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Social Media Births Word of the Year
November 19, 2009 10:54 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
In case you haven't heard, the New Oxford American Dictionary selected "unfriend" as the 2009 Word of the Year. And in case you really haven't heard, "unfriend" is a social networking term, referring to the act of removing someone from your list of contacts Read More...
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How Do You Unwind?
October 23, 2009 9:43 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
October is National Poppin' Popcorn Month, so naturally a few of us at the office decided to celebrate with a culinary nod to those explosive kernels. I went the semi-homemade route, popping a bag and mixing it up with marshmallows, chocolate chips, raisins Read More...
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AHIMA 2009: The Health Information Bill of Rights
October 6, 2009 8:41 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
At a news conference yesterday, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) unveiled its Health Information Bill of Rights, a set of seven principles designed to protect and promote patient access to personal health information. Craig Read More...
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AHIMA 2009: Off to Grapevine
October 2, 2009 10:11 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Anytime someone mentions this year's American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention and Exhibit, I immediately think of the song, "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," because, well, the event's being held in Grapevine, TX. Problem Read More...
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Social Media Blitz
September 23, 2009 9:59 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Today's the day! All that " social media coverage " I've been hinting at is now available for your browsing pleasure. (Even some of our regulars like Management Q&A , Registry Perspectives and Student Center got in on the action!) The launch comes Read More...
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What Makes You Tick? Part 2
September 4, 2009 9:47 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
The ADVANCE team likes to be inquisitive (it's part of our job, ya know). Sure, we've met you at conferences, chatted you up on the phone, but we want to know what really goes on in that head of yours. Thus, we introduced "What Makes HIM Professionals Read More...
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How Much Do You Make?
August 26, 2009 9:32 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Pst . How's your salary looking? Did you finally get that raise, or is your facility paying like it's 1999? Our National HIM Salary Survey is back to help gauge your weight on the payment scale. With the rough-and-tumble economy, we're curious to see Read More...
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Online Spat Involves CPT Codes
July 10, 2009 5:58 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
From time to time, we all complain. We used to keep it among friends, family or a goldfish with a compassionate ear, but with the advent of social media, it's become all too easy to tweet a 140-character rant for all to hear. Now, a physician is using Read More...
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What Makes You Tick?
June 19, 2009 1:22 PM by Lynn Jusinski
I was tickled that 500 of you took the time to fill out our fun, brief survey on "What Makes HIM Professionals Tick?" A second installment is currently posted on our Web site , and I hope the response is as good for that one. Thanks to everyone who took Read More...
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What a Difference a Year Makes
May 20, 2009 9:51 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Around this time last year, I was schlepping clothes, photos and a hodgepodge of kitchenware from my college house to my mom's place, an hour away. I was in that weird place between incredible relief that classes were over and immense grief as I said Read More...
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Twitter, FTW!
April 28, 2009 9:15 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
For those of you unaccustomed to Twitterspeak, "FTW" stands for "For the win," a throwback to those great sports moments when an athlete takes a game-winning shot. It's a way to express your love or appreciation-a more efficient way to say "This rocks!" Read More...
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Even My Boarding Pass is Electronic
April 3, 2009 4:35 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
Well, devoted readers, conference season has officially begun. As Lynn already noted, we're both jetting off to find out what's the latest and greatest HIM has to offer. Tomorrow, I'm off to Chicago for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Read More...
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Hope Everyone Behaves on the Planes
April 3, 2009 10:44 AM by Lynn Jusinski
The ADVANCE staff will be rather far flung early next week. Cheryl McEvoy is heading off to Chicago for the HIMSS conference, and I'm boarding a flight to Las Vegas early Sunday morning to take in the AAPC show. We'll be bringing you all sorts of conference Read More...
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A Few of Your Favorite Things
February 27, 2009 4:34 PM by Lynn Jusinski
As Lisa Algeo, editor of ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals , noted in her editorial in our February issue, we're beefing up our Web site, and that means you can now find a few of your favorite things online. AHDI Track is now on the Web, and Read More...
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Spread the Word
February 12, 2009 11:05 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
I'm a self-admitted Facebook junkie. After sitting in front of the computer for 8 hours of work, I head home only to hop on my Mac, scan my personal e-mail and check that notorious time-waster to see if anyone posted new photos or confirmed a friend. Read More...
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