(This guest blog was written by Bill Sinn, marketing director, healthcare practice, Pitney Bowes Software.) It's only three years since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by President Obama, and the industry is already seeing huge changes. For instance, the U.S. has expanded the number of citizens receiving preventative care, ...

In anticipation of the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition to be held March 3 to 7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, ADVANCE interviewed Bonnie Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, senior director of HIM Innovation at Nuance and AHIMA approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer. Cassidy spent the majority of her career on the ...

  (Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Alisa Ray, executive director, CCHIT.) The advent of health information exchanges (HIE) has added a new level of complexity to the challenges facing both healthcare providers and health information management professionals. Even as we work to establish interoperability among EHRs within ...

(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 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 ...

(This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Sandra Kersten, MPH, RHIA, who is AHIMA director of HIM solutions.) Three presentations on release of information (ROI) issues were a focus of Wednesday's educational track at AHIMA's 84th annual Convention and Exhibit in Chicago.Past AHIMA President Rita Bowen, MA, RHIA, CHPS, SSGB, shared her ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Karen Kostick, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P.)What happens when a HIM professional and physician share the same clinical documentation improvement (CDI) mission? Results.  Together, Dr. Jon Elion, CEO and founder, ChartWise Medical Systems Inc., and Darice Grzybowski, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, ...

  (Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Harry B. Rhodes, MBA, RHIA, CHPS, CPHIMS, FAHIMA, who is AHIMA director of HIM solutions.) The goal of Meaningful Use Stage 2 is improved data reuse through standardized, structured, and interoperable exchange of discrete and timely patient information designed to improve the ...

(Editor’s Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Julie Dooling, RHIT, who is AHIMA director of HIM solutions.) Walking into AHIMA’s 84th Annual Convention and Exhibit is like walking into a county fair; you just don’t which way to go! With more than 225 exhibitors to choose from, attendees can earn one Continuing Education Unit ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Shelly Guffey and Dawn Duchek.) The comment period on the proposed rule to delay ICD-10 closed on May 17, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is still in the process of reviewing those comments and deciding how the industry will proceed. Providers are uncertain about when ICD-10 ...