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IFHIMA Prepares for 19th Congress as Health Information Goes Global and Digital
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Butler-Henderson, Kerryn CHIA, FAHIMA; MacDonald, Marci; Skurka, Margaret A.; Lewis, Carol; AlBishi, Hussein; Axford, Kylie
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2019
By Lorraine Fernandes, RHIA; Kerryn Butler Henderson, PhD; Carol Lewis, MPH, RHIA; Marci MacDonald, CHIM; Margaret Skurka, MS, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA; Hussein AlBishi; and Kylie Axford
Healthcare, like manY other segments of society and the economy, has become truly global.
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Applying Innovation to the Patient Identification Challenge
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Burke, Jim; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2017
Healthcare transformation activities involving data analytics, population health, disease registries, and consumer engagement have raised the stakes for stronger and real-time, or near real-time, patient identification and record matching.
Yet many organizations have hundred....
Losing the Match Game: Study Reveals Gaps in HIM’s Patient Identity Integrity Practices
Author: Dooling, Julie A; Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Kirby, Annessa; Kadlec, Lesley; Landsbach, Grant; Lusk, Katherine; Munns, Megan; Noreen, Neysa; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
In healthcare, matching patients accurately to their medical history across multiple care sites and among various sources of data has become increasingly important as healthcare data is shared across platforms. Additionally, as clinicians need to interact with third parties and provide car....
IFHIMA Organizing a World of HIM: What to Expect Out of the 2016 IFHIMA Congress
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Haendel, Angelika; MacDonald, Marci; Nicholson, Lorraine; Skurka, Margaret A.; Yokobori, Yukiko
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2016
The familiar phrase “think globally, act locally” urges people to consider the health of the entire planet and to take action in their own communities and cities. The rapid spread of epidemics such as Avian flu, Ebola, HIV, and the latest threat of Zika to pregnant women and th....
Measuring Success with Accurate Patient Identification
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; O'Connor, Michele
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: March 18, 2016
Healthcare is transforming at a rate not previously seen. Many different levers are at work in this transformation, applied either in parallel or jointly. This transformation is occurring with the goal of advancing the IHI Triple Aim—improve care and outcomes, reduce costs, improve health.....
Survey: Patient Matching Problems Routine in Healthcare
Author: Dooling, Julie A; Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Kirby, Annessa; Landsbach, Grant; Lusk, Katherine; Munns, Megan; Noreen, Neysa; O'Connor, Michele; Patten, Melinda
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: January 06, 2016
A recent survey with AHIMA members revealed that over half of HIM professionals routinely work on mitigating possible patient record duplicates at their facility, and of those 72 percent work on mitigating duplicate records weekly. Contributing to the issue, less than half (47 percent) of....
Accurate Patient Identification: a Global Challenge
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: May 2015
Abstract
Patient identification and patient matching have long been a challenge in countries around the globe. The patient/consumer identity at the point of registration or access must be accurate and linked to the entire health history in order to support the immediate care or we....
Big Data, Bigger Outcomes
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; O'Connor, Michele; Weaver, Victoria
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2012
Healthcare is embracing the big data movement, hoping to revolutionize HIM by distilling vast collections of data for specific analysis
One only needs to open a recent conference brochure, read an electronic newsletter, or preview marketing materials to appreciate that "B....
Many Roads to Data Exchange
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2010
Federal dollars are spurring efforts for health information exchange, but to say there is more than one approach is an understatement. Providers and payers are taking local, state, regional, and federal routes in search of connected healthcare.
The last year has seen tremendous excit....
Achieving Consent and Maintaining Data Quality in an Era of Health Information Exchange at the Bronx RHIO
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Shatzkin, Nance L
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 05, 2009
In the summer of 2005, interest in data sharing was growing around the country and some working health information exchange (HIE) models were in place, but none on the east coast. In the Bronx, the increase of capitated payment models and risk-based agreements between large healthcare pr....
Data Governance and Data Stewardship: Critical Issues in the Move toward EHRs and HIE
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2009
More than ever, organizations require a coherent plan for what data they will use and how they will ensure their data are fit for use.
Talk of data governance and data stewardship is cropping up more frequently with the acceleration toward electronic health records (EHRs) and h....
Patient Identification in Three Acts
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2008
As the curtain slowly rises on interoperable data exchange, the industry is still auditioning for the role of patient identification.
Throughout the past ten years, healthcare has been setting the stage for IT interoperability. With patient identification in a leading role, the scri....
Addressing the Business of the Health Information Exchange
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2007
Overview
Health information exchange is expected to produce many positive results, including increased patient safety, reduced duplicate testing, increased regulatory compliance, and higher patient satisfaction. It is essential that the right patient records can be located, on demand and....
Successful Health Data Exchange: Architecture, Practices and Operations Across the 49th Parallel
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Parker, Ron
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
Successful Health Data Exchange: Architecture, Practices, and Operations across the 49th Parallel
Lorraine Fernandes, RHIA, and Ron Parker
Overview
High expectations related to patient safety, consumer empowerment, enhanced customer satisfaction, and cost containment are ar....
Future of Patient Identification
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2006
Once data can move across vast networks, how to find it? The accuracy and flexibility of patient matching will determine interoperability’s success.
Christina Jones, a Chicago resident, is spending the day with a friend in nearby Milwaukee. While shopping after lunch, she collapse....
Strategic Information Technologies for RHIOs
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Kohn, Deborah
Source: External web site
Publication Date: March 08, 2005
Data Linkage: Ready of Not, It's Here [part 2]
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2005
As stewards of the data housed within our organizations, HIM professionals must be cognizant of ongoing work to facilitate sharing of data across networks. Such activities will gather momentum in the coming years as electronic health records become common practice. HIM professionals must endea....
Data Linkage: Ready or Not, It's Here [part 1]
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2005
In early 2004 Connecting for Health, a public-private collaborative funded by the Markle and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, engaged a cross-section of experts in security, technology, privacy, consulting, and medical informatics to define how healthcare information could be shared more effec....
Identification Challenges of the Health Care Delivery System: an International Perspective
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Stainton, Jean
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Overview
Person identification, especially patient identification, is an international challenge. The challenge arises from having non-standardized data, inconsistency of data collection, varying goals and objectives around patient identification data, and a lack of awareness of the impo....
Name Game: Canada's Blueprint for a Nationwide Master Patient Index
Author: Dorrel, Linda; Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Laskoski, Jeff
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2004
Electronic health records operate on a basic but crucial requirement: accurately identifying the patient and linking to his or her complete medical data. Canada aims for a nationwide solution to a universal challenge.
Public and private organizations worldwide are navigating the transiti....
Data Sharing Across the Continuum of Care
Author: Cerda, Clarissa; Fernandes, Lorraine M.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: September 23, 2002
Role of Electronic Merges in an Integrated Delivery System
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; Tomeck, Jo Ann; Lenson, Celia M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 1998
The existence of duplicate medical record numbers is a familiar problem in hospitals today. However, there is a heightened awareness of the importance of eliminating duplicate records. As healthcare organizations increase their use of the master patient (person) index (MPI), they ar....