Having Confidence, Seeking Common Ground Are Keys to Launching IG
In the closing keynote of the 2016 Managing Electronic Records (MER) Conference Wednesday in Chicago, speaker Randolph Kahn, Esq., acknowledged that after two days of presentations about IG, attendees would likely go home feeling overwhelmed.
AHIMA CEO Named To List of Most Powerful Women in Health IT
AHIMA CEO Lynne Thomas Gordon, MBA, RHIA, CPHQ, FAHIMA, was named as one of Health Data Management’s Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT.
AHIMA’s Information Governance Pilot Sites Speak
Two HIM professionals currently immersed in AHIMA’s information governance (IG) pilot program shared, in detail, their experience using AHIMA’s tools to launch their own IG programs during a recent webinar.
Toolkit Teaches How to Advocate for a Patient Safety Identifier
As part of a grassroots campaign to spark a national conversation about patient safety identifiers, AHIMA has released a new toolkit the association hopes HIM professionals will use to help spread the word.
Slideshow: Helping Information Governance Take Root
From planting the seed to pruning new branches, AHIMA’s Information Governance Adoption Model brings IG to life.
Survey: Patient Matching Problems Routine in Healthcare
A recent survey with AHIMA members revealed that over half of HIM professionals routinely work on mitigating possible patient record duplicates at their facility, and of those 72 percent work on mitigating duplicate records weekly. Contributing to the issue, less than half (47 percent) of respondents state they have a quality assurance step in their registration or post registration process, and face a lack of resources to adequately correct duplicates.
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