Project HealthDesign is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program to push the design of next-generation personal health records. Nine design teams received grants to develop forward-looking PHR prototypes that meet unique needs of different patient populations. The prototypes were demonstrated two weeks ago—RWJF has posted a webcast. (more…)

AHIMA has posted an analysis of the ICD-10 Notice of Proposed Rule Making. The analysis is a summary, offered to the healthcare industry as an aid when considering the proposal. It is not AHIMA’s position on the adoption of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. AHIMA will publish its comments and recommendations prior to the close of the public commenting period on October 21. (more…)

The September issue focuses on the growing interest in master’s degrees due to changes in technology and management. It also examines AHIMA’s Virtual Lab and the importance of mentoring new HIM professionals, which both educate and strengthen the HIM work force. The issue also explores some HIM departments that are still in the process of rebuilding three years after Hurricane Katrina.

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The 2008 Software and Health IT Guide was published in the September 2008 Journal of AHIMA. This special advertising section is published annually by AHIMA to promote health IT software, products, and services.

The Journal of AHIMA publishes four Buyers Guides a year: Consulting/Outsourcing (February), Transcription (April), Coding (July), and Software and Health IT (September).

Click on the image to view the guide.

In a September feature, writer Gina Rollins talks with several HIM professionals who sought master’s level educations to better manage the development and widespread adoption of health IT and digital information.

She writes, “With EHRs has come the need to better understand and explain how data are defined, analyzed, and interpreted. That includes everything from knowing the ins-and-outs of relational databases, grasping the evolving definitions of the legal medical record, and creating the ability to reproduce data consistently. There also is a burgeoning body of standards, vocabularies and terminologies, and the human factor of managing the transition from paper to electronic media.” (more…)