Paper doesn’t get the publicity these days, but maintaining current and legacy paper-based health records continues to be important to day-to-day HIM operations. Understanding how to [...]

One step to help the industry make the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS will be temporarily suspending updates to the code set as the October 2013 deadline gets [...]

Organizations can find further guidance on developing electronic signature policies in the online version of the November–December practice brief “Electronic Signature, Attestation, and Authorship (Updated).” The [...]

The Federal Trade Commission has announced a new delay for the Red Flags Rule. Enforcement will now begin June 1, 2010. The delay, announced October 30, comes [...]

Keeping the organization’s master patient index clean leads some HIM departments all the way back to patient registration, where they collaborate to prevent errors before care [...]

The cover story in the November-December Journal examines how healthcare organizations can plan to resolve the anticipated influx of disputed information in EHRs and PHRs. Other features outline downtime planning [...]