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Historical Data Analysis of Hospital Discharges Related to the Amerithrax Attack in Florida
Author: Burke, Lauralyn K; Brown, C. Perry; Johnson, Tammie M
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: October 2016
Abstract
Interrupted time-series analysis (ITSA) can be used to identify, quantify, and evaluate the magnitude and direction of an event on the basis of time-series data. This study evaluates the impact of the bioterrorist anthrax attacks (“Amerithrax”) on hospital inpatient disch....
Facility Closure: How to Get In, Get Out, and Get What Is Important
Author: Lail, Pamela J; Laird, Sarah S; McCall, Kris; Naretto, Joe; York, April
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: October 2016
Abstract
This article examines the current state of affairs of the health information management role in facility closure as well as the impact on revenue cycle operations. Health information management professionals are uniquely positioned to assist an organization in closure eff....
Improving the Collection of Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data to Reduce Healthcare Disparities: A Case Study from an Academic Medical Center
Author: Lee, Wei-Chen; Veeranki, Sreenivas P; Serag, Hani; Eschbach, Karl; Smith, Kenneth D
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: October 2016
Abstract
Well-designed electronic health records (EHRs) must integrate a variety of accurate information to support efforts to improve quality of care, particularly equity-in-care initiatives. This case study provides insight into the challenges those initiatives may face in colle....
How to Break Into Analytics and Informatics
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Shawn Wells, RHIT, CHDA, manager of HIM data integrity at the University of Utah Healthcare, put himself on the health information management (HIM) career trajectory that HIM educators dream of using as an example.
Wells, who was also the first person in the state of Utah....
Data Mining a Breach’s Silver Lining: Analyze Breach Data to Improve Release of Information Performance in HIM
Author: Delahoussaye, Elizabeth A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Health information management (HIM) professionals can pull meaningful information from privacy and security breach data to evaluate release of information (ROI) processes, uncover workflow risks, and implement corrective measures. While large scale breaches impacting millions of patients m....
Tying Together CDI, ICD-10, and Healthcare Data Analytics: How CDI Programs and ICD-10 Are Impacting Data Analytics—and The Benefits Healthcare Organizations Are Seeing
Author: Bradley, Paul
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
A year in and ICD-10 is almost approaching the point of old news.
Of course—I’m kidding! Nothing could be further from the truth. From a data analytics perspective, the impact of ICD-10 is only beginning to be realized and understood.
For one, this first year....
Addressing Data, Information, and Record Quality Challenges Through Standards
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Data quality management has always been an area of focus for AHIMA. But the need for quality and integrity of data and information is greater than ever in all healthcare settings—especially with the growing adoption of health information technology (HIT), including electronic health....
Data Analytics: It’s Hip to be Square
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 21, 2016
Big data. Data explosion. Predictive analytics. Population health. Data management. Chronic disease monitoring. Natural language processing. As though healthcare was not struggling enough to keep up with acronyms, synonyms, abbreviations, and poorly defined buzzwords, we have entered the e....
As Medical Apps Increase, Litigation Issues Continue
Author: Hedges, Ron
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 20, 2016
In my last post of 2015 I tried to predict what types of challenges health information management (HIM) professionals might have to deal with in 2016 and beyond. One prediction involved technological innovation, as I surmised that we could “expect to see more and more ‘apps’ being off....
Yin and Yang: Data Governance and Information Governance
Author: Washington, Lydia
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 08, 2016
As we talk with healthcare organizations around the country about information governance (IG), many tell us they have embarked on a data governance (DG) program. Most of these data governance programs seem to be emanating from the IT area and are driven by the need to improve data quality....
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