HIM

• Improving Release of Information Workflow

• Quality AI Data Relies on HIM Expertise

• New Alignment

• Building Quality Control

• Upon Further Review

• HIM Challenges: Congress Hits Pause on Sunsetting

• Balancing Privacy and Access

• Guiding CDI

• Informatics: Keeping Up With the Times

• Automatic for the People

• Allies in Cancer Care

• A Path Forward: Recommendations for Standardizing Social Determinants Capture

• The State of Paper in Health Care: An Analysis

• Release of Information and Audits

• Leadership Rules

• Understanding Antibiotic Prescribing and Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship

• The Designated Record Set

• Automating ROI Workflows Is the Future. Is Your HI Team Prepared?

• Pathway to a Career as a Cancer Registrar

• The Evolution of Clinical Documentation

• What’s in a Name?

• Include the HIM Team to Maximize Your EHR Implementation

• HIM Careers: The Rise of Skills-Based Hiring

• Patient Identity Management

• Switching It Up

• Effective IT and HIM Collaboration

• HCC Overhaul Brings New Documentation Challenges

• Data Usability Taking Root

• The National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program

• The Digitization of ROI

• Patient Identification Challenges

• A Foundation for Optimizing the Future of Documentation

• The Essence of Data Integrity

• Patient Data Integrity and AI/Advanced Analytics

• Risk Adjustment Factor Methodologies

• Renovating Your Release of Information Program

• Cancer Registries: Is Outsourcing a Better Option?

• Leading the World in Patient Access: Two Insights Post Data Liberation Day

• Becoming an AHIMA-Approved CDI Trainer

• State AGs Crack Down on Data Privacy

• Does Your Documentation Meet the MEAT Criteria?

• Lean on Reports to Measure Efficiency

• The Possibilities Abound

• Prompt Response Required

• Keys to Managing Chronic Disease and SDoH

• Thoroughly Modern HIM Directors

• The People Factor

• The OCR: Friend, Not Foe

• The Pros and Cons of Sharing Consultation Notes

• Internal Audits Help Combat Payer Risk

• Be on the Lookout for New Critical Care Service Policies

• Defining the Designated Record Set

• Career Paths Expand for Health Informaticists

• Know the ‘Rights’ for Accepting Patient Records

• Health Care’s Digital Health Balancing Act

• Hit a CDI Roadblock? Maybe Your Success Metrics Need a Tune-Up

• Modernizing the Aggregation, Usability of Cancer Data

• The X-Factor

• Person Matching Supports Data Exchange

• Making Sense of Social Determinants of Health

• Use Clinical Documentation Data to Remedy Physician Burnout

• How to Deal With Sensitive Information

• The Future Looks Bright for Coders

• Birth Certificates Enter a New Era

• The Privacy Rule May Be In for a Makeover

• Open Notes for All

• When the Police Come Knocking

• Extending the Value of HIM Services

• Stand Tall Against Information Blocking

• So You Got Your COVID-19 Vaccine: What’s Next?

• Cancer Registry, Care Coordination Go Hand in Hand

• Medical Records—Everybody Wants ’Em

• Treating the Whole Person — The Importance of SDOH

• HIM Training Adapts to the New Normal

• Busy ED Environment Breeds Documentation Lapses

• Feds Go Postal to Address Patient-Matching Shortcomings

• Keep Pace With Disclosure Management Changes

• Get Compliance Efforts in Line

• Leave No HCC Behind

• For Myeloma Patients, Two Organizations Provide Hope

• Patient Identification: Calling on Congress to Make a Difference

• ROI Processes Adapt to a New World

• HIM’s Role in Interprofessional Education

• HIM Homebodies

• Eliminating the Problems From Problem Lists

• Telemedicine — Health Care’s New Documentation Paradigm

• Patient-Generated Health Data Under the Microscope

• Patient Identification During a Crisis

• The Quest for an Inclusive EHR — How AHIMA Is Shifting the Conversation on the Treatment of LGBTQ Patients

