HIM professionals have an increasingly important role in determining who can access protected health information (PHI), what information they can see, and how that access is monitored.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer something we are simply anticipating in healthcare revenue cycle operations. It is changing how documentation is reviewed, clarified, prioritized, and translated into coded data.
The prevalence of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) in U.S. hospitals declined between 2015 and 2023, according to a CDC survey recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine.