining the future state and success of the HIM profession. We must rise to the occasion!
HIM's long history of managing and implementing....
Taking Coding to the Clinical Floor
Author: Featheringham, Meg
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2008
As documentation specialist at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane, WA, Amy Gardner walks a tight rope between the HIM and clinical worlds. Gardner, RHIT, reviews charts on the cardiovascular floor of Deaconess, identifying gaps in documentation and querying physicians for follow-up.
Taking Charge of Your Career Through Self Exploration
Author: Patterson, Hal; Hjort, Beth M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2002
Very few professionals have considered a current career plan. In fact, some have probably spent more time planning parties and vacations than planning their careers, which is a sobering thought in a world of rapid change. Yet, to succeed in todays healthcare environment, HIM professional....
Taking Chances, Moving Forward
Author: Blumenthal, Jane E
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 1998
Kathleen H. Stanfield, RRA, was so nervous when she first took on her current job as health information systems coordinator at the Austin Diagnostic Medical Center (ADMC) in Texas that she felt physically ill. "It was like closing my eyes and jumping into a fire," she says of....
Taking a Stand on Sanctions
Author: Rulon, Vera
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: April 2009
The Journal of AHIMA kicks off our Health Information Privacy and Security Week series with a post from AHIMA president Vera Rulon, MS, RHIT, CCS, FAHIMA. Rulon is director of strategy and communications in the chief medical office of Pfizer, Inc.
So I get this communication that my c....
Taking a Second Look at Joint Commission Standards
Author: Clark, Jean S.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2002
HIM professionals are well aware of the challenge of meeting Joint Commission standards. Now, however, a recently established review committee has the opportunity to recommend changes to the standardsand may even be able to reduce the burden of compliance.
Thats the....
Taking a Second Look at Audit Data: How to Glean RAC Intelligence for Better HIM Performance
Author: Crump, Dawn; Tice, Carolyn
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
The mere mention of the words “payer audits” can send even the most confident and capable health information management (HIM) directors into downward spirals of frustration and overload. These feelings are well known to providers who have found themselves forced to tread the mu....
Taking a Lesson From Rosie
Author: Fuller, Barbara P.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2001
"We can do it!" declared the original Rosie the Riveter, an icon of World War II and a feature of AHIMA's current advertising campaign. Rosie symbolizes women's entry into the World War II work force as they filled the manpower gap created by men leaving for war. Rosie was a....
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