• SDoH: Behind the Buzz Is Real Potential

• Mobile Solutions Tackle Query Concerns

• The Untold MPI Story: How ‘Dirty Data’ Affect a Value-Based Revenue Cycle

• Documentation’s Effect on Readmission Rates

• Analytics Provides a Window Into the Revenue Cycle

• Tackling Coding Challenges at FQHCs

• Ahead of the Curve

• Delayed Test Results Impact Continuity of Care

• OpenNotes — What We’ve Learned So Far

• How C-Suite It Is

• Embedding IG to Optimize Cybersecurity

• Working in Tandem

• Genomic Data Delivery Must Span the Enterprise

• Full Tilt Into the Future

• Is TEFCA 2.0 — Finally — the Harbinger of True Interoperability?

• The Future of HIM

• Information Blocking: Is It or Isn’t It?

• The Qualification Question

• Eight ROI Missteps to Avoid

• Be Mindful of PA Documentation 

• Mergers, MPIs, Oh My!

• Documentation’s Effect on Value-Based Care 

• Data Standardization Can Improve Patient Matching 

• AHIMA Goes to Capitol Hill 

• Documentation’s Finer Points

• Home Health Agencies Face Documentation Hurdles

• Nebulous Notes Hinder Cancer Research

• All-In for All-Payer CDI

• A Measured Approach to Quality

• ‘Stupid’ Program Gets Results

• Privacy With a European Flair

• Pay It Forward

• Altered Mental Status: More Info Please

• How to Report Shared/Split Visits

• Diversity Key to Patient Matching

• ICYMI: The Challenges Associated With Texting 

• Research Pathways Open to HIM Professionals

• Harnessing Data

• Patient Matching: Are We Any Closer to a Solution?

• Surviving the Storm — And Other EHR Downtime Disasters

• HIM's Role in HCCs

• The Consequences of Inaccurate Provider Directories

• Battle Lines Drawn

• Assessing Documentation Quality

• Initiative Expands the Prenatal Record Process

• Physician Advisors Command Leading Role in Risk Adjustment

• Efficiency Experts

• Tale of the Tape

• Choose Your Words Carefully

• Informatics Takes Off

• Deidentification Done Right

• Hospitals Need to Make Peace With the Data Masters

• ROI Vendors Face Confusion Over Fees

• How to Improve the Query Process 

• What's New in Cancer Staging

• Data Aggregation Is Key for Analytics Efforts

• CMS Eases Student Documentation Requirements

• Should Patient Records Stay or Go?

• Coding for Pressure Ulcers, Obesity, and BMI

• Should Clearinghouses Be Allowed to Use PHI?

• EHR Implementations: Don't Be Left Out

• Is Right to Access Being Taken to Excess?

• Damsels in Distress

• Opportunities, Challenges Mark eCQM Debut

• New York Enacts Changes to Medical Record Fees 

• ICAs Help Harness the Power of Patient History

• A Singular Effort

• Are You Moving the CDI Needle?

• CAC's a Tool, Not a Panacea

• The Life of a Chart

• Image Conscious

• The Quest for a Better Records Request Strategy

• Sweeping Change Coming to Informed Consent

• Desperately Seeking Clinical Validation

• Information Governance's Role in Value-Based Care

• HIM Consolidation on the Upswing

• New Jersey Partnership Set to Curtail Patient Mix-Ups

• Using Data to Improve Coding Performance 

• Preventing Stress, Avoiding Burnout

• Tips for HDS Performance Measurement

• Embrace Risk Adjustment

• How to Make Registry Abstraction Less Stressful 

• HIEs Serve Communities of All Sizes

• Make Documentation a Two-Way Street

• Quality Data Reduce Disparities for LGBT Patients

• How HIPAA Affects Research Efforts

• A Skills Evolution

• Credentials — Valuable or Alphabet Soup?

