In a September story in the print journal, HIM directors in New Orleans discussed the state of their departments three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. [...]

On Friday, August 15, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice of proposed rule making (NPRM) to replace the ICD-9-CM code set. The announcement, issued [...]

This special August issue focuses on physician practices and how HIM professionals can help physicians transition to EHRs, improve documentation, and help with quality reporting. It also examines [...]

In the August magazine, Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, describes how product certification reduces risk and effort in selecting electronic health record systems. Certification also plays a [...]

In the August issue we published a selected bibliography of research and writing on EHRs in physician practices. This is the extended version, as promised in [...]

As EHRs take center stage in the healthcare movement, numerous surveys have attempted to determine their rate of use, affect on quality, and the barriers to [...]