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Rare and Unlikely ICD-10 Codes are Needed
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....
Making Health Data Elegant
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....
Are You a Data Analyst and Don’t Know It?
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....
Taking a Second Look at Audit Data: How to Glean RAC Intelligence for Better HIM Performance
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....
Know Your Internal Data Sources
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....
Health IT Standards for Health Information Management Practices
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
AHIMA Comments to ONC and OCR Regarding Charges and Fees for Electronic Copies of Health Information
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.
Informatics and HIM: Enabling Semantic Interoperability and the Learning Health System
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....
Documentation and Coding in a Risk-based Environment: Obstacles to Be Aware Of
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....
DIY ICD-10 Cheat Sheet Basics
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....
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