ADVANCE Perspective: HIM : health care

Mammography and the Right to Choose

Lisa Algeo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:59:00 GMT

(Editor's note: This is a guest blog written by Valerie M. Chapman, RN, MSN, a pediatric nurse for 25 years. She is a 3-year breast cancer survivor and lives in Medford, NJ, with her husband and two children.) I am a wife, a mother of two awesome kids,...(read more)

Mammography Screenings Changing?

Lisa Algeo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:25:00 GMT

(Editor's note: This is a guest blog by Lorettajo A. Kapinos, an ED nurse at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA.) Last month was Breast Cancer Awareness month and I blogged about my experience with a false positive mammogram. Ironically, this...(read more)

Giving Health Care a Workout

Cheryl McEvoy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:13:00 GMT

Ouch. That's about all I can say (and really, all I can think) after overexerting myself this weekend. A few of my friends have been doing P90 X, an extreme workout plan that includes several videos, each of which features a different routine, i.e. abs,...(read more)

PHRs Go Overseas

Cheryl McEvoy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:26:00 GMT

If you've been following Jay's blog, " XY Files in and MT World ," recently, you know there have been some frightening reports of medical records being sold overseas. It's enough to make you hunker down in the States and demand your records stay local....(read more)

H1N1: After the Vaccine

Cheryl McEvoy — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:13:00 GMT

Everyone's sick of swine flu (pun not intended, I swear), so apologies in advance for striking up yet another conversation about it, but I couldn't help posting when I heard about post-vaccine monitoring . What? What's that you say? Monitoring? As in...(read more)

Public Tweets, Private Matters

Cheryl McEvoy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:33:00 GMT

I'm wrapping up an extensive print and online package about social media for our September issue (Look for it next week!), and with all the reading, interviewing and, yes, tweeting I did to research the phenomenon, I thought I'd heard everything. Well,...(read more)

Documenting H1N1

Cheryl McEvoy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:44:00 GMT

For the past 2 months, I've been collecting entries for our 2009 HIM Team of the Year contest , and it can be...inundating. (Not that I wouldn't love to see a dozen more entries!) A copy for each judge, plus one for our files-it's a whole bunch of printing...(read more)

Copay Collection Dilemma

Cheryl McEvoy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:54:00 GMT

(Editor's note: This is guest commentary from Lorettajo Kapinos, BSN, RN, who writes the " Tales From an ED Nurse " blog for ADVANCE for Nurses . For more information on upfront billing, read our Web article, " Cover Charge .") Most insurance companies...(read more)

More Options for EHR Approval?

Cheryl McEvoy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:50:00 GMT

Ever since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law, members of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) have been crossing their fingers in hopes of being named the official EHR certification...(read more)

(Mis)information Overload

Lisa Algeo — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:27:00 GMT

(Editor's note: The following is a guest blog from Mark McGraw, staffer on ADVANCE for Health Information Executives ) Earlier this week, Bob Mitchell, our managing editor here at ADVANCE , posted a blog chastising the behavior of some overzealous attendees...(read more)

Health Care Reform: What Women Need

Lisa Algeo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:50:00 GMT

Guest commentary by Sabrina Corlette, director of health policy programs for the National Partnership for Women & Families In the halls of Congress, in the media, in the coffee shops and restaurants of Washington, D.C. -- health care reform is dominating...(read more)

Health Care Nation?

Cheryl McEvoy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:40:00 GMT

Theory: health care is going the way of the fast food industry. A bit counter-intuitive, I know, given the usual wars between those factions over nutrition facts, whole grains and "lighter" meal options. But I'm talking about the business model. More...(read more)

HIPAA be damned?

Lynn Jusinski — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:05:00 GMT

[Editor's note: This is a guest blog by ADVANCE for Nurses editor Lyn A.E. McCafferty, who contributes to the "ADVANCE Perspective: Nurses " blog featured on the ADVANCE for Nurses Web site.] If you think the fictional Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe are bad...(read more)

How Do I Chart That?

Cheryl McEvoy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:13:00 GMT

[Editor's note: This is a guest blog by Bridgette Williams, whose " Transition to RN " blog is featured on the ADVANCE for Nurses Web site.] How do I chart that?" Has this question come up after caring for a challenging patient or after a crisis has occurred?...(read more)

Retail Clinic Check-up

Lynn Jusinski — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:30:00 GMT

I'm what you might call "doctor phobic." I haven't had a check up since 2001, and that was required to get into college. After high school, I moved to the Philadelphia suburbs from quiet nook upstate in a rural area lovingly referred to as the "Polish...(read more)