Author: Myjer, D'Arcy

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2002

How should HIM departments organize to meet the challenges of the electronic medical record (EMR), compliance, HIPAA, and high-volume transcription?


The HIM department at Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC) in Stanford, CA, has evolved to meet the need for change. Here’s....

Author: Shaffer, Audrey

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2002

At the opening ceremony of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in 1994, thousands of balloons were released over the Chinese countryside as a symbol of the advanced medical care the hospital hoped to spread throughout China.


Hong Kong philanthropist Sir Run Run Shaw, along with the Zheji....

Author: Tully, Lorraine

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2001

HealthMarket, Inc., is a Norwalk, CT-based company offering “self-directed health plans” to employers and insurers as a new choice in health benefits. Founded in 1999, the company aims to shift healthcare decision making from insurance intermediaries to physicians and patients. As part of its....

Author: Baron, Anne

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 10, 2001

Background

Beginning in 1997, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) started conducting annual audits of Medicare billing practices. These audit results estimated that Medicare had paid more than $23 billion in incorrect payments in 1996 and more than $20 billion in 1997.....

Author: Dunham, Larry

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 10, 2001

Introduction

The struggle to do more with less is something all of us in the health information management (HIM) industry have had to wrestle with for years. The strategy for aligning our departments for operational success with respect to bottom-line results has varied greatly.....

Author: Morgan, William

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 10, 2001

Introduction


Automating clinical care processes via a computer-based patient record (CPR) provides clinicians with point-of-care tools needed to pursue "best practice" - the delivery of evidence-based, high-quality, cost-effective care. However, to improve clinical practice as a w....

Author: Jaskowski, Debbi; Keate, Ray F.

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 10, 2001

Introduction


Health information management (HIM) professionals have been hearing, for many years now, of the benefits and efficiencies to be gained from the use of an electronic medical record. We have all anxiously awaited reaping those rewards. What HIM professional can't relate....

Author: Mercer, Michele

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2001

by Michele Mercer, RN, MS, HSA



Without an enterprise data warehouse, we were flying blind," says Robert Robison, MD, chief medical officer of Horizon Mercy in Trenton, NJ.

Horizon/Mercy, one of the largest managed care organizations in the nation, administers an....

Author: Rapp, Timothy J.

Source: Educational Perspectives (AOE)

Publication Date: January 02, 2001

Introduction


Medical record documentation is one of the central aspects of healthcare today. Whether that documentation is in a paper-based system or in an electronic version makes no difference. The medical record is at the core of almost all healthcare functions. For example,....

Author: Zender, Anne

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2000

Five years ago the first recipients of the Davies awards showed us successes of CPR systems across the country. Where are they now? This article catches up with these CPR leaders.
Is your job exactly the same as it was five years ago? For most HIM professionals, the answer....