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Data Ownership Evolves with Technology
Author: Demster, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
Technology has transformed the world of health information management (HIM), bringing about change for many of the field’s longstanding professional concepts and work methods. The classic rule of ownership in the words-on-paper era of health records was that “the paper (physical medium) belong....
Identifying Issues in Facility and Provider Mergers and Acquisitions. Appendix A: Information Management Checklist for Mergers and Acquisitions
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: February 2012
Action Item Responsible Party Comments Completion Date
Obtain a list of all health information and technology systems. For example:
Practice A Encoder
Practice B Encoder
Practice A Lab Module
Practice B Lab Module
Practice A Billing System
Practice B Billing Syste....
Identifying Issues in Facility and Provider Mergers and Acquisitions (2012 update)
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2012
Editor's note: This practice brief supplants the November 1996 brief "Managing Health Information in Facility Mergers and Acquisitions."
Healthcare's rapidly changing environment has prompted an increase in mergers and acquisitions as facilities and providers strive to s....
Identifying Issues in Facility and Provider Mergers and Acquisitions. Appendix B: HIM Worklist: Setting Up a New Clinic
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: February 2012
Purpose:
To ensure all health information-related tasks are addressed in the process of setting up a new clinic.
Departments Needed: Contracting, Marketing, IS, HIM, Patient Management Systems, EMR Team, Clinic Management, Billing/Coding Questions to Answer:
1. What is the legal name....
Managing Nontext Media in Healthcare Practices - Retired
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2011
The most common type of media used in healthcare practices in the past several decades has been text. Text is comprised of printed words, letters, and numbers translated into information used for diagnosis and treatment.
Today's healthcare practices have adopted more sophisticated me....
Document Management and Imaging Best Practices to Manage the Hybrid Record
Author: Dooling, Julie A; Downing, Kathy
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009, Stage I meaningful use incentives focus on electronically capturing health information in a structured format. While scanned images do not meet these requirements, electronic document management syst....
Understanding Patient Access and Amendments
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA, 45 CFR, section 164.524 and 164.526) and subsequent privacy rule revisions under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act changed how covered entities approach a patient’s right to ac....
Retention and Destruction of Health Information. Appendix D: AHIMA's Recommended Retention Standards (2011 update)
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: August 2011
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Protecting Patient Information after a Facility Closure. Appendix B: Sample Notice When Records Will Be Transferred to a Storage Facility (2011 update)
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: August 2011
Protecting Patient Information after a Facility Closure. Appendix E: Sample Certificate of Destruction (2011 update)
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: August 2011
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