Author: Kloss, Linda L

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2005

For the past two years, AHIMA’s report “Vision of the e-HIM® Future” has served as a touchstone in our rapidly adapting field. When published in 2003, the report painted a picture of evolving HIM roles and practice in a healthcare industry moving from paper to an elec....

Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on the Legal Health Record

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2005

The custodian of an electronic health record (EHR) has the same concerns as the custodian of a paper health record when the record becomes involved in the legal process. Most often this occurs in some form of lawsuit in which a party seeks to discover and introduce evidence from the record. The....

Author: Curtis, Elizabeth

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2005

As CPOE turns from vision to reality, what impact is it having on HIM? And what impact is HIM having on it?
Installing an order entry system in a busy hospital environment can be a huge undertaking for administration, information systems, nursing, ancillary departments, and the medical s....

Author: Bloomrosen, Meryl

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2005

Health IT has been a hot topic in the two years since AHIMA published "A Vision of the e-HIM Future." Members of the original task force take a look back.
This fall marks the second anniversary of the AHIMA report "A Vision of the e-HIM Future." The report, published in September 2003,....

Author: Fonkych, Kateryna; Taylor, Roger

Source: External web site

Publication Date: September 15, 2005

Author: Frisse, Mark; Marchibroda, Janet; Welebob, Emily

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2005

Local factors shape state and regional health information exchange, but as differing models
develop, common defining principles are emerging.
The exchange of health information across traditional institutional boundaries is inevitable. Nearly every stakeholder group—hospitals....

Author: Bechtel, Christine

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2005

CMS’s new scope of work sends QIOs to physician offices, hospitals, and home health agencies to provide free assistance implementing health information technology.
Achieving the goal of widely adopted, interoperable health information technology (HIT) rests on the ability of HIM an....

Author: Smith, Douglas L.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2005

More than 100 years ago, a cutting-edge technology offered the potential to improve and better manage care. But like each innovation that was to follow, the telephone wasn’t implemented in a day.
Editor’s note: The most common technologies surrounding us were once revolutiona....

Author: Westhafer, Kathy J

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2005

Have you given any thought to how your medical record committee and forms management process need to transition with electronic health record (EHR) development? At the Christiana Care Health System, we have. Here’s our evolving story.

Christiana Care is a two-hospital health s....

Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on the Legal Health Record

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2005

This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: Smith, Paul; Williams, Rebecca L.; Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Source: External web site

Publication Date: August 10, 2005

Author: Moreno, Lorenzo

Source: External web site

Publication Date: August 02, 2005

Author: Fuller, Sandra R.; Dennis, Jill Callahan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2005

Identifying the factors that will shape transcription in the coming years helps create strategies to anticipate and influence the possible outcomes.
What does the future hold for transcription? Will there be rapid adoption of technology within a standards and quality framework that suppo....

Author: Fraser, Greg

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes

Publication Date: July 2005

In 1968 Larry Weed, MD, introduced the idea that a complete and accurate problem list is an essential component of the medical record.1 The problem-oriented medical record (POMR), in which all data contained in the medical record can be linked to a list of problems, has been almost universally....

Author: Sedona Conference. Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Documnet Retention & Production

Source: External web site

Publication Date: July 02, 2005

This is the post public-comment version of The Sedona Principles. The Working Group on Electronic Document Production was conceived to develop principles to guide organizational practices and legal doctrine.

Author: Rosati, Kristen; Lamar, Marilyn

Source: External web site

Publication Date: July 02, 2005

Author: Rhodes, Harry B.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2005

Establishing private-sector certification of health IT products is one of the key actions outlined by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the report “The Decade of Health Information Technology: Delivering Consumer-centric and Information-rich Heal....

Author: Bower, Anthony G.

Source: External web site

Publication Date: May 15, 2005

Author: AHIMA Work Group

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2005

This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: CCHIT

Source: External web site

Publication Date: April 25, 2005

Author: Rollins, Gina

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2005

John Halamka has a history of matching patient records in a large health system. How can that be done in regional networks of unaffiliated organizations?
John Halamka, MD, is chief information officer at CareGroup Healthcare System, a Boston-based integrated delivery system with six hosp....

Author: Kloss, Linda L

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2005

In recent remarks to Connecting for Health’s steering group, David Brailer, MD, PhD, the national health information technology coordinator, noted that if this is the decade of health IT adoption, 2005 could well turn out to be the year of “maximum flexion.” Brailer urged the....

Author: Giannangelo, Kathy; Berkowitz, Lyle

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes

Publication Date: April 2005

With the advent of electronic health record (EHR) systems, IT solutions are needed to ease the recording of standard codes for clinical encounters. The basis for these products is a standard terminology, without which the full benefits of an EHR are unlikely to be realized. One expert notes th....

Author: Wager, Karen A.; Ward, David M; Lee, Frances Wickham; White, Andrea Weatherby; Davis, Kimberly S; Clancy, Dawn E

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2005

Research in an ambulatory care practice finds that, despite physician concerns, patients don’t perceive EHRs as intruders in the exam room.
Although great strides have been made in the use and acceptance of EHR systems in ambulatory care practice, there are still barriers that kee....

Author: Carol, Ruth

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2005

EHR systems are costly to purchase, complex to evaluate, and require expertise to implement. So why are small physician practices buying more of them than ever before?
There are plenty of good reasons why EHRs have been scarce in small and medium-sized physician practices. Enormous cost....