In 2009 NYPHS senior leadership challenged its quality implementation team to identify innovative and cost-effective approaches to provide education, promote collaboration through best practice sharing, and provide data benchmarking support to system hospitals in an attempt to optimize coding accuracy for both quality metrics and reimbursement.
Check out the latest news from AHIMA’s 82nd Convention and Exhibit in Orlando, FL, in the Tuesday issue of AHIMA Today, the convention daily newsletter. Use your [...]
The July “Coding Notes” article “Establishing a CDI Program” outlines how St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA, set up its clinical documentation improvement program, moving [...]
The online version of the May practice brief “Guidance for Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs” includes two additional, Web-only appendixes. Appendix B outlines possible policies and procedures [...]
Iris scanners, palm pattern readers, and other once-futuristic devices are becoming more common as providers turn to biometrics to reduce patient identification errors. A healthcare clinic [...]
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 [...]
New Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius was on Capitol Hill yesterday with two new reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in [...]
For organizations that allow clinicians to carry forward clinical documentation in electronic records, auditing its proper use is key to ensuring document integrity. Copying clinical documentation [...]
