February 3, 2012 Healthcare Informatics Editors
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January kicked off a new year, and here at HCI, our readers were looking ahead at what will surely be a big year in healthcare IT. There are a wide array of issues on the minds’ of providers and industry leaders everywhere, and the most popular articles in January reflected that.
January 31, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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Healthcare Stakeholders Met at Care Innovations Summit At a gathering of healthcare stakeholders in Washington this week, over a dozen healthcare "challenges" were announced by payers, vendors, non-profits and the public sector.
January 13, 2012
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The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is beginning to launch a new slate of online courses that is aimed at providing coders and other healthcare professional the training they need to manage the transition to ICD-10. AHIMA also announced the introduction of a Training Pathways Guide that offers recommendations to users on the training curriculum ideally suited for their specific healthcare settings and roles.
January 6, 2012
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The Chicago, Ill.-based American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has come up with a list of seven initiatives that will impacthealth information management (HIM) professionals in 2012. The issues, which will be covered throughout the year by AHIMA’s HIM experts, were featured in a recent Journal of AHIMA piece.
December 29, 2011 Joe Bormel, M.D.
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Truly advanced computers will be needed in order to help patient care organizations advance to the next levels in physician documentation and management of the ICD-10 coding system.
October 19, 2011
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I’m here to share a few of the major messages that resonated during this convention. So without further ado, here are my notes, grouped by subject area. I'll try to share the names of the presenters where I can, since the presentations and audio are available to AHIMA members.
August 15, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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After Starla Stavely took her position as health information management director at Jennie Stuart Medical Center (JSMC), a hospital with just fewer than 200 beds in Hopkinsville, Ky., she performed a financial and coding assessment that showed healthy room for improvement. Not only was there room for growth in coding accuracy among clinicians and coders, there were monthly revenue opportunities to be gained.
August 2, 2011 Mark Hagland
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If anything was clear last month in Ojai, California during the AMDIS Physician Symposium, it was that CMIOs as a group are at a very significant crossroads professionally, both as individuals, and within the broader context of the evolution of the U.S. healthcare system.
July 26, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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CIOs and healthcare IT professionals are naturally busy people. We all know this. Especially in this era of healthcare reform and meaningful use which requires complex IT infrastructure to connect healthcare organizations to form health information exchanges and accountable care organizations.
October 13, 2009
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Let's get all the Blog contributors working on a Top Five IT issues list for 2010.
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