Comments on: A Call for HIM Action http://journal.ahima.org/2009/04/20/a-call-for-him-action/ The Journal of AHIMA is published monthly by the American Health Information Management Association Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:17:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Deborah Kohn http://journal.ahima.org/2009/04/20/a-call-for-him-action/comment-page-1/#comment-7120 Deborah Kohn Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:14:15 +0000 http://journal.ahima.org/?p=461#comment-7120 Thanks, Bonnie, for this important piece. Thanks, Bonnie, for this important piece.

]]> By: Kelly McLendon http://journal.ahima.org/2009/04/20/a-call-for-him-action/comment-page-1/#comment-6307 Kelly McLendon Fri, 22 May 2009 12:54:49 +0000 http://journal.ahima.org/?p=461#comment-6307 Bonnie's article is right on target. I think most HIM professionals have not yet internalized the staggering implications that the ARRA Privacy and Data Exchange provisons, not to mention EHR adoption, will foster. Many healthcare stakeholders continue to beleive that HIM's role is lessening as prov iders move away from the traditonal paper records. Quite the converse is true, in order to facilitate the Privacy and Data Exhange provisions a 40% increase in HIT professionals is the minuimum estimate. Now is the time for all HIM professionals to get familiar with ARRA and to work towards leadership roles within their own organziations to insure positioning of processes, applications and record management polices that are as efficient as possible and that provde the highest level of safeguards for the electronic health information. Bonnie’s article is right on target. I think most HIM professionals have not yet internalized the staggering implications that the ARRA Privacy and Data Exchange provisons, not to mention EHR adoption, will foster. Many healthcare stakeholders continue to beleive that HIM’s role is lessening as prov iders move away from the traditonal paper records. Quite the converse is true, in order to facilitate the Privacy and Data Exhange provisions a 40% increase in HIT professionals is the minuimum estimate. Now is the time for all HIM professionals to get familiar with ARRA and to work towards leadership roles within their own organziations to insure positioning of processes, applications and record management polices that are as efficient as possible and that provde the highest level of safeguards for the electronic health information.

]]> By: Andy Press http://journal.ahima.org/2009/04/20/a-call-for-him-action/comment-page-1/#comment-4635 Andy Press Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:39:32 +0000 http://journal.ahima.org/?p=461#comment-4635 Thanks for the good information. EMR will take a while to be implemented properly. It will take us many years of struggle and maybe many failures along the way. However, there are always things to be learned and we hope that move us closer each time we fails. Thanks for the good information.

EMR will take a while to be implemented properly. It will take us many years of struggle and maybe many failures along the way. However, there are always things to be learned and we hope that move us closer each time we fails.

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