(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA's Health Information Integrity Summit by Sandra Kersten, MPH, RHIA, AHIMA, director of HIM Solutions.) Kathy Kenyon, JD, senior policy analyst for the Office of the National Controller for Health Information Technology, framed several key issues relating to EHRs and Health Information ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Julie A. Dooling, RHIT, a director of HIM Solutions for the American Health Information Management Association.) We live in a world where data and information are collected in many systems throughout our health care organizations, and most are often integrated into an EHR. Sharing information inside ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Sandra Kersten, MPH, RHIA, who is AHIMA director of HIM Solutions.) Aneesh Chopra, the former first American federal chief technology officer of the U.S., described President Obama's overall vision for innovation, or ''how will this country get its mojo back?'' within the context of ...

A press release issued by the American Medical Association states that the AMA and state and national medical specialty societies sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expressing serious concern about an onslaught of overlapping regulations that affect physicians. The AMA cited the value-based ...

With patients across the country voicing a growing desire for greater engagement in and control over their medical care, a new study involving patients in Boston, Pennsylvania and Seattle will examine the impact of letting patients see the notes that doctors record during and after their visit. Funded through a $1.4 million grant from the ...

I just finished reading Traffic--no, not the one about the drug trade; the one about why we drive the way we do. And let me tell ya, I'll never look at my commute the same way again. It's a painstakingly researched book, with the author consulting everyone from LA traffic controllers to entomologists (ants are meticulous movers, after all) ...

After scores of debate, health care reform has finally passed. President Obama is expected to sign the bill into law today, launching a landmark overhaul of the health care system. Great-what's it mean for you? I had the same question, so I trolled around some articles and analyses on the lookout for measures that could affect the HIM ...

I first heard about Dave deBronkart, aka ''e-patient Dave'' about a year ago when I attended HealthCamp Philadelphia, and I've been following him ever since (literally-the man's all over Twitter). He's one of the most vocal proponents of getting patients more involved in their care, and the folks in Washington have taken notice. He's become a de ...

Hundreds of thousands are injured, communications are scant and trauma centers are makeshift, at best. So how are medical records maintained? They're not, according to reports surfacing from Haiti. Eyewitness accounts tell of overrun hospitals resorting to rudimentary record-keeping processes--pieces of paper tacked to beds and bodies, listing ...

If you've already pored through the NPRM on ''meaningful use'' and the IFR on electronic health record (EHR) implementation standards, then bravo. That's a whopping 692 pages in total--a major undertaking for anyone coming back from the holiday weekend. Not quite ready to hunker down on the Federal Register's site, I surfed over to a Healthcare ...