Electronic Health Records and Information Portability: A Pilot Study in a...
Clinical documentation and health information portability pose unique challenges in urban and rural areas of India. This article presents findings of a pilot study conducted in a primary health center...
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Documentation of the care delivered to hospitalized patients is a ubiquitous and important aspect of medical care. The majority of references to documentation and coding are based on the Centers for...
View ArticlePerceptions of Health Information Management Educational and Practice...
Undergraduate students’ progress toward achievement of learning outcomes and entry-level competencies is an essential ingredient in efforts to meet the needs of the evolving national healthcare...
View ArticlePersonal Health Records: Is Rapid Adoption Hindering Interoperability?
The establishment of the Meaningful Use criteria has created a critical need for robust interoperability of health records. A universal definition of a personal health record (PHR) has not been agreed...
View ArticlePreparing for ICD-10-CM/PCS Implementation: Impact on Productivity and Quality
Coding productivity is expected to drop significantly during the lead-up to and in the initial stages of ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation, now expected to be delayed until October 1, 2015. This study...
View ArticleProjected Impact of the ICD-10-CM/PCS Conversion on Longitudinal Data and the...
The transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS is expected to result in longitudinal data discontinuities, as occurred with cause-of-death in 1999. The General Equivalence Maps (GEMs), while useful for...
View ArticleSummer 2014 Introduction
The Summer 2014 issue of Perspectives in Health Information Management features a study examining the differences in coding productivity between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS, findings of a pilot study on...
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