Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA Advantage

Publication Date: August 2005

It wasn't too long ago that physicians could hire a file clerk to handle simple filing tasks and doctors themselves decided how patients could view their records. But today doctors' information needs are much more complex.
Just look at how many credentialed HIM professionals are bringing....

Author: Fraser, Greg

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes

Publication Date: July 2005

In 1968 Larry Weed, MD, introduced the idea that a complete and accurate problem list is an essential component of the medical record.1 The problem-oriented medical record (POMR), in which all data contained in the medical record can be linked to a list of problems, has been almost universally....

Author: Eisenhower, Cynthia; McElwee, Karen; Wargo, Christina; Woodruff, Tracy

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2005

Central to Geisinger Medical Center’s success with concurrent abstraction is wireless technology that enables registrars to work at the point of care.
Registry abstraction can have trouble keeping up with technology. Often located away from IT-intensive clinical departments and oper....

Author: Forgey, Danita; Vickrey, Jennifer

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2005

HIM, meet informatics. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Technology is introducing HIM to the science of informatics. It's a relationship with a promising future. Informatics concerns the development of new uses for technology and assesses technology's impact....

Author: Bowman, Sue E

Source: AHIMA report | Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: May 2005

Executive Summary


A standard electronic health record (EHR) and interoperable national health information infrastructure require the use of uniform health information standards, including a common medical language. Data must be collected and maintained in a standardized format, u....

Author: Fenton, Susan H.

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes

Publication Date: May 2005

Coded data is the basis for knowledge transfer in 21st-century healthcare. The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is often called the Rosetta stone of international terminologies used in healthcare worldwide.

The purpose of the UMLS is to “facilitate the development of com....

Author: Giannangelo, Kathy; Berkowitz, Lyle

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes

Publication Date: April 2005

With the advent of electronic health record (EHR) systems, IT solutions are needed to ease the recording of standard codes for clinical encounters. The basis for these products is a standard terminology, without which the full benefits of an EHR are unlikely to be realized. One expert notes th....

Author: Crane, Don; Solomon, Neil

Source: External web site

Publication Date: March 08, 2005

presentation at the HIT Summit West, San Francisco, CA

Author: Anderson, Holt

Source: External web site

Publication Date: March 07, 2005

presentation at the HIT Summit West, San Francisco, CA

Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2005

HIPAA has taught us that standardization is hard. When the act was signed into law in 1996, the optimists among us believed that within four years the healthcare industry would be using a variety of uniform national administrative transactions, most associated with what we now call the revenue....