• Improve Security Through Information Governance

• Discover the Auditor Within

• OCR Puts Audit Controls on the Front Burner

• A New Line of Defense for Inpatient Claims

• Double Down Efforts to Thwart Duplicate Patient Records

• Is Speech Recognition Viable in the ED?

• HIM Involvement Essential to Effective IG

• Discovery Mission

• Transcription Shell Game

• ROI Demands on the Rise

• Know Thy Docs

• Yearning to Learn

• Qualifying and Quantifying Risk

• Record Destruction: When, Which Ones, and How

• A Critical Juncture for Clinical Data Sharing

• Make a List, Check It Twice

• Call In the Reinforcements

• Tips for Hiring, Educating Staff

• Grab a Seat at the Table

• A Bird's Eye View of HIM Workflow

• Six Best Practices for Informed Consent

• Brain Power

• The 411 on Subpoenas

• How to 'Remote'

• Precision Medicine: It's Complicated

• Health Data: What's Yours Is Yours

• Scribes Etch a Spot in the Care Process

• Information Governance: A Bright Future in the Cloud

• Unfinished Business

• A Solution Inside a Problem

• Poor Documentation: Why It Happens and How to Fix It

• Measure Care Processes to Improve Outcomes

• Data Integrity Challenges Loom Large

• Informatics Makes a Dent in D.C. Policy

• Take Charge of Discharge Summaries

• Legal Concerns in Information Governance

• How to Build a Better HIM Department

• PHI: Valuable and Vulnerable

• Data Integrity at the Forefront of Cancer Registry

• Data Banks or Garbage Bins?

• Back to the Future of HIM

• Getting Your IG Initiative Off the Ground

• The Challenges of Population Health Management

• HIM Ingenuity on Display

• Digitization Complicates the ROI Process

• The Shape of Things to Come

• Tools, Teaching Lead To CDI Success

• Uncharted Territory

• Health Care's Patient Matching Challenge

• Queries: It's All in the Timing

• EMRs and the Lost Narrative

• Population Health Management in Action

• The Changing Face of Disaster Recovery

• EHR Training for HIM Students

• Together Again

• Where We Are, Where We're Headed

• Service Market Chaos

• How to Outsmart ROI Challenges

• Community Colleges to the Rescue

• Consider a Career as a Patient Advocate

• This Will Go On Your Permanent Record — Or Will It?

• The HIM 2.0 Effect

• Invisible Information Governance

• Accurate Documentation Breeds Success

• What a Patient Wants

• Recording Artists

• CDI Makes Its Mark

• In Search of Actionable Data

• Pediatric Documentation — It's Not Child's Play 

• HIM Faces Hurdles to Leadership Roles

• ROI Peak Performers

• HIM's Future in Population Health Management

• Navigate the CDI Divide

• Tame the Big Data Beast

• Rise of the Scribes

• Birth Data at Risk

• How Important Data Get Lost

• Dependable Data Key to Better Care

• The Cost of Doing ROI Business

• Chart Amendments Pose HIM Challenges

• HIM's Facelift

• Why I Have White Hair

• For Better Documentation, Unite Coders, Nurses

• A True Reflection?

• Grad School Option Expands HIM Horizons

• How Records Management Can Serve Two Masters

• Hooked on PEDs: Performance-Enhanced Departments

• Put a Jolt in Hospital Finances

• Paper Exit Strategies

• Hospital Schooled

• Patient Identification in an HIE Environment

• The Challenges of Corporate Compliance

• Disclosure Management — More Complicated Than Ever

• Data Analytics: Narrow Approach Key, Experts Say

• Internal Audits: Steps to Keep Your Programs Pumping

• Data in the Classroom: AHIMA’s Curriculum Maps Spotlight Governance

• Hospitals Seek to Engage Physicians in CDI

• Documentation Key to Core Measures Reporting

• Let Your Résumé Do the Talking

• ROI Processes Continue to Evolve

• HIM Professionals Get Into Genomics

• Does the Government Spy on PHI?

