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Using Information Governance Principles to Respond to Litigation
Author: Hedges, Ron
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2015
AHIMA's Information Governance Principles for Healthcare (IGPHC), published in late 2014, can be seen as a set of best practices for litigation. Attorneys and litigation support personnel would do well to keep the activities outlined in these principles in mind when responding to litigati....
Using HL7 Standards to Evaluate an EHR
Author: Quinsey, Carol Ann
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2006
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Using HIM Skills to Lead Enterprise-Wide Projects: An Expert Roundtable
Author: Rose, Angela Dinh
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2018
By Angela Rose, MHA, RHIA, CHPS, FAHIMA
From encoders to electronic health records (EHRs), health information management (HIM) professionals are often tasked with enterprise-wide project management including new technologies, changing workflows, and centralized operations. Information techn....
Using Ergonomics to Keep Injury in Check
Author: Smith, Cheryl M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2001
Office ergonomics are not new to the healthcare industry. Medical transcriptionists and data entry employees are just two groups of healthcare workers that are affected by ergonomics on a daily basis. With a growing number of healthcare organizations implementing the computerized pati....
Using Electronic Resources to Recruit and Hire Employees
Author: Picard, Angela
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 1999
Hiring the right employees for HIM jobs presents a unique challenge for employers. However, electronic resources offer more options for an employer's searching and recruiting efforts. With these tools, employers can go beyond the traditional methods of print advertising and/or retaining the se....
Using Document Imaging to Strengthen Revenue Cycle
Author: Clark, Jill S
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2009
For many organizations, document imaging is the first step toward implementing a fully electronic health record. Document imaging allows staff members across an organization to access electronic documents simultaneously. Three practitioners share their experiences on how this accessibility can....
Using Decision Trees to Explore EHR Options
Author: Wang, Tiankai; Biedermann, Sue E.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: April 04, 2011
In the August 2010 print edition, Tiankai Wang and Sue Biedermann applied the cost-benefit analysis model to EHR adoptions. Here the authors describe the decision tree model, another tool to aid in the complex considerations that come with choosing to implement—or delay implementing&....
Using Data to Survive RAC Attacks: Analyzing Audit Data Helps Mitigate Future RAC Risk
Author: Crump, Dawn
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2014
Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program began as a three-year, three-state pilot program in 2005 and went nationwide in 2009. The American Hospital Association (AHA) began tracking data collection in January 2010 and since then, according to AHA, the RAC program has recouped $2.....
Using Data to Improve Healthcare: Translating Publicly Available Data into Quality Improvement Initiatives
Author: Jenkins, Kristin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2012
Data are of no value unless they drive action. Action in healthcare has limited positive impact when it is uninformed or uncoordinated.
Publicly available data can help organizations improve healthcare quality. However, getting the most out of these data requires the right tools. A....
Using Data Provenance to Manage Patient-Generated Health Data
Author: Fountain, Vernessa
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2014
Healthcare providers are facing a swelling tide of patient-generated health data (PGHD). Growing mobile health technology and personal electronic health records are allowing consumers to become more involved not just in making appointments with physicians, but with tracking and reporting....
Using CPT Modifier -25 for Professional Billing
Author: Yoder, Lois M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2000
You may want to consider a focused review of how your practice assigns CPT modifier -25, "a significant, separately identifiable Evaluation & Management (E&M) service by the same physician on the same day of the procedure or other service."1 The Health Care Financing Admini....
Using Clinical Photos in EHRs
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2010
For most organizations, patient-identifiable source data include data from interpretations, summaries, or notes. These data are usually maintained within the originating department, separate from the HIM department and the health record, and sometimes in a different database. Examples incl....
Using CDI to Meet Federal Quality Measures
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2013
Clinical documentation is the foundation of every health record, specifically outlining the reasons for treatment and the quality of care provided to the patient. The lack of consistent and standard clinical content within the health record has been an ongoing challenge to health informati....
Using CDI Programs to Improve Acute Care Clinical Documentation in Preparation for ICD-10-CM/PCS (2014 update)
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: December 2014
Editor's note: This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here.
Using CDI Programs to Improve Acute Care Clinical Documentation in Preparation for ICD-10-CM/PCS (2013 update)
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2013
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Using CC/MCC Capture Rates as a Key Performance Indicator
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2019
The goal of this Practice Brief is to provide an explanation of the complication/comorbid condition and major complication/comorbid condition (CC/MCC) capture rate, review the calculation, and introduce the uses of this key performance indicator (KPI) by different functions of the mid-revenue c....
Using Benchmarking to Support Performance Improvement Efforts
Author: Berry, Tracy Bennett
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 1998
Successful benchmarking can create opportunities to improve performance through discovering best practices. The author offers an overview of benchmarking and best practices and how they apply to HIMand ways to get started on your own.
Are you looking for a way to jump....
Using Benchmarking for Performance Improvement
Author: Hughes, Gwen
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2003
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Using Ambulatory Data to Shape Planning
Author: Katzenberger, Philip
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2002
The information age inundates us with data. The challenge is transforming the data into information that can be used for healthcare planning. In general, obtaining the data is easy but creating information from it begins by asking a few questions:
Who will use this data?
How does t....
Using Aliases to Protect Privacy in Healthcare
Author: Barrett, Charlotte S; Beidler, Aurae; Davis, Nancy; Glondys, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2016
Developing policies and standard procedures when working with patient aliases is one way to both respect patient privacy but also ensure the accuracy and integrity of patient data.
As defined in AHIMA’s Pocket Glossary, an “alias” is “a name added to,....
US Health Information Knowledgebase: A Metadata Registry that Makes Sense of the Myriad Standards
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.; Scichilone, Rita A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2009
Current health information exchange (HIE) initiatives continue to develop data exchange models and adopt standards required to support them. Their progress is complicated by the independent nature of the initiatives and a lack of common agreement for data content.
Metadata registries....
User's Guide to AHIMA Coding Credentials
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Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2002
This year, AHIMA introduces a new coding credentialthe Certified Coding Associate (CCA). The credential is different from AHIMAs other coding credentialsthe Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) and the Certified Coding SpecialistPhysician-based (CCS-P)in some importan....
Use Data Mining Findings as a Tool to Support CDI Education
Author: Easterling, Sharon; Endicott, Melanie; Lojewski, Tedi; Maccariella-Hafey, Patricia C; Martin, Ginny
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2014
Clinical validation involves the clinical review of a case to determine whether or not the patient truly possesses the conditions documented in the health record. Productivity and coding quality often suffer when the health record lacks accurate documentation to support the claim, and cur....
Use Case: The Fulcrum of Standards Development
Author: Campbell, Susan E
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2016
Information for general health information managers about the standards development framework and process—with a focus on mobile health For Patient and Self Care
Use Cases Demonstrate Information Governance Best Practices
Author: AHIMA Staff
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 30, 2014
Suzanne Paone, MBA, DHA, and Dilhari DeAlmeida, PhD, RHIA, both professors at the University of Pittsburgh, presented a well-attended session on information governance (IG) Tuesday afternoon. The session, “Information Governance, Best Practices and Lessons Learned,” demonstrated how i....
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