Author: Dimick, Chris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2012

It has been a decade since the first privacy officers took their jobs in response to the HIPAA privacy rule. A slew of changes since then have added more responsibility, required more skills, and demanded more time of them than anyone could have imagined.

When Nancy Davis, R....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2012

There are high expectations for electronic health records (EHRs) to improve patient healthcare. However, as the industry implements EHRs, it is recognizing that adoption and implementation alone do not guarantee data integrity. In this rapidly changing environment, the use of the copy functiona....

Author: Dimick, Chris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2012

The HIPAA transaction standards-meant to streamline financial and administrative transactions-have instead devolved into a kind of free-for-all. Now the first operating rules are in hand to standardize use of the standards and gain the efficiencies originally intended.

When it....

Author: Viola, Allison F.; Mookencherry, Shefali

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2012

The healthcare industry will find out soon if ONC intends to include metadata requirements in stage 2 of the meaningful use program. Many feel it is too soon. But given metadata's potential to support health information exchange, the expanded and standardized use of metadata tagging....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2012

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: Dimick, Chris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2012

A forest of issues crowds the 2012 HIM landscape. AHIMA practice experts offer a guide for the year ahead.

The seedlings of change planted in 2009 by the announcement of the ICD-10 transition and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have sprouted into a towering forest of....

Author: Briggs, Mark

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Background


An initiative developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Direct Project was designed to help healthcare providers, departments of health, and payers nationwide communicate sec....

Author: Dooling, Julie A; Downing, Kathy

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009, Stage I meaningful use incentives focus on electronically capturing health information in a structured format. While scanned images do not meet these requirements, electronic document management syst....

Author: Butler, Rhonda R.

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Introduction


The ICD-10 General Equivalence Mappings, now known simply as “the GEMs,” went virtually unnoticed when they were first released in 2005 and ICD-10 implementation faced an uncertain future. They have since been called everything from “totally awesome....

Author: Culver, Devore

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Background

The federal HITECH Act sought to improve health care delivery and patient care through an investment of over $40 billion in health information technology. Combined, the various HITECH programs are intended to build the foundation for every American to benefit from an electronic....