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.

August 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

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

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.

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.