• Mined EHR Data Yield Impressive Results

• Two Systems, One Direction

• Five Challenges Facing Transcription Managers

• Hospital Adopts Novel Notetaking Approach

• Create Worry-Free Problem Lists

• How to Select a Perfect CAC Solution

• An International Perspective on HIM

• The Essentials of Policy and Procedure Management

• CDI's Far-Reaching Benefits

• When Disaster Strikes

• Copy and Paste Leads to Coding Headaches

• Capturing Cancer Data in Real Time

• How to Measure MPI Duplicate Rates

• Query Guidelines Get a Makeover

• Q & A With AHIMA President Frawley

• Life in an EHR World—Where Do HIM Professionals Fit?

• Control Your Data Domain

• Use Informed Consent to Better Engage Patients

• Addressing Coder Shortages From Within

• Big Year Ahead for Disclosure Management

• CDI Extends Its Reach to Outpatient Settings

• Setting the Stage for MU’s Next Act

• Relieve Document Management Headaches

• The Changing Face of Release of Information

• ICD-10: Give Them Something to Talk About

• Medical Scribes Make Their Presence Felt

• Partners in High Finance

• To Catch a Thief

• The Emergence of Physician Advisors

• ACOs Face Quality Measure Challenges

• Where Does the Paper Go?

•Optimize Your Data for Better Care

• Shortage of Cancer Registrars Raises Concerns

• Big Data Creates Big Privacy Concerns

• Good Neighbors—Canada’s Experience With Coding Diabetes in ICD-10

• When Is It Time to Part Ways With Medical Records?

• Make Revenue Cycle Management a Team Effort

• How HIM Companies Primp for Investors

• Precise Documentation Equals Fewer Compliance Headaches

• Patient Engagement, Interoperability Key to ACO Success

• Intent on I-10 Implementation

• Coping With Coding Audits

• Tear Away From Paper Records

• The Perils of ROI in a Hybrid Environment

• Identifying Patients in HIEs

• Cancer Registrars Step Up to New Challenges

• Experts Analyze the Viability of Remote CDI Programs

• Make Disaster Planning a Priority

• HIM Plays Leading Role in Safety, Quality Issues

• Operation Data Rescue

• Time Is Now for MTs to Tout Their Skill Sets

• AMIA Addresses Data Capture Deficiencies

• Negotiating Cloud Computing Contracts

• Are Post-Acute Care Transfers a Goldmine for RAC Audits?

