HIM professionals will need to be fluent in more than Z codes to support social determinants of health initiatives. The relationship between clinical outcomes and such determinants as economic stability,…
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New Eyes on HIM
The new patient-driven payment model is a radical departure from how SNFs were paid previously, and is why many owners and operators are starting to lean on health information management…
HIM Lessons from the Epicenter of the COVID-19 Outbreak
The Journal of AHIMA first talked to Sally Beahan, MHA, RHIA, senior director of enterprise records and health information at UW Medicine in Seattle, WA, in early March, when Washington…
AHIMA Members, Volunteers Share COVID-19 Best Practices
Everybody in every community will play a role in fighting COVID-19. To that end, we have assembled AHIMA’s Practice Councils to provide advice, updates, and best practices health information management…