On December 5, 2020, Alaska state health officials reported 933 new COVID-19 cases, a new high for the number of cases reported in one day in Alaska.
Tag: electronic health records
Living with EHR Errors: MPI Deep Cleaning and Modern Search
At best, data cleanups are temporary. And accumulated errors cause EHRs to fail to find medical records or patients to be confused with other patients, or result in duplicate or…
Strategies for Managing Patient Identification and Remote COVID-19 Testing
There is currently no national strategy requiring collection of certain patient demographic data elements, which can lead to inconsistent, dirty data at the beginning of the patient registration process.
AHIMA Webinar Addresses COVID-19 Medical Record Documentation Challenges
As healthcare organizations across the country respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, health information professionals have remained committed to maintaining the privacy, integrity, and availability of health information. Health information professionals…