Author: Journal of AHIMA Staff

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2015

This summer, if you listened very closely, you could almost hear a vast chorus of coders saying “I told you so,” after a freak accident alarmed local boaters in Southern California. On June 21, an over-excited dolphin accidentally jumped into a California family’s speed boat and broke both ankl....

Author: Moschel, Matthew

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2015

Too often, data analysts make life difficult for themselves. An analyst may produce code that is much longer and more complicated than it needs to be, causing a coworker to re-run code for several hours, not including the execute time. Why? These challenges stem from three root sources of....

Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2015

Do you analyze case mix? Have you been asked to run a report on patients seen in the emergency department with dog bites? Do you report monthly physician query trends? Have you ever been asked to “pull that information out of the EHR?” Do you know that revenue code 361 often re....

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....

Author: Dooling, Julie A; Overgaard, Shauna M

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: September 23, 2015

We can picture it now. Sitting at the desk, gazing at the computer screen as our minds are drawn into that special kind of bliss that can only be achieved through data of the highest integrity, relational consistency, and internal and external harmony. Yes, in those sweet moments all of th....

Author: Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)

Source: External healthcare industry report

Publication Date: September 18, 2015

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise HIT Standards for HIM Practices revision 1.1

Author: AHIMA Staff

Source: AHIMA testimony and comments

Publication Date: September 10, 2015

This letter is in response to the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) and the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) request for responses regarding the charges and fees for electronic copies of health information.

Author: Orlova, Anna

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2015

Medical informatics is a field formalized in the 1990s with the rise of the adoption of information technology in healthcare including electronic health records systems (EHRs), laboratory information management systems (LIMS), radiology systems, and other health information technology (HIT....

Author: Easterling, Sharon

Source: CodeWrite | AHIMA newsletter article

Publication Date: September 2015

With the implementation of the Value-Based Purchasing Model (VBP) and, more recently, statements in the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) fix, it remains clear that healthcare is going through a time of change. We must recognize risk in not only patient health management and outcomes, bu....

Author: Butler, Rhonda R.

Source: ICD-TEN Top Emerging News | AHIMA newsletter article

Publication Date: September 2015

For many physician specialties, a reasonable sized cheat sheet that contains the most common diagnosis codes used in your practice is quite doable. If you are a do-it-yourself (DIY) type and want to make your own cheat sheet, following is some information to get started. The number of IC....