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URAC Offers Web Site Accreditation
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Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2001
The American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (URAC) released the nation's first independent accreditation program for health Web sites. The standards are based on ethical principles and designed for the accreditation of consumer-oriented, online health resources. URAC received input f....
Updating Organizational Policies and Procedures for Information Governance. Case Study #6: Enterprise Information Management at Children’s Health System of Texas
Author: Fahy, Kristi; Hermann, Michelle
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2017
Editor’s Note: This article is the sixth installment in an ongoing series highlighting information governance case studies.
AHIMA defines information governance (IG) as “an organization-wide framework for managing information throughout its life cycle and for supp....
Updating Long-Term Care’s Health IT Course: New Road Map Outlines Goals for the Next Three Years
Author: Dougherty, Michelle
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2008
Senior citizens consume more than fifty percent of healthcare services and dollars in the US, and the first baby boomers are only just beginning to enter the market.1 Both the opportunity and necessity for health IT in aging services has never been clearer.
Technology offers....
Update on the NHIN and RHIOs
Author: Mon, Donald T.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2005
In 2001 the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) began to explore the feasibility of a national health information infrastructure (NHII). Through an NHII, health information can be exchanged electronically, providing a major health information technology solution for incre....
Update on Standardized Nursing Data Sets and Terminologies
Author: Warren, Judith J.; Bakken, Suzanne
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: July 2002
HIM professionals can learn a lot from the nursing profession’s development of classification systems, terminology models, and quality indicators. Compared to other healthcare classification systems such as ICD-9-CM or CPT-IV, the nursing systems have not been widely used for reimbursemen....
Update on Joint Commission Core Measures
Author: Smith, Cheryl M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2001
When the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations initiated its ORYX project in 1997, its objective in collecting performance measurement data was to provide a more data-driven accreditation process. Hospitals were among the first Joint Commission-accredited heal....
Update on Business Partner/Associate Agreements (HIPAA on the Job)
Author: Cassidy, Bonnie S.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2000
If you're wondering how to interpret the proposed privacy and security rules related to HIPAA, you're not alone. The requirements of these rules—and the similarities and differences between them—are surrounded by confusion and controversy.
Having recently attended AHIMA's....
Update: Guidelines for Defining the Legal Health Record for Disclosure Purposes
Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on the Legal Health Record
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2005
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Updated Toolkit for Security Strategies
Author: Cooper, Ted
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2004
The first version of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute (CPRI) toolkit “Managing Information Security in Health Care” was published on the Web in May 1999 in response to the proposed HIPAA security and electronic signature standard of October 1998. The toolkit is intended....
Updated: How to Request Your Medical Records
Author: Dimick, Chris; Sheber, Sarah
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: March 01, 2017
Editor’s Note: This post was updated on March 1, 2017 to reflect changes in laws and regulations that have taken place since this content was originally posted on March 1, for.
If you’ve never requested your medical records from your doctor or hospital before, the....
Unwrapping Data Standards
Author: Rollins, Gina
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2007
Data content standards affect a wide range of day-to-day HIM work. Here’s what you need to know.
They may sound like they belong up in the IT stratosphere, but data content standards-or the lack of them-affect a wide range of day-to-day HIM work right here on....
Unveiling the Invisible Department: How One Director Increased HIM’s Visibility at Her Facility
Author: Torrance, Kelly
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2010
The HIM department can sometimes feel like the invisible department, because often no one acknowledges it until there is a problem. HIM professionals often bemoan the fact that they are not included in key organizational decisions like IT implementations that impact their departments. There ar....
Untangling Privacy
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2009
Health IT won’t advance far without resolving the complex issue of privacy protections. Can a complicated situation be teased apart thread by thread?
The debate on privacy has become very public.
Privacy advocates, health IT advocates, providers, HIM professionals, fe....
Untangling HIE: Patchwork Regulations, Standards Complicate Health Information Exchange
Author: Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2012
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program has dramatically increased the number of health information exchanges (HIEs) throughout the United States. An HIE is the exchange of health information electronically between providers and others with the same level of interoperability accor....
Unraveling the Data Set, an e-HIM Essential
Author: Giannangelo, Kathy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2007
There is a great deal of talk about healthcare data and its potential uses once providers have implemented an EHR system. Without question, an EHR will collect more data in terms of volume. It will also, through standard clinical terminologies, capture a more granular level of detail. Th....
Unlocking the Benefits of ICD-10 through Data Analytics
Author: Ewing, Crystal
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2016
The reality of the ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation and the fact that it was, by all measures, a success, is the payoff of years of hard work. It’s the product of lessons learned from the implementation of 5010 and the outcome of diligence on the part of healthcare professionals, providers, a....
Unlocking and Sharing Behavioral Health Records: Movement Emerges to Exchange Sensitive Records through HIEs
Author: Lardiere, Michael R
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2013
Sharing behavioral health and physical health information is a growing concern for the US healthcare system. Sharing the history and status of patients’ symptoms and progress-or lack of progress-between and among physical health and behavioral health providers is essential for assist....
Universal View of Data
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2002
"You don't need to be a computer programmer to do [data management]. You need to know how to manage data. The rest will fall into place." --Lorraine Tully, director of HIM, HealthMarket, on getting started in data management
Understanding the big picture: that's what Lorraine Tully, RHIT, beli....
Universal Adapters: Terminology Standards Enable Meaningful Data Exchange
Author: Cook, Jane; Foley, Margaret M.; Giannangelo, Kathy; Paterno, Marilyn D.; Scichilone, Rita A; Schwarz, Kathleen M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2009
Standardized clinical terminologies are critical connectors that allow systems to exchange health information.
In the winter of 1904 a major fire broke out in Baltimore, MD. The resulting damage—an entire swath of the downtown destroyed—was blamed largely on a lack of uni....
Uniting Security Forces Against Risk
Author: Wagner, Lew
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2002
Threats to your facility’s physical and information security become more complex all the time. To create a truly effective security program, consider developing an integrated security program that encompasses both traditional and information technology protection. The result? A strong, st....
Uniting HIM and IT: Lessons Learned Offer Tangible Takeaways to Bridge the Disconnect and Bring Departments Together
Author: Haugen, Mary Beth; Dascher, Paula; Manor, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2017
Editor’s Note: This article is a follow-up to the piece “Bridging HIM’s Disconnect with IT” that appeared in the March 2016 Journal of AHIMA.
As healthcare organizations move toward value-based models, health information management (HIM) and informatio....
United under HIPAA: a Comparison of Arrangements and Agreements (HIPAA on the Job)
Author: Amatayakul, Margret
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2002
The HIPAA transactions, security, and privacy regulations identify five agreements and relationships that can be established between healthcare entities to achieve economies of scale and lessen HIPAA's administrative burden. They are: affiliated covered entity (ACE)
business associa....
United RECs of America
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
Most of the 60 regional extension centers have officially launched operations and begun helping providers implement health IT.
The RECs were created under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which provided $642 million in grants for the centers' first two....
Unique Patient Identifiers -- What Are the Options?
Author: Appavu, Soloman I.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 1999
HIPAA has brought patient identifiers into the spotlight. But what's the best option? The author of a national study offers an overview.
Envision all of the players in the healthcare system—patients, providers, health plans, and payers. Now, envision all of the day-to-day processes t....
Unintended Consequences: Identifying and Mitigating Unanticipated Issues in EHR Use
Author: Rollins, Genna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2012
A federal guide alerts users to unanticipated and undesired effects of EHR use and offers approaches to avoiding and remedying them.
Electronic health records hold the promise of better care coordination, improved patient safety, and more accurate documentation and coding; howev....
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