While evidence of the impact of social risk factors on health outcomes, utilization, and costs is mounting, the efforts to capture and standardize these data is lacking.
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COVID-19 Highlights HIM’s Advance Care Planning Expertise
In a pandemic where patients are making decisions isolated from their families and advocates, healthcare professionals are looking at advance care planning documentation with new urgency.
Bringing Together Administrative and Clinical Data
The two main streams of data relied upon by the healthcare system—administrative and clinical—have developed on separate trajectories, use different technical standards, and are not yet easily integrated. Two federal…
Ready for the Surge
HIM Professionals Take the Lead at COVID-19 Field Hospitals