Author: Overgaard, Shauna M; Dooling, Julie A

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: August 27, 2015

Healthcare payments are shifting and the industry is in a rapid state of change. Efficiencies to render patient care as a top priority are crucial. Measuring brings efficiencies and meaning to a patient population.

High-Level Measurements


Population-based statistics....

Author: Bailey-Woods, Linda; Munns, Megan; Orlova, Anna; Rhodes, Harry B.; Warner, Diana

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2015

Interoperability of health information systems will enable clinicians to communicate with their patients and each other using information and communication technology to enable safer, effective, and efficient care, and improve population health. Health information technology (HIT) standard....

Author: Head, Erin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2015

For many decades, health information management (HIM) departments have been the hub for information collected within healthcare organizations. HIM has frequently been referred to as the “medical records department” due to the perceived idea that the department’s main tasks are receiving a....

Author: Nelson, Michael L

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2015

Accurate patient data matching is a critical patient safety issue. Overlays that comingle the medical information of two or more people may lead to disastrous adverse medical events and duplicate medical records, which may be fragmented and incomplete and can limit the effectiveness of tr....

Author: Haugen, Mary Beth

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2015

Data integrity is at risk any time inaccurate information is entered into the patient health record, starting with the creation of the encounter in the registration process and continuing through the entire information lifecycle. Errors in the patient record can affect patient safety, cli....

Author: AHIMA Staff

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2015

It is the matchup of the century—the towering hulk of healthcare’s Big Data versus the super computer known as Watson. Will Watson be able to take on this lumbering, untamed mass of information and whip it into submission?


One year ago, the Journal of AHIMA reported on the IBM su....

Author: Kostick, Karen M.; Sanvik, Gina

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2015

All coding professionals require the right clinical documentation at the right time in order to assign an accurate code. This article reviews just what that requirement entails for ICD-10-PCS coding.

ICD-10-PCS Scope of Work


On October 1, 2015, hospital inpatient pr....

Author: Datskovsky, Galina; Hedges, Ron; Empel, Sofia; Washington, Lydia

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2015

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of four articles that discuss the eight Information Governance Principles for Healthcare.


AHIMA’s new Information Governance Principles for Healthcare (IGPHC) provide a framework for healthcare organizations to leverage informati....

Author: Orlova, Anna

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2015

With the growing adoption of health information technology (HIT), interoperability—or the sharing of data between systems—has become a topic that everybody in healthcare is talking about. Interoperability impacts every stakeholder in healthcare with each individual party involv....

Author: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Team

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2015

Niall Brennan, director of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics and the first chief data officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), recognizes the pivotal role that data and information should play in transforming healthcare.


Before Brennan took....