(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.) The American Health Information Management Association's Health Information Integrity Summit: The Quest for Safe, Usable, Quality Data in EHRs opened Thursday in Chicago with great insights ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog is written by Glen McDaniel, a writer and healthcare consultant from Atlanta.) There has been an ongoing debate about the power of vitriolic speech in the aftermath of the shooting tragedy in Tuscon where a gunman killed 6 people and wounded 13 others including a U.S. Congresswoman. Most concede it is difficult to ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog is written by Dan Pelino, General Manager, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences.) At many hospitals, there is a virtual turnstile at the front door -- clicking every time someone walks in. As a hospital administrator, you win by 15 percent if the patient walking in is privately insured but you take a six percent hit if ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog is written by Matthew T. Patton (mpatton@advanceweb.com), editor of ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals.) Wall Street failures. The housing market and mortgage industry collapse. The epic, disastrous BP oil spill. Huge mistakes with dire consequences for a large chunk of the global population. How can ...