Author: Miller, Elena

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: September 13, 2017

When I first emerged from school into my life as a new graduate, I had no idea that there was still so much I had to learn. There are eight things in particular that I wish I had known then:

1. Experience is often preferred, not required.


Companies can only hire....

Author: Stambaugh, Robyn

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: August 17, 2017

In the era before computers and search engines, libraries would use the card catalog—a paper database ordered by the Dewey Decimal System—to find a book or information. The Dewey Decimal System, a hierarchical scheme, is the means with which to identify, classify, and retrieve....

Author: Wood, Jane

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: August 09, 2017

Every fall, coding professionals anxiously await the list of new and revised ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes. They read articles and listen to webinars that describe the changes and are eager to prepare themselves for compliant, accurate use of the updated code set on October 1. But....

Author: Paulson, Dawn

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: July 21, 2017

Patient safety is an organizational responsibility. But concern over the astonishing rate of development and adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) in recent years has also provided potential for risk and safety issues. This rapid growth in EHR development has in large part been....

Author: Barron, Chrystel

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: July 12, 2017

It is important to know the difference between anticoagulant drugs and antiplatelet drugs when assigning a Z-code for long term drug use. Both of these types of drugs are closely related in the way they manipulate the various channels of the blood clotting mechanism, which can make this a....

Author: Fahy, Kristi

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: June 22, 2017

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force released their long-awaited “Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry” on June 2. The report addresses information governance (IG) as a concept that will....

Author: Miller, Elena

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: June 15, 2017

While many people have heard the term “HIV” before, fewer are likely to know what it stands for: human immunodeficiency virus. This is the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency sydrome, also known as AIDS. The difference in code assignment is based on whether or not the patient has t....

Author: Miller, Nicole

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: June 15, 2017

When information governance (IG) first became the buzz word in healthcare it seemed like it was not very well understood and there was much to be learned. The healthcare industry has moved past that initial reaction and is ready to embrace this new reality of information governance. I....

Author: Bryson, Casey

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: May 22, 2017

You can’t throw a rock in healthcare today without hitting someone claiming to solve “the problem of interoperability.” Those claims come from interface engines, private or public collaboratives like the Sequoia Project and Commonwell, government entities like the Office of the Nation....

Author: Fahy, Kristi

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: May 19, 2017

A chord of fear has been struck in many organizations—both healthcare and others—after the ransomware attacks that occurred last week that infected more than 200,000 computers across 150 different countries. The ransomware attacks known as “WannaCry” have left many organizations questionin....