ICD-10-CM/PCS: Ready or not, here it comes!

August 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Betty B. Bibbins has a message for any healthcare professional-including HIM managers and directors-who struggles to get physicians to document with enough specificity to produce compliant coding and billing: It's your job to tell them how to do it better.

Extra! Extra! Create a coding newsletter to highlight documentation issues for your physicians

August 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene (N.H.), like many others, pays close attention to documentation issues around coding.

Secure mobile devices, portable media, and text messages

August 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

If HIM professionals needed another reason to be ­concerned with protected health information (PHI) ­outside of paper records, a surgery center in Arizona ­provided one in April.

Beat the heat-and boost your staff members' morale

August 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Summers can be wonderful, it's true. But they can ­also be a glowing reminder of what you don't have in your HIM department: a bountiful staff and endless resources.