12 results.
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....
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....
Managing Electronic Information Beyond the Health Record
Author: Nunn, Sandra L.; O'Connor, Michele
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 05, 2009
Introduction
Health Information Management professionals have embraced the challenge of implementing and managing the Electronic Health Record. This presentation will demonstrate how to stretch the skills the HIM professional developed in building the Electronic Health Record (EHR) to mov....
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....
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....
Connecting Care through EMPIs
Author: Hewitt, Joseph B.; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2002
Behind every medical record is a patient whose care depends on a thorough understanding of current and past medical conditions. When that understanding is compromised due to an incomplete record, care suffers. Learn how an enterprise master patient index can be the foundation of medical record....
Launching a Web-based Training Program: Improving MPI Data Integrity
Author: O'Connor, Michele; Evans, Su-Linn
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2001
Keywords
Master Person Index (MPI)
E-learning
Registration
Training
Web-based
Data integrity
Introduction
What Is E-learning?
Although e-learning has many different definitions depending on who you talk to, it ultimately is....