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VOL. 28 NO. 3 MARCH 2016
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Be the Sherlock Holmes of Your Organization AHIM
President & CEO Kathleen Czermanski Vice P
CONTENTS 22
Thousands Succeed with AHIMA's Coding Webi
INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES DATA BANKS OR GARB
Misguided CDI While the concept of CDI is
AUDITING ALLEY KEEP WATCH FOR MEDICA
viruses. One of the most effective defenses again
What’s Your HIT Cost-conscious organizations are
Hiring Strategy? some of the changes we’re see
from 18 to 24 months to get an EHR system up and
decide that the system administrator is a hospita
Keeping registries accurate and complete within t
Data Integrity at the Forefront of Cance
As health care organizations consider strat
including pathology reporting, positive radiology
PHI VALUABLE &VULNERABLE It’s this combination o
F rom the med
operations center team or managed security servic
Mitigate MEDICAL NECESSITY DENIALS BY LISA A
Why people + process + technology =
practices, including those that the hospital owns
burden. Consider the following ways in which tech
CODING CORNER CONVERGING CAREER PATH
of offered diagnoses/DRGs that match the final cod
INSIDE INFORMATICS MIDDLEWARE MA
care to create new information also drives data c
NEWS BRIEFS NQF Provides Guidance on
Vendors Pledge to Share Data The Patient Sa
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