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Finding Her Way: An HIM Professional Shares Her Journey to Amazon
Finding Her Way: An HIM Professional Shares Her Journey to Amazon
A health information professional working at Amazon? Adrianna Rota Melosky, RHIA, shared her story with the Journal, describing how...
CMS Announces New ICD-10-PCS Codes for COVID-19 Treatments, Effective Aug. 1
CMS Announces New ICD-10-PCS Codes for COVID-19 Treatments, Effective Aug. 1
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented 12 new ICD-10-PCS codes to describe the introduction or...
Privacy at the Crossroads
Privacy at the Crossroads
Read the August Special Issue

Healthcare privacy and information security is at a crossroads. The August issue of the Journal of AHIMA features a collection of five stories that examine information privacy and security through myriad lenses, including the COVID-19 response, hospital and health system models, the development of privacy regulations across the globe, patient identification and matching, and mitigating the threat of cyberattacks.

Streamlined Patient Access Can Revolutionize Healthcare
Streamlined Patient Access Can Revolutionize Healthcare
Telehealth Holds Promise for Mental Health and Racial Disparities in Care
Telehealth Holds Promise for Mental Health and Racial Disparities in Care
A Realistic Approach to Achieving a 1% Duplicate Record Error Rate
A Realistic Approach to Achieving a 1% Duplicate Record Error Rate
The ROI Evolution Continues with Advancement of Interoperability [Sponsored]
The ROI Evolution Continues with Advancement of Interoperability [Sponsored]
AHIMA Policy Statement on Integrating Clinical and Administrative Data
AHIMA Policy Statement on Integrating Clinical and Administrative Data

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AHIMA Policy Statement on Integrating Clinical and Administrative Data
AHIMA Policy Statement on Integrating Clinical and Administrative Data
Imagine a world where health information management teams know in advance the documentation a payer needs to...
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AHIMA Focuses on Privacy During the Month of August
AHIMA Focuses on Privacy During the Month of August
Healthcare privacy and information security is at a crossroads. Increased interoperability, portability, and connectivity of health information...
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Introducing Privacy at the Crossroads
Introducing Privacy at the Crossroads
COVID-19’s impact on global healthcare systems accentuated the vulnerability of health information and has catalyzed its stakeholders...
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Better Together
Better Together
By sharing cyberthreat intelligence, health systems can create better defensive measures against an evolving threat.
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Patient Matching in the Era of COVID-19: Maintaining Control Over Patient Privacy and Data Governance
Patient Matching in the Era of COVID-19: Maintaining Control Over Patient Privacy and Data Governance
COVID-19 is changing nearly everything about the way healthcare organizations operate. From telehealth visits and elective surgeries...
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Privacy’s New Normal
Privacy’s New Normal
Healthcare professionals have applied their expertise not just to the physiological threats of COVID-19, but to the...
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Privacy in a Pandemic
Privacy in a Pandemic
Political and public health leaders scramble to balance privacy and robust disease-tracking capabilities.
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Why Hospitals Need to Rethink Privacy and Information Security Models
Why Hospitals Need to Rethink Privacy and Information Security Models
It’s no longer enough to just be compliant with HIPAA. With the added pressures of today’s health...