News & Analysis

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.

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.

July 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

A presumption is a belief or hypothesis about something. An assumption is taking a piece of information (as in knowledge about a topic) as a given fact. When you put them together, a presumptive ­assumption is troublesome because you can assume in error.

July 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

EHR security-that's an IT thing, right? Sure it is.

July 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Meaningful use, ICD-10, Recovery Auditors, survey and more surveys-what next? Healthcare is never dull!

July 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

For HIM professionals who took our annual salary survey, it's been a "Yes, but …" kind of year.

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