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State of Health Information Governance in Healthcare: Case Study—Interstate Integrated Delivery System
Author: Kadlec, Lesley
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2014
In an effort to begin to answer basic questions related to the state of information governance (IG) in healthcare, AHIMA invited several different types of organizations from across the country to participate in a case study analysis.
Below are the results of the....
State of Health Information Governance in Healthcare: Case Study—Academic Medical Center System
Author: Kadlec, Lesley
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2014
In an effort to begin to answer basic questions related to the state of information governance (IG) in healthcare, AHIMA invited several different types of organizations from across the country to participate in a case study analysis.
Below are the results of....
Workforce Training in Electronic Health Record (EHR) Use through Community Colleges in the Delta Region: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi
Author: Plettenberg, Cheryl A; Smith, LaShunda Blanding; Hart-Hester, Susan
Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management
Publication Date: December 2013
Introduction
Adoption of health information technology (HIT) was one of the major policy priorities of the federal stimulus package contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, with more than $19 billion in federal spending allocated for widespread implementati....
Data Migration Lessons Learned: One Facility Relates Hard-learned Best Practices After Migrating to a New EHR
Author: Noreen, Neysa
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2013
During the planning stages of a new electronic health record (EHR) implementation at Children's Hospitals and Clinics, Minnesota's PACE clinic, discussions began regarding what needed to be done with the legacy EHR's historical data. Discussions moved quickly to migrating the data from the....
Small Hospital Uses Data for Big Improvements
Author: Cinquegrani, Kelly
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2013
In order to take full advantage of health information technology, data, and analysis, an organization needs a standardization of protocols and its health IT systems must be built to support specific processes. FirstLight Health System (FLHS) has learned this first-hand over the last severa....
Reengineering the Professional Practice Experience: With Participation Declining, One HIM Program Decided to Revamp its PPE Offering
Author: Manger, Barbara J.; Kirk, Kathleen M
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2013
Educators are facing challenging times in placing students in professional practice experience sites (PPE). These challenges are brought on by changes in the health industry work settings and demands, as well as the change in student demographics and personal commitments. Faculty in the he....
Beacon Policy Brief Building a Foundation of Electronic Data to Measure and Drive Improvement
Author: Schachter, Abigail; Rein, Alison L.; Sabharwal, Raj
Source: External healthcare industry report | U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for HIT
Publication Date: August 2013
This issue brief describes current challenges encountered when using electronic data for quality measurement and improvement, and shares promising strategies and tactics deployed by Beacon Communities.
Transitioning Transcriptionists
Author: Person, Carol; Terlep, Minnette
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2013
Facing a diminished role, transcriptionists at Sanford Health worked with the organization to move into open, and in-demand, coding roles
The need for transcription was diminishing at Sanford Health, and transcriptionists needed to make a choice-transition into another....
Getting Serious About Information Governance
Author: Reno, Danielle; Kersten, Sandra K.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2013
Information governance is becoming a priority for healthcare organizations. Today's healthcare organizations invest in information technology at unprecedented rates, and IT generates more data than ever before. Stakeholders expect healthcare organizations to use health IT to bring improvem....
Personal Check: Patients the New Ally in Data Integrity Management
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2013
When Deborah Kohn recently logged onto her healthcare provider's patient portal to view her X-ray reports, she immediately knew something wasn't quite right. She'd undergone one X-ray of her left hand and another of her right hand. The problem?
Both X-ray reports were identi....
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