ahima-perspectives

Patients’ and Physicians’ Perspectives About Using Health Information Technology in Diabetes Management in Iran: A Qