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Close Doesn’t Count: Patient Matching Challenges in HIEs
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Lisa A. Eramo, MA
The more we know about patients, the easier it is to match them. Or at least that’s the theory. Clinical data, patient-generated data, biometrics, social determinants of health: all of this should make patient matching in health information exchanges (HI....
Clinical Documentation Improvement for Outpatient Care: Design and Implementation
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
Editor’s Note: This Practice Brief is based on an excerpt from the AHIMA Press publication Clinical Documentation Improvement for Outpatient Care: Design and Implementation by Pamela Carroll Hess, MA, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CPC.
The AHIMA Foundation has established compe....
Three Ways Analytics Optimizes Health Outcomes
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA
Over the summer I was fortunate to participate in several conferences. I was both honored to be involved and enthralled at the expertise of all of the individuals who participated and presented.
Data is powerful. Data litera....
Coding Quality Improvement Plan Implementation for Hospital-Acquired Physician Groups
Author: Youmans, Karen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Karen Youmans, MPA, RHIA, CCS, and Vanessa Youmans, MA, RHIA, CCS, CPC
As healthcare organizations strive for continuous efficiency and sustainability, mergers and acquisitions (M&A)among diverse medical facilities provides organizations new opportunities to reduce costs an....
Anonymized EHRs Create Potential Liability for Google and Hospital
Author: Hedges, Ron
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Gail L. Gottehrer, JD, and Ronald J. Hedges, JD
A recently filed class action highlights the risk that the proliferation of health-related smartphone apps, fitness trackers, and the data these programs collect, may enable the re-identification of purportedly de-identified elect....
CAC Takes Coding Into the Future
Author: Fahy, Kristi
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Kristi Fahy, RHIA
Technology is the segue to the future. It is the very thing that will transform the landscape of today’s world into one with endless possibilities. In healthcare, that transformation is being accelerated by the transition to electronic health records (EH....
NIST Privacy Framework: Protecting Privacy While Promoting Interoperability
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Karen Starling Greenhalgh, HCISPP, CHC, CHPC
Privacy is often seen as a barrier to electronic health information exchange (HIE). To help address those concerns and meld core privacy principles with proven oversight and accountability mechanisms, the National Institute of Standa....
Telehealth's Popularity Puts New Emphasis on Privacy and Security
Author: Clack, Lesley
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Lesley Clack, ScD, MS, CPH
Telehealth, which refers to healthcare services facilitated remotely through electronic information and telecommunications technology, is on the rise. In 2010, 35 percent of hospitals had partially or fully implemented computerized telehealth systems,....
‘The Farewell’ Offers Insights into HIPAA’s Right to Access
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Mary Butler
In the film The Farewell, Chinese-American actress and comedian Awkwafina plays a woman torn between two cultural approaches to death and dying when her character, Billi, learns that her grandmother has terminal lung cancer. Billi's grief is compounded when she....
A Time to Be Bold
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Wylecia Wiggs Harris, PhD, CAE, chief executive officer
HIM professionals are well aware of the work involved in matching patients to their unique records. Mismatched records can cost us time, lead to frustration, and cause headaches and dissatisfaction for patients and provide....
Six Strategies to Build Outpatient Coding Accuracy and Quality
Author: Olenik, Keith
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Keith Olenik, MA, RHIA, CHP
As healthcare services migrate toward outpatient settings, hospitals and health systems are struggling to ensure coding accuracy and quality for owned practices and clinics. With the steady increase in outpatient services, revenue integrity chal....
Evaluating Clinical Scenarios in Coding Clinic with Data Analytics
Author: Casto, Anne B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
By Anne Casto, RHIA, CCS
The American Hospital Association’s Coding Clinic publishes valuable advice and guidance for coding professionals, but can coding professionals learn even more from this publication? What could coding professionals gain if Coding Clinic ent....
CodeWrite September 19 Zcodes
Author: Bielby, Judy A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
CodeWrite September 19 PCS
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
Appendix D: Qualitative Productivity Tool Example
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
Productivity expectations can be both qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative productivity is measuring the quality of the work being performed. This is typically measured by performing audits of the CDI professional’s work and then assigning a numeric value so it can be measured (see e....
Appendix C: Ongoing Education Plan
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
An annual plan for ongoing education can be developed and started at the beginning of each calendar or fiscal year, or with the annual employee evaluation. The manager of the CDI team or designee can be required to ensure each education topic is offered to the employee during the year. It is im....
Appendix A: Key Points in Developing a CDI Program
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
Recruitment Best Practices
Create a culture where great employees want to work
Consider the candidate’s cultural compatibility, leadership skills, communication skills, and intellectual ability
Consider all candidate streams when recruiting both internally an....
Appendix B: Orientation for New CDI Professionals
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2019
Orientation for new clinical documentation professionals should include the nuances involved in diagnosis, procedure, inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS), and outpatient prospective payment systems (OPPS) capture. Some of these topics include concepts such as major diagnostic categorie....
Collaboration is Key to Leading Through Transformation
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA
I am so inspired by our leaders all across the country. At last year’s CSA Leadership Symposium it was agreed that AHIMA was in a state of decline and that change was needed. It was an amazing moment—one I will never forget an....
Developing and Defining a Legal Health Record Policy
Author: Zak, Cindy
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Cindy Zak, MS, RHIA, PMP, FAHIMA
Yale New Haven Health (YNHH) began implementing the electronic health record (EHR) across four delivery networks in 2012. As the system moved to the electronic world, it became evident that YNHH needed to address the issue of defining the organi....
New Starts and Transformation Wins
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Wylecia Wiggs Harris, PhD, CAE, chief executive officer
September is a time of new starts. At AHIMA, it’s our busiest time of year as we prepare for our annual conference and a host of other fall and winter activities. It’s also a time to look back on the year: two-....
In Search of EHR's Designated Record Set
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Mary Butler
When Rita Bowen, MA, RHIA, CHPS, CHPC, SSGB, broke her elbow while attending an AHIMA event in Baltimore threeyears ago, she soldiered on through the event but summoned her primary care physician for a telemedicine encounter to determine her treatment. Later, when c....
Historic State AG HIPAA Filing: An Important Case to Understand
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Iliana L. Peters, JD, LLM, CISSP, and Pasha Sternberg, JD
ON MAY 30, 2019, Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively referred to in this article as “MIE”), agreed to pay $900,000 to 16 states that had jointly filed suit for violating t....
Data Mapping of Clinical Terminologies, Classifications, and Ontologies
Author: Campbell, James R.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By James R. Campbell, MD, FACP, FACMI
Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from Chapter 17 of Healthcare Code Sets, Terminologies, and Classification Systems, Fourth Edition, published by AHIMA Press.
In 2007, the Institute of Medicine set a vision for the....
Data Analytics: The Straight-Lined Labyrinth that Entrapped the HIM Profession
Author: Sandefer, Ryan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2019
By Ryan Sandefer, PhD, and David Marc, PhD, CHDA
Skills in data analytics are critical to the future of health information management (HIM), yet there has been considerable confusion regarding how to articulate what data analytics means for the profession. In a survey of more than....
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