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Issue 52, December 26, 2006

• Four more steps to setting up a security risk assessment

  Below you’ll find more sure-fire techniques to help you continue to make progress planning...

Issue 51, December 19, 2006

• Three steps to setting up a security risk assessment

  Although the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires that...

Issue 50, December 12, 2006

• Institute an incentive plan to increase coding productivity

  Before implementing any financially based incentive plan, obtain approval from your organization's...

Issue 49, December 5, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Use simple forms to improve post-operative note process

  When a surgeon closes up, the job is not done. Before the doctor leaves the operating room, he or...

Issue 48, November 28, 2006

• Gain support from medical staff with ongoing education

  It's a common complaint among HIM directors-a lack of support from the medical staff. However, to...

Issue 47, November 21, 2006

• How to train your own coders

  In many regions of the United States there is a severe shortage of coding professionals. The growth...

Issue 43, October 23, 2006

• Start at the beginning when defining the legal health record

  Defining any term in the healthcare industry is a treacherous process. The industry is constantly...

Issue 31, August 1, 2006

• Use these eight tips to enhance coder performance

  HIM directors are always looking for ways to enhance coder productivity and improve overall...

Issue 30, July 25, 2006

• Use these tips to improve ICD-9-CM coding accuracy

  Deborah Grider, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-P, CCS, CCS-P, president of Medical Professionals, Inc., in...

Issue 29, July 18, 2006

• Use best-practice techniques to improve documentation

  HIM professionals are always looking for ways to make physician documentation easier and more...

Issue 28, July 11, 2006

• Use vendor contracts to draft your EHR project plan

  When you and your EHR steering committee work with vendors to negotiate contracts-whether a...

Issue 27, July 4, 2006

• Follow these tips for completing the patient record

  Depending on your organization, HIM, patient-care services staff, or even volunteers, are...

Issue 26, June 27, 2006

• Create effective policies when adopting EHR and HIT

  It's important to write effective policies that support the adoption of electronic health record...

Issue 25, June 20, 2006

• Consider these techniques for managing change in HIM

  Any major change in HIM should begin with communicating the purpose and benefits of it to the major...

Issue 24, June 13, 2006

• Identify threats to ePHI with these six tips

  Understanding threat components and creating a reference list of threats will get you started in...

Issue 23, June 6, 2006

• Use these four tips to improve your radiology payment odds

  Although hospital radiologists can order additional tests without consulting the primary care...

Issue 22, May 30, 2006

• Combat the transcription-staff shortage with these alternatives

  While transcription timeliness and quality encourage physicians to dictate more and allows them to...

Issue 21, May 23, 2006

• Institute shadowing practices to improve clinical documentation

  Shadowing is a practice that you can integrate into the physician learning process. It pairs a...

Issue 20, May 16, 2006

• Ensure proper billing when dispensing take-home drugs to patients

  Starting July 1, 2006, hospitals must bill their durable medical equipment regional carrier (DMERC...

Issue 19, May 9, 2006

• Make networking, monitoring part of your ongoing compliance efforts

  Privacy officials and compliance officers who believed they could rest on their laurels once the...

Issue 18, May 2, 2006

• Obtain medical staff support for OP-CDI with these strategies

  The first step in designing on outpatient clinical documentation improvement (OP-CDI) program is to...

Issue 17, April 25, 2006

• Recruit coders with these approaches

  There is a severe shortage of coding professionals in many regions of the United States. The growth...

Issue 15, April 11, 2006

• Take the ache out of coding discontinued IR procedures

  Although CMS states that hospitals should report modifier -52 (reduced services) when radiology...

Issue 14, April 4, 2006

• Establish an ongoing records review process with five easy steps

  Just because the requirements for ongoing record reviews have been changed by the Joint Commission...

Issue 13, March 28, 2006

• Complete medical records while patients are in house

  With physician reimbursement declining, regulations increasing, and paperwork quadrupling, it's no...

Issue 12, March 21, 2006

• Include minimum standards in your mobile device policy

  Mobile devices, such as laptop computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and tablet personal...

Issue 5, January 31, 2006

• Work tracer methodology into ORR

  Using the tracer methodology as part of your regular ORR will alert reviewers to the importance of...

Issue 4, April 18, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Understand the tracer methodology survey

  Accurate, complete, legible, and timely medical records will continue to be essential elements for...

Issue 2, January 13, 2006

• Understand and correctly apply the Long QT Syndrome code

  As benign as its name appears, you must pay special attention to the Long QT Syndrome code...

Issue 1, January 13, 2006

• Not all e-signatures created equal

  The proposed HIPAA security rule originally included a standard for electronic signatures--but CMS...