VIDEO: Transforming Quality Leadership
Matthew Schuller, MS, RHIA, shares three pieces of advice for HIM professionals interested in taking on greater leadership roles. One piece of advice is to extend beyond your comfort zone. **Follow...
View ArticleEight Steps to ICD-10 Success
The announcement of a proposed delay to the implementation of ICD-10-CM/PCS caused a shudder across the healthcare industry in February 2012. Many organizations and providers were well down the path of...
View ArticleVirtual Lifetime Electronic Record Fosters Health Information Sharing
The goal of the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) program is simple enough—to improve the care coordination and delivery for the approximately 22 million veterans that the Department of...
View ArticleIntroducing Kathleen Frawley: A Conversation with AHIMA’s Incoming President
Your new AHIMA president fights to prevent education drop-outs, used an IBM Selectric typewriter before an EHR, and can often be found in a Broadway theater. AHIMA, meet Kathleen A. Frawley. Frawley,...
View ArticleGeneral Session: It’s All About the Patient
Everything in healthcare begins with the patient, according to Tuesday’s general session speakers at the AHIMA Convention and Exhibit. “If we can innovate new tools, services, applications, and service...
View ArticleAHIMA Names UWHC First Grace Award Recipient
The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics (UWHC) has been selected as the winner of the first AHIMA Grace Award. The award was presented to UWHC leadership during Tuesday’s convention general...
View ArticleFive Common Security Issues Threatening Your Healthcare Facility
Staff-related issues and the complications of new technologies were among the issues addressed Tuesday by Jim Sheldon-Dean, BS, MS, founder and director of compliance services at Vermont-based...
View ArticleGoing Social: Weighing the Risks and Benefits
Consultant Keith Olenik, MA, RHIA, CHP, with The Olenik Consulting Group, in Chicago, IL, said that when he hears that organizations are considering getting into social media, his legal antennae go up....
View ArticleVIDEO: 2012 AHIMA Convention Wrap-Up
View a wrap-up video of highlights and news from the 2012 AHIMA Convention and Exhibit, held September 29 to October 4 in Chicago, IL.
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AUDIO: HIM Must Adapt or Become Irrelevant
Richard Averill discusses the need for HIM to digitally adapt. Many health information management professionals need to increase their data analytic skills in order to stay relevant at their facility,...
View ArticleAHIMA Surpasses 71,000 Members
AHIMA’s CEO Lynne Thomas Gordon announced on Monday at the opening general session of the AHIMA Convention and Exhibit that the official membership number has now surpassed 71,000. That is a sizeable...
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The Day in Pictures: Take Two
AHIMA is celebrating 85 years of dreaming big and believing at this year’s Annual Convention and Exhibit, being held October 26-30 in Atlanta, GA. With plenty to do and see, the following offers photo...
View ArticleShining a New Light on Patient Engagement
Switch the lens and look at the patient in a new light. That was the key message delivered by Kim Murphy-Abdouch, RHIA, MPH, FACHE, clinical assistant professor at Texas State University, in her Monday...
View ArticleCommonWell: Interoperability ‘For the Common Good’
Created to promote “interoperability for the common good,” the CommonWell Health Alliance aims to make health data available to individuals and providers, regardless of where care occurs. In addition,...
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EHR Management Track Discusses Human Error Challenges
To err is human, but to really foul things up, you need a computer. So stated the introductory slide for the convention session “To Err is Human…To Correct Takes an HIM Professional” presented by Mary...
View ArticlePrepare Now for Possible Meaningful Use Audits
The goal for the “meaningful use” EHR Incentive Program (MU) is to promote adoption and implementation of certified electronic health records (CEHRs) to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce...
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The Day in Pictures: Take Three
AHIMA is celebrating 85 years of dreaming big and believing at this year’s Annual Convention and Exhibit, being held October 26-30 in Atlanta, GA. With plenty to do and see, the following offers photo...
View ArticleSurviving and Coding the Zombie Apocalypse
Fans of the popular AMC television show “The Walking Dead” have watched Atlanta and its surrounding area become overrun by brain-hungry, shambling zombies. On Friday, November 1 at the nearby Atlanta...
View Article‘Data is Going to Come at You By Storm’
The future state of healthcare will be driven by demographics, technology, and value. Most of all it will require professionals to manage new, vast amounts of data. Three thought leaders delivered...
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AHIMA Launches Blue Button Campaign
During the October 27 House of Delegates meeting at AHIMA’s Annual Convention and Exhibit, AHIMA announced its upcoming awareness campaign for the Blue Button Initiative. The below graphic outlines the...
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