• Ethical Business Practices in Transcription

• More Providers Looking to Implement New RCM Systems

• ICD-10’s Reach Goes Beyond HIM

• Experts Analyze the ACO Reporting Requirements

• Physician Buy-In Essential to CDI Programs

• How to Stay Relevant in the HIM Biz

• Tick, Tick, Tick—The ICD-10 Deadline Approaches

• The Ins and Outs of the ACO Final Rule

• Tackling Revenue Disrupters

• The Hazards of Note Bloat

• Discovery Processes in the Electronic Age

• Writing Effective Physician Queries

• HIM Heroes

• New Data Management Horizons for Registrars

• Keep Tabs On Data Using Enterprise Content Management

• Coding’s New World

• State HIEs Face Assessment Deadline

• Life in a Hybrid Medical Record Setting

• Release of Information Management

• The Aurion Project Makes HIE Inroads

• CDI Programs React to Value-Based Purchasing

• Quality Assurance Keeps Transcription on Track

• Meet the New Boss

• Medical Device Integration — More Than Meets the Eye

• Foreign Conquest: Tips for Opening Offshore Operations

• Recognizing Excellence in Revenue Cycle Management

• Chart Auditing: How to Spot Documentation Flaws

• OCR Layin’ Down the Law on Noncompliant Providers

• ICD-10: Two Questions to Ponder

• HIM's Role in the Revenue Cycle

• How to Measure Clinical Documentation Improvement Effectiveness

• Raising Cancer Care

• A Documentation Improvement Success Story

• Lean Management Helps Reshape Healthcare

• Copy Fees: The Battle Continues

• HIM Programs Move With the Times

• The MT Credentialing Debate

• The Perils of Copy-Paste

• Computer-Assisted Coding Gets the Job Done

• Get Transcription Overflow Under Control

• Student Counsel: HIT Grad Survival Guide

• How to Handle Hybrid Medical Records

• Keys to Effective Breach Management

• Learn How ICD-10 Affects Documentation Practices

• 2010’s Overlooked Noisemakers

• The CCD Standard: Building Blocks for Better Data Exchange

• EMR/RCM Integration Reshapes HIM Roles

• Establishing Reality-Based Turnaround Times

• Automating Forms Saves Time and Space

• Meaningful Use Complicates Release of Information

• HIM Difference Makers

• Reap the Rewards of Enterprise Content Management

• Should HIEs Obtain Consumer Consent?

• The EHR Life Cycle

• Electronic Document Management Systems: Much More Than Scanning

• Adult Educational Principles in Clinical Informatics

• Unreasonable ROI Request?

• Documentation Programs Boost Bottom Lines

• Plug Into the Future of Cancer Registry Practices

• EHR Management in a Hybrid Setting

• HIM Field Braces for an Estimated 50,000 New Professionals

• Escape Query Quandaries

• A Snapshot of Healthcare 2009

• Happy, Healthy & Wise — Keys to Smooth Practice Management

• Never Say Good-Bye to Medical Records?

• Cancer Registrars Prepare for the Electronic Era

• Dealing With Downtime: How to Survive If Your EHR System Fails

• Cloud Computing: IT in the Sky

• Document Management in EHR Adoption

• HIM Professionals and EHR Education Opportunities

• Ushering in Change: ARRA Adds New Challenges to ROI Requests

• HIM Transformers

• Buyer Be Aware of VBCs

• Transcription’s Holy Grail: Standard Quality Measures

• Living in a Hybrid World

• The Effects of New CTR Education Requirements

• Navigate ROI Nuances

• Advice for New HIM Graduates

• Dispose Properly of Patient Files

• Telling the Full Story Through the Health Story Project

• Take Documentation Out of the Dark

• Process Mapping and the Revenue Cycle

• Disaster Recovery — Lessons From Tulane’s Response to Katrina

• Find the Perfect Release of Information Fit

• Growing the HIM Curriculum

• Time to Reengineer the HIM Department?

• Healthcare 2009: A Scramble for Answers?

• Best of Both Brains — Electronic Cancer Registry

• It’s a Wrap — The Year in Healthcare

• Chart a Course for Better Documentation

• All Aboard — Building Consensus to Make Change Happen

• Conquering ROI Backlogs

• Shaking Down the Money Tree — 2008 Salary Survey

• Intelligent Language Processing — A Brighter Approach to Speech Recognition

• CDA4CDT Standards — Satisfying a Craving

• Seal the Deal — Negotiating Coding Vendor Contracts

• A Panoramic View of Revenue

• HIM Career Choices: Now in More Colors

• Times Are Changing — Delivery of Transcribed Reports

• Coding Under Scrutiny  — The Power of Auditing

• Talk of the Town — Guidelines for Better Dictation Practices

• Reshaping Cancer Registry — Connecting Data, Improving Care

• Paired for Success — Concurrent Coding Programs

• Pulp Friction: Destroying Confidential Information

• Document Management: Going Digital

• Seeing Green — Streamling the ROI Process Can Turn Headaches Into Revenue

• Speech Recognition in the ED — and Beyond

• A Tall Order — What to Do With Old Paper Records

• Healthcare 2008: The Shape of Things to Come