MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'ahima'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:55:16 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5181980&cid=t_226910_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Fwhy-are-millennials-vital-health-care Before we dive in, it is important to ensure we understand some of the characteristics of the Millennial Generation. The timing of this generation is generally those born between 1978 and 2000 (some say those born after 1980). Some of the characteristics of this generation include:* read more (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5181980 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:14:43 +0100 5181980 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159275&cid=t_226910_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FNeilVerselsHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FRTT7SAYwins%2F As long as there have been EMRs, there have been vendors selling aggregated, de-identified data. And there have been people worried about privacy. That issue came up last week AHIMA Legal EHR Summit right here in Chicago, during a session exploring issues related to data ownership and stewardship in the era of cloud computing. (I’ll have a more complete rundown of the session Monday in InformationWeek Healthcare.) Near the start of the panel, Daniel Orenstein, senior VP and general counsel of Athenahealth tried to put any lingering questions to rest right away. “I think data monetization is kind of a red herring,” Nussbaum said of people who criticize vendors for selling sensitive patient information. According to Nussbaum, de-identified data no longer includes any protec... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159275 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:52:18 +0100 5159275 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5139934&cid=t_226910_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FNeilVerselsHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FMRIneOML2vQ%2F As I heard at AHIMA’s Legal EHR Summit earlier this week, clinical decision support isn’t a perfect science. (Check InformationWeek Healthcare for coverage on Thursday or Friday.) This is especially true when doctors rely too much on Google and don’t actually verify what they find on the Internet. This may sound hard to believe, but not everything posted online is true. Now, the notion that doctors guess with Google has made its way onto the funny pages, specifically in the cartoon Sherman’s Lagoon. To wit:     Hopefully, your own doctor is more qualified than Hawthorne. Related posts:Tasteless joke, but kind of on the mark How doctors use Twitter RIP, Google Health, doomed to fail from the start (Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog) Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5139934 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:41:54 +0100 5139934 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3808732&cid=t_226910_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2010%2F07%2F29%2Fwhat-are-emr-vendors-planning-for-icd-10%2F I remember when I first started my job at a healthcare facility 5+ years ago, I ran into these codes they called ICD-9. Yes, this was all very foreign to me, but I learned quickly the meaning of ICD-9. I also learned quickly that the EMR vendor which had been selected (before I was there) didn’t provide a list of ICD-9 as part of their EMR software (they do now). They did provide an upload feature and so we exported a list out of our old PMS, cleaned them up a little and then uploaded them into the new EMR. Not a fun or effective process even that way. Obviously, we’ve come a long way in five years. There are plenty of free lists of ICD-9 codes around the net that people can use, manipulate and add to their EMR software pretty easily. However, I couldn’t help but wonder w... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3808732 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:35:49 +0100 3808732 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871625&cid=t_226910_88_f&fid=38961&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquantavie.net%2F2009%2F10%2Frights-or-concessions%2F AHIMA’s Health Information Bill of Rights (PDF) The right to access your health information free of charge. The right to access your health information during the course of treatment. The right to expect that your health information is accurate and as complete as possible. The right for you or your personal representative(s) to know who provides, accesses, and updates your health information, except as precluded by law or regulation. The right to expect healthcare professionals and others with lawful access to your health information to be held accountable for violations of all privacy and security laws, policies, and procedures, including the sharing of user IDs and passwords. The right to expect equivalent health information privacy and security protections to be available to all... quanta vie blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871625 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:45:26 +0100 2871625 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871799&cid=t_226910_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fnew-fierce-stories.html For readers of FierceHealthcare, FierceEMR and FierceMobileHealthcare, there's some good conference coverage up there right now. I submitted a story from last week's Healthcare Facilities Symposium to FierceHealthcare and in today's FierceMobileHealthcare, commented kind of tangentally on the Health 2.0 Conference going on now. Plus, publisher Wendy Johnson has submitted stories for FierceEMR from the annual AHIMA meeting down in Grapevine, Texas. The more someone else writes, the less I have to do! (Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog) Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871799 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:08:00 +0100 2871799 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2719785&cid=t_226910_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F08%2F18%2Fupcoming-healthcare-it-conferences%2F Neil Versel posted a list of upcoming Healthcare IT conferences (a few aren’t just IT, but IT will be a large part of it) in the sidebar of his blog. Check out his list: Medical Device Connectivity (Sept., Boston) Medicine 2.0 (Sept. 17-18, Toronto) AHIMA (Oct. 3-8, D-FW) Health 2.0 (Oct. 6-7, SF) MGMA (Oct. 11-14, Denver) Connected Health Symposium (Oct., Boston) CHIME09 (Oct., Indian Wells, Calif.) E-Patient Connections (Oct., Phila.) NIH mHealth Summit (Oct. 29-30, DC) Inst. for Health Tech Transformation (Nov., LA) AMIA (Nov. 14-18, SF) That’s a lot of conferences. Were there any that we missed? That just goes through the end of the year. How do people stay up with all these conferences? I still haven’t made it to HIMSS, but am planning to go to Atlanta in March. I&#8... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2719785 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:56:01 +0100 2719785 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2390015&cid=t_226910_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FlTTJzcTDQuQ%2F We’re all still sitting here waiting for the government to finally decide two key terms in regards to gaining access to the $18 billion in stimulus money in the HITECH act (ARRA). I’ve been interested in the subject myself since before it was even settled that we’d call it meaningful use as opposed to meaningful EMR user. From the looks of that post back in February, there was still a lot of confusion about “meaningful use” and “certified EHR.” Turns out that a few months later, we still have very little clarification about what these two terms mean. Certified EHR discussion has really revolved around CCHIT certification or some other alternative. We’ll try to leave that discussion for other posts. What has been interesting is in just the pas... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2390015 Tue, 05 May 2009 13:19:39 +0100 2390015 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2200346&cid=t_226910_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalit.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fcchit-critic-identified.html (Updated, 4:50 p.m. CST) The lengthy criticism leveled at the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology just got a little lengthier, and we finally know the name of the critic.A "Calvin Jablonski" just added a comment to my post about CCHIT from earlier in the week. This seems like the same person who posted under the name "CJ" on the Wall Street Journal Health Blog last week, a comment subsequently reprinted here and on the Health Care Renewal Blog—there might be others, too—that brought a response from CCHIT Marketing Director Sue Reber on all the same blogs. I searched the name "Calvin Jablonski" and could only find his posts about CCHIT, not any information on his background or interest in this topic. I believe, based on my statistics monitor for this site, tha... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2200346 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:25:00 +0100 2200346