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Boosting Efficiency in Home Health Record Systems
Author: Abraham, Prinny
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2000
The growing pains of the past decade have led to medical record backlogs and record retrieval crises for many home healthcare agencies. These problems have pushed more than one agency director into enlisting the skills of an HIM professional to evaluate the medical record systems in pl....
On the Line: Professional Practice Solutions (4/00)
Author: Dougherty, Michelle
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2000
Q: When are rubber-stamp signatures acceptable? I read in a Part A newsletter that Medicare no longer accepts rubber-stamp signatures on documents that certify, order, or justify a service billed to Medicare. The newsletter cited the Medicare Conditions of Participation for hospitals (42CFR4....
MPIs in Healthcare: Current Trends and Practices
Author: Moczygemba, Jackie; Biedermann, Sue E.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2000
The master patient index (MPI) is a powerful tool in healthcare organizations that HIM professionals are largely responsible for managing and maintaining. This article takes a look at MPI core elements and practice patterns in acute care facilities.
Mergers and....
Authentication of Health Record Entries (2000 update)
Author: Welch, Julie J.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: March 2000
The content in this practice brief has been retired. More recent information is available here.
Standards of Ethical Coding
Author: AHIMA Board of Directors
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2000
[The Standards of Ethical Coding have been updated. You can view the most current version here.]
Patient-centered E-mail: Developing the Right Policies
Author: Murphy, Gretchen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2000
Patients and providers are increasingly communicating via e-mail. But healthcare organizations are slow in adopting policies to address important issues and manage this new communication form. Here's what you can do to develop some measures.
Like most industries, healthcare is undergoing....
Simplified Deficiency Processing Brings Hospital-wide Benefits
Author: Grzybowski, Darice
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2000
By taking full advantage of new technology and adopting an innovative approach to processing deficiencies, this hospital saved money and time. (FORE Best Practice, AHIMA Foundation)
E-Mail Security
Author: Hughes, Gwen
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: February 2000
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Applying HIM Skills in a Systemwide Congestive Heart Failure Initiative
Author: Hefferan, Colleen; Ludwig-Beymer, Patti
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2000
Chicago-area Advocate Health Care's recent congestive heart failure (CHF) care management initiative demanded an HIM professional's specialized skills and insight into information exchange. As a member of the interdisciplinary team recruited from Advocate's eight-hospital integrated de....
Practices and Productivity in Acute Care Facilities
Author: Osborn, Carol E.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2000
How does your HIM department measure up? A national benchmarking survey of acute care facilities will give you some answers. Take a look at your colleagues' practice patterns.
HIM professionals often are asked to provide information on how their department....
On the Line: Professional Practice Solutions (2/00)
Author: Welch, Julie J.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2000
Q: The ambulatory care facility where I work is considering implementing an electronic signature process. Is the use of electronic signature acceptable in ambulatory care? Also, what guidelines for this are available?
Q: What Internet security guidelines are available?
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Building a Clinical Audit Process
Author: Rulon, Vera; Tully, Lorraine
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2000
Here's how HIM professionals came to the fore at Oxford Health Plans as a new clinical audit process became a way to address claims submission isssues and save money. (FORE Best Practice, AHIMA Foundation)
Information Security: a Checklist for Healthcare Professionals (2000)
Author: Carpenter, Jennifer E.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: January 2000
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Coders Join Forces with Physicians to Improve Clinical Outcomes
Author: Noller, Janice R.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2000
To investigate high complication rates, coders at this facility found themselves working to improve communication, physician understanding of coder issues, and data quality. (FORE Best Practice, AHIMA Foundation)
Incentive Programs Offer Aid to Increase Coding Productivity
Author: Gleberman, Amy L.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: January 2000
Incentive programs can be a good tool for increasing productivity while maintaining coding quality. Employees who are rewarded for extra production will likely perpetuate higher levels of productivity. High coding productivity can improve a healthcare organization's bottom line by sh....
Off-Site Coding Success Story
Author: Kramer, Lynette; Meeks, Richard
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2000
If you asked HIM professionals about key success factors that substantially impact timely and accurate coding, three of the most common answers might be:
availability of the record immediately after the patient visit
availability of the complete record....
Global Language for Pharmaceutical Regulation
Author: Rulon, Vera
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2000
What will facilitate medical product regulation and related electronic data interchange worldwide? For some regulatory authorities, the answer is the Medical Dictionary for Drug Regulatory Affairsalso known as MedDRA.
MedDRA (the name is a trademark of the International Federat....
Best Practices in Medical Record Documentation and Completion
Author: Fletcher, Donna M.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: November 1999
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Mobilizing to Do Adaptive Work
Author: Fletcher, Donna M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 1999
Can our visionary leaders solve our problems? Sometimes. But more often, the reality is the power to solve problems lies with us. This is the fundamental assumption of the "adaptive work" concept presented in this articlealong with some real-life examples of HIM adaptive work in action.....
Leading Change in a Laboratory Compliance Program
Author: Rupp, Cheryl
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 1999
In any situation, there is a positive side and a negative side. At any moment, I decide.
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Compliance has become the trendy buzzword in almost every industry these days, but perhaps nowhere is it quite as prevalent as....
Seven Steps to Corporate Compliance: the HIM Role
Author: AHIMA Compliance Task Force
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: October 1999
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
By the Rules: Making Security Policies Stick
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 1999
Considerable attention has been paid to the development of organizationwide information security policiesespecially what they should contain and how they should be put in place. But enforcing these policies isn't always easy. We asked four information security experts to give us....
Correcting and Amending Entries in a Computerized Patient Record (1999)
Author: Welch, Julie J.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: September 1999
The information in this practice brief has been updated. The most recent information is available here.
Reimbursement at Your Fingertips: A Glossary of Terms
Author: Fletcher, Donna M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 1999
From the onset of DRGs in 1983 through today's proliferation of prospective payment systems (PPS) and managed care efforts, the number of terms related to reimbursement has increased significantly. The following are some of those terms and abbreviations, including those r....
Care and Maintenance of Charge Masters (1999)
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: July 1999
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Best Practices: What Works
Author: Carrier, Danielle
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 1999
Medical record accuracy, record completion time, physician satisfaction—all of these are indicators of how well an HIM department is performing. The findings of a UHC benchmarking study may point the way to best practices that can be shared and adapted.
What....
Retention of Health Information (1999 update)
Author: Fletcher, Donna M.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: June 1999
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
State Laws or Regulations Pertaining to Retention of Health Information (1999)
Author:
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: June 1999
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Decimating Duplicates
Author: Gentry, Lynne; Harnish, Patricia A.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 1999
After approximately 150,000 (out of 787,000) medical record numbers in a master patient index (MPI) were identified as possible duplicates, MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, WA, decided to address the problem through a multidisciplinary approach. An MPI conversion to a new hospital in....
EMR Education for a Student Health Center
Author: Burgess, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 1999
How does a busy student health center on a state university campus implement an electronic health record? This is the story of how Hall Health Primary Care Center (HHPCC), a community-based primary care center at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, did just that.
Working Smarter, Not Harder, in a Family Practice
Author: Wager, Karen A.; Lee, Frances Wickham; Glorioso, Robert; Bergstrom, LuAnne
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 1999
When Spring Garden Family Practice (SGFP) in York, PA, converted from paper records to an electronic medical record (EMR) four years ago, the medical director wanted his staff to work smarter, not harder.
The staff's productivity was impaired by sorting through tons of paper....
Common (and Uncommon) Ground
Author: Dixon-Lee, Claire
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 1999
On a trip to Dublin this spring, I met with several officers of the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland. During this visit, we talked about health information management, finding common ground on topics like:
Year 2000 compliance
the need for clinical vocabulary....
Managing Health Information Relating to Infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Author: Carpenter, Jennifer E.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: May 1999
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Benchmarking For a Burst of Creative Thinking
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 1999
It is precisely when an old paradigm crumbles and the new one is not yet in place that we get great bursts of creative thinking."1 I'm convinced that this is such a moment for HIM.
The old paradigm of a static, facility-bound record is, unfortunately, still the norm,....
Home Health Balancing Act
Author: Sourapas, Joan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 1999
What does a home health agency have in common with a typical Fortune 500 company? Though their activities and goals may differ, both organizations can benefit from the use of the balanced scorecard approach to measuring and enhancing performance.
Since Harvard professo....
Navigating from Data to Excellence
Author: Buff, Elizabeth Logan; Hohmann, Samuel
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 1999
How can health information help an organization improve its performance? The authors offer an approach to measuring performance using familiar tools—a compass and a dashboard.
A healthcare organization uses clinical data in a number of ways—to....
Changes for the Better: Implementing Four Best Practices
Author: Doyon, Cynthia; Thompson, Kim; Meottel, Lori
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 1999
Best practices don't have to be expensive or difficult. Sometimes changing a process for the better simply means looking at it from a new angle. Here's how one hospital staff collaborated on simple changes that made a difference.
When it comes to reengineering processes....
Productivity: How Do You Measure Up?
Author: Lorence, Daniel P.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 1999
Previous issues of the Journal of AHIMA, along with other health information publications, have featured examples of benchmarking and best practices, describing how healthcare organizations use the process of benchmarking to identify the "best in class" achievements for a given organ....
HIPAA Checklist
Author: Fuller, Sandra R.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: April 1999
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Protecting Patient Information After a Facility Closure (1999)
Author: Brandt, Mary D.; Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 1999
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Operationalizing ORYX: An Integrated System's Experience
Author: Miller, Judith A.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 1999
A new requirement of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires hospitals and other healthcare entities to forward performance measurement data for use in the accreditation process. The Joint Commission calls this performance measurement....
Benchmarking with National ICD-9-CM Coded Data
Author: Osborn, Carol E.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 1999
As HIM professionals, we want to be assured that we are providing the highest quality data for reimbursement and research purposes. We can review coded data internally, but this does not give us a clear picture of the total information that is being submitted to the Health Care Financing Admin....
Sample Information Security Program
Author: Ballam, Holly
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 1999
Information Security Program
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Telecommuting
Author: Fletcher, Donna M.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: February 1999
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Benchmarking a World-class Image
Author: Dixon-Lee, Claire
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 1999
This time of year may find us longing for a chair by a cozy fireplace or lounging on a sunny beach. When we find time for reflection, it's good to periodically reflect on ourselves and the image that we project as HIM professionals.
Authority Robert Camp defines benchmarki....
Release of Information: Laws and Regulations, Alabama - Iowa
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.; Larson, Joan C.
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: January 1999
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Release of Information: Laws and Regulations, Kansas - Montana
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.; Larson, Joan C.
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: January 1999
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Release of Information: Laws and Regulations, Nebraska - Rhode Island
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.; Larson, Joan C.
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: January 1999
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Release of Information: Laws and Regulations, South Carolina - Wyoming
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.; Larson, Joan C.
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: January 1999
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Release of Information: Laws and Regulations
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.; Larson, Joan C.
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: January 1999
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
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