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Venturing into Outpatient CDI: A Growing Trend
Author: Chenoweth, Ann
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2017
We see it everywhere: AHIMA is offering education programs to help their members embark on the outpatient clinical documentation improvement (CDI) journey. Consulting firms and technology companies are launching new services and solutions to support expansion of CDI programs to outpatient....
VA Puget Sound Reaps Benefits of Automation
Author: Burrington-Brown, Jill
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2003
What is it like to work in a fully automated healthcare system? As a visitor, I was doubly curious, because the topic of my management practicum in 1977 was preparing the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System MPI for computerization. This was a sophisticated practicum at the time bec....
VA Program Bridges Skills Gap, Improves Performance
Author: Zangl-Milbrand, Evelyn
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2001
When I was hired as the assistant director of the HIM section with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (GLAHS), I faced a major challenge. Congress had recently required the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to submit claims to third-party payer....
Vanishing Supervisor
Author: Brandt, Mary D.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2004
The bottom line is calling. Here’s how to decide if your HIM department has the right number of supervisors.
Down-sizing, right-sizing, streamlining. It doesn’t really matter what you call it, but it has had a significant impact on healthcare operations and staffing. Organizat....
Value of Project Management Expertise
Author: Hughes, Gwen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2000
Over the past 25 years, I've had the opportunity to facilitate a number of projects. For the most part, I considered managing them challenging, rewarding, and fun. However, as health enterprises grow more complex, organizations attempt to interface more and more software, and managers a....
Value of Personal Health Records: A Joint Position Statement for Consumers of Health Care
Author: AHIMA; American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
Source: AHIMA position statement | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2007
Position
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) advocate empowering individuals to manage their healthcare through the use of a personal health record (PHR). The PHR is a tool....
Value of Mentoring
Author: Buck, Stacie L; Lewis, Dwayne M; Bowen, Rita K.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2008
Mentoring is a vital way that professionals give back to the profession. Here, three distinguished AHIMA mentors explain their commitment to advancing the profession one person at a time.
Value of ICD-10 at the Point of Care
Author: Stearns, Michael
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 2015
The ICD-10-CM/PCS code set offers substantial clinical value to healthcare which includes new diagnoses and treatments. There has been a fair amount of emphasis on ICD-10’s value in clinical research and population health, but less on its value at the point of care—while a physician is car....
Value of HIM in Privacy and Security Compliance
Author: Amatayakul, Margret; Work, Mitch
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2007
Survey results illustrate HIM participation in compliance efforts and offer a look at common program components
HIM professionals have long been at the forefront of ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of health information. With the introduction of the HIPAA privacy and security rul....
Value-based Purchasing: What It Means for HIM Professionals
Author: Tully, Melinda; Perez, Mario A. III
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2009
HIM professionals understand how critical final coding accuracy is for acute care billing and reporting—they live and breathe it every day. Yet, over the past several years the importance of coded data has extended beyond acute care.
Coding now has an impact on everything from....
Validating MDS and OASIS Data with DAVE
Author: Dougherty, Michelle
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2004
In January 2004 the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new initiative to improve the accuracy and reliability of Minimum Data Set (MDS) data in long-term care. The Data Assessment and Verification program (DAVE) is a collaborative effort between multiple CMS program ar....
Utilizing the CMS Website for Additional Coding Direction
Author: DeVoe, Megan
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: July 2018
By Megan DeVoe, CCS
Editor’s Note: This is the final article in a three-part series on how to master the information available on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website.
Have you ever wondered how a code bec....
US Organizations Look Ahead
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2008
Transitioning to ICD-10-CM may seem like a distant problem. But SSM Integrated Health Technologies began its preparations about three years ago. Its reason is simple: “Something of this magnitude, you don’t want to be scurrying,” says Anne Stuckel, SSM’s manager of clini....
Using the SSN as a Patient Identifier
Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs)
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2006
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Using the C-CDA Standard to Meet Meaningful Use
Author: Campbell, Robert James
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2014
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2010, 35 million patients were discharged from non-federal short-stay hospitals in America.1 Vitally important not only to those discharges—but to every discharge that takes place—is whether important information about the pa....
Using Test Vignettes to Assess EHR Capabilities
Author: Gelzer, Reed D.; Trites, Patricia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2006
Test vignettes help evaluate how EHR products handle common documentation needs.
For those who are braving the EHR selection process, there is a great deal of guidance available on how to organize this difficult process. The steady advance of technical standards, functional standard....
Using Scenario Planning
Author: Fuller, Sandra R.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2000
Do you ever wish you had a crystal ball to see into the future? Are you frustrated when your boss can't give you a straight answer about what is going to happen? Will there be more budget cuts? Will your clinic merge with that integrated delivery system? Should you volunteer to take over regi....
Using Procedure-based Risk Adjustment to Better Predict Outcomes
Author: Burrington-Brown, Jill
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2003
When an organization assesses its quality of care, applying benchmarks can be difficult when the population of the organization is different from the benchmarking organizations. How can an organization use benchmarking data that reflects the reality of its population?
Pr....
Using Population Health, Inclusive HIM Practices to Better Treat LGBTQ Patients
Author: Dooling, Julie A; Kadlec, Lesley; Pruente, Megan; Ward, Maria; Woebkenberg, Jami; Butler-Henderson, Kerryn CHIA, FAHIMA; Ginn, Dustin MA, MHA, RHIA; Retallack, Donna RHIT; Young III, John RHIA, CHPS, CPHIMS, HCISPP
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2018
By Kerryn Butler-Henderson, CHIA, FAHIMA; Julie Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA; Dustin Ginn, MA, MHA, RHIA; Lesley Kadlec, MA, RHIA, CHDA; Megan Pruente, RHIA; Donna Retallack, RHIT; Maria Ward, MEd, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P; Jami Woebkenberg, MHIM, RHIA, CPHI; and....
Using Physician Profiling to Improve Documentation
Author: Hammen, Cheryl
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2001
In today’s competitive market, physician profiling has become a way to provide consumers with a "snapshot" of a physician. It is also used in determining physician participation in various managed care contracts through identification of variations in physician practice pa....
Using Our Influence to Lead for the Greater Good
Author: Kennedy, Angela
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2014
In a healthcare ecosystem where volume-based models are shifting to value-based ones, organizations will depend more and more on the use of informatics to drive decisions. Our success will depend on our ability to drill down to the level of detail required to support evidence-based medici....
Using OIG Guidances for Long-term Success
Author: Foltz, Darline A.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2001
Further, federal regulations and guidelines continue to be issued by Congress, the Health Care Financing Administration, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and state survey and Medicare agencies. One of the biggest challenges facing HIM professionals in LTC is keeping up with these cha....
Using Medical Scribes in a Physician Practice
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2012
With the push to develop and deploy electronic health records (EHRs) and the need for more detailed documentation, there is a growing concern in the medical community regarding the time expended to capture information-electronic or otherwise. The time providers spend during a patient visit capt....
Using Machine Learning to Increase Agility in HIM
Author: Monga, Kapila
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2017
As early as 1959 people have been defining what machine learning—a subfield of computer science—means. In that year Arthur Samuel, one of the pioneers of machine learning, said that machine learning is a science that gives “computers the ability to learn without being exp....
Using Information Governance to Avoid Data Breaches and Provide Cybersecurity
Author: , Gottehrer Gail; Hedges, Ron
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2019
By Gail Gottehrer, JD, and Ronald J. Hedges, JD
The seemingly daily announcements of cyberattacks and data breaches underscores the need for effective information governance (IG), particularly in the healthcare industry.
Consider a situation in which a healthcare pr....
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