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When it comes to securing funds from a parent for that special toy, children can be quite creative. Somehow, they know exactly which strings to pull to land the coveted item. It can be a promise to keep their room clean or an irrestible smile that gets the job done.
For health care professionals seeking funding for new technology, it’s going to take more than a winning personality to gain approval. This month’s E-News Exclusive explores strategies for how HIM leaders can persuade the C-suite to provide the financial support for release-of-information outsourcing.
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A Pro Forma Guide to C-Suite Approval for ROI Outsourcing
By Deborah Gustavsen, PhD
The benefits of outsourcing release of information (ROI)—eg, reduced costs, fewer phone calls, a reduction in risk and liabilities, tracking software, and improved patient satisfaction—are well known. These benefits are a major selling point for ROI vendors, yet it often is portrayed as a “life-or-death” scenario, with a failure to outsource ROI equivalent to putting your professional life in danger. The truth is, the business of ROI is dynamic and requires continuous evaluation to determine whether your current approach—in house or outsourced—is founded on empirical grounds.
A few helpful tips can help you evaluate your current approach, assess alternative options, and build the business case required to effect change with senior leaders in your organization.
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AHIMACon17 Offers Inspiration and Innovation in LA
By Heather Hogstrom
The 89th AHIMA Convention and Exhibit will be held October 7–11 in Los Angeles. Featuring the theme “Inspire, Innovate, Lead,” the conference will focus on areas health information is transforming and ways health information professionals can play a leading role. Packed with more than 100 education sessions and more than 150 exhibitors, the conference offers information, insights, and ideas attendees can use in their organizations.
One hot topic is privacy and security. Sessions on protecting health information include “HIPAA Hunger Games,” “HIM Response to an Active Shooter Incident,” and “People Mistakes That Lead to Data Breaches.” Additionally, the Privacy and Security Institute, taking place October 7–8, is an intensive, interactive meeting offering plenty of cyber, privacy, security, and compliance education. For example, Boston Children’s Hospital’s CIO will discuss when the hospital was attacked by Anonymous in “When Hacktivists Target Your Hospital.”
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A Matter of Location
Learn the factors health care organizations should weigh when deciding where to house their EMR. Read more »
Make Documentation a Two-Way Street
Banner Health System’s decision to adopt a patient charting initiative has been a winning proposition for all those involved. Read more »
Swift Response Can Limit Cyber Attack Damage
How a health care organization reacts to a security breach incident will go a long way toward determining its fate. Read more »
HIEs Serve Communities of All Sizes
As Colorado and Rhode Island can attest, meeting patients’ needs depends on a series of crucial factors. Read more » |
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CDS Coalition Drops Voluntary Guidelines for Unregulated Clinical Decision Support Software
The CDS Coalition released the final draft of its voluntary industry guidelines for medium-risk clinical decision support (CDS) software, providing guidance for software that can fly under the radar of the FDA, which regulates only high-risk CDS software, reports MobiHealthNews.
Hospital Staffers Photograph Patient’s Genitals, Breach Privacy
An unconscious patient’s confidentiality and privacy was violated when multiple hospital staff photographed the patient’s injury with their personal phones and circulated the images, according to The Washington Post. |
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