HIM departments are increasingly being drawn into revenue recovery decisions while also being asked to help ensure coding and documentation workflows remain accurate, traceable, and defensible.
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.
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.
