HIM Briefings

As the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and other agencies place additional focus on Medicare Advantage (MA) risk adjustment, HIM leaders should do the same. 

Discover opportunities for CDI specialists and physician advisors to collaborate on mitigating copy-forward risks.

Identify ways that HIM professionals are accountable for patient data that lives well beyond the electronic health record.

HIM leaders are being asked to protect patient data in an environment that no longer resembles the one HIPAA was originally designed for.

For HIM leaders, coding risk is no longer confined to isolated errors or individual productivity gaps, and pressure is building in two distinct areas. 

Recognize the benefits of increasing meaningful collaboration between CDI and coding teams.

As tools like agentic artificial intelligence (AI) and scribes move from pilot projects into live clinical environments, HIM professionals must determine how to properly govern and validate their use.

Learn how physician-facing technology can make a huge difference for all those involved in the life cycle of medical documentation.

HIM leaders are confronting a familiar challenge that now carries much higher stakes: controlling access to protected health information in environments that are constantly changing.