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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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.

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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.

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....