January 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Happy New Year! It's 2012-do you have your HIPAA version 5010 programming done?

January 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Value-based purchasing (VBP).

January 1, 2012
HIM Briefings
December 21, 2011
HIM Briefings

ICD-10 Cerebral Artery Infarction Query

December 21, 2011
HIM Briefings

ICD-10 Myocardial Infarction Query

December 1, 2011
HIM Briefings

Dear reader,

Each month in 2011 we've celebrated MRB's 25th birthday with discounts, contests, giveaways, and bonus special reports and tools (visit www.hcpro.com/downloads/140 to download any you might have missed).

December 1, 2011
HIM Briefings

As hospitals begin to develop more intensive training programs in preparation for ICD-10, coordinators may want to consider how different learning styles will impact the effectiveness of these training sessions. Education has to work for everyone and one size does not always fit all.

December 1, 2011
HIM Briefings

Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC), a 471-bed nonprofit hospital located in Pine Bluff, AR, is the fourth largest medical center in the state and serves 11 counties in south Arkansas. When I started working there in early November 2010, I quickly realized we had a number of opportunities to improve our HIM operations and efficiencies.

December 1, 2011
HIM Briefings

Editor's note: Train staff members on ICD-10-CM with the following quiz, excerpted from the ICD-10 Training Toolkit published in November by HCPro, Inc. For more information, visit www.hcmarketplace.com/prod-9730.

December 1, 2011
HIM Briefings

The need for qualified health information technology (HIT) professionals will increase substantially over the next five years as more hospitals migrate away from paper records and convert to EHRs, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics study. As a result of this growing need, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), in conjunction with Northern Virginia Community College, ­AHIMA, and Pearson VUE, designed the HIT Pro exams as a means to verify the competency of HIT professionals.

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