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AHIMA Appoints Mona Calhoun as Board President/Chair, New Board Members

by Jasmine Pennic 01/19/2024 Leave a Comment

AHIMA Appoints Mona Calhoun as Board President/Chair, New Board Members

What You Should Know: - The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) announced the appointment of Mona Calhoun, PhD, MS, Med, RHIA, FAHIMA, as its President/Chair for 2024. - With 35 years of experience in the health information (HI) field, Calhoun brings a wealth of expertise and passion to lead AHIMA through this transformative time in healthcare. A seasoned leader with a clear vision Calhoun's diverse background spans behavioral health, rehabilitation, acute
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AHIMA Launches Data for Better Health™ Initiative

by Jasmine Pennic 10/09/2023 Leave a Comment

AHIMA Launches Data for Better Health™ Initiative

What You Should Know:  - Today, the American Health Information Management Association® (AHIMA) unveiled its groundbreaking initiative, Data for Better Health™, at its annual conference, AHIMA23, in Baltimore, MD. - The Data for Better Health initiative is poised to revolutionize the healthcare landscape by enhancing awareness of the transformative potential of social determinants of health (SDOH) data to improve health outcomes.  Data for Better Health Initiative
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M&A: AHIMA Acquires HCPro

by Fred Pennic 10/03/2023 Leave a Comment

M&A: AHIMA Acquires HCPro

What You Should Know:  - The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) today announced that it acquired HCPro and its associated brands from Simplify Compliance. The strategic acquisition broadens the reach of both organizations.   - AHIMA will operate HCPro as a for-profit, wholly-owned subsidiary, enabling the organization to remain focused on caring for its clients.   HCPro Background HCPro is an industry leader in integrated information,
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How Digital Transformation is Accelerating Healthcare and the Impact on Hospitals in the Future

by Dave Bennett, CEO of pCare 04/28/2023 Leave a Comment

How Digital Transformation is Accelerating Healthcare and the Impact on Hospitals in the Future

The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health technologies across the healthcare industry. Digital transformation is now the top priority for many healthcare leaders as they seek to build resilient systems. At its core, this means implementing emerging digital technologies to modify essential operations, processes, and services to ease staff workload and withstand future challenges. The primary drivers of digital transformation are consumerism, cost, and experience/expectations,
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EMPI/MPI: An End-to-End Approach to Patient Data Integrity

by Lora Hefton, Executive Vice President, Harris Data Integrity Solutions 08/19/2022 Leave a Comment

EMPI/MPI: An End-to-End Approach to Patient Data Integrity

Maintaining patient data integrity is more complicated than ever; cybersecurity threats loom, patients are taking more ownership of their care (self-registration, for example) and health system merger activity is on the rise. It can make the quest for the ever-elusive 1% maximum duplicate rate seem, at times, unattainable. But a secure, accurate, and duplicate-free MPI/EMPI can be achieved. It just requires a multi-pronged approach to protect data throughout its journey into a health system
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AHIMA to Provide MEDITECH Expanse EHR Training to 16k Students

by Fred Pennic 09/18/2020 Leave a Comment

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What You Should Know: - The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has selected MEDITECH to provide access to digital training for 16,000 students in over 300 colleges and universities using MEDITECH Expanse EHR. - MEDITECH Expanse will be offered as part of the AHIMA VLab™ — an online-based health information environment that features multiple software applications and corresponding lab lessons. MEDITECH is extending its relationship with The American Health
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Coding in Age of COVID-19: Deciphering Coding Nuances, Best Practices

by Jennifer Bishop CCS, CCS-P, CIRCC Vice President, Product Content Vitalware 05/01/2020 Leave a Comment

Coding in Age of COVID-19: Deciphering Coding Nuances, Best Practices

Without much warning, the novel Coronavirus, or COVID-19, has taken over our healthcare system. It has taxed our healthcare workers, our national stockpiles of PPE, and affected millions of Americans nationwide. In addition to healthcare workers on the front lines, the pandemic has also impacted the healthcare revenue cycle, causing major confusion, questions, and inconsistencies as coding specialists learn the latest COVID-19 codes and guidelines at warp speed. With cases rising by the tens of
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Executive Insights: Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2020

by Fred Pennic 12/31/2019 Leave a Comment

Executive Insights: Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2020

As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare industry executives to share their predictions and trends for 2020. Robbie Hughes, Founder, and CEO, Lumeon “Following the announcement of the Trump administration's price transparency requirement – and the ensuing backlash from hospital groups – the issue of price transparency will dominate the healthcare industry next year. Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit, I expect we'll see more attention around the importance of the
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Referential Matching—What It Is and Why It Matters for Providers

by Letha Stewart, Director of Customer Relations at QuadraMed 07/23/2019 Leave a Comment

Referential Matching—What It Is and Why It Matters

Clean patient data is the critical first step for any successful health IT integration, EHR conversion, interoperability initiative or electronic information exchange. According to a recent Pew Charitable Trusts report, most hospital executives and administrators believe the accuracy of patient matching when information is exchanged between organizations with different EHR systems is subpar. Further, as health systems continue to consolidate and add more data to their networks, the importance of
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AHIMA, AHCA Partner to Train Skilled Nursing Facilities in ICD-10 Coding to Prepare for New Patient Driven Payment Model

by Jasmine Pennic 04/04/2019 Leave a Comment

AHIMA, AHCA Partner to Train Skilled Nursing Facilities in ICD-10 Coding to Prepare for New Patient Driven Payment Model

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has announced a collaboration with the American Health Care Association (AHCA) to provide in-depth coding and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) training programs. The goal of the collaboration is to help professionals in skilled nursing facilities (SNF) prepare for the upcoming payment reimbursement change.New, Value-based Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) Beginning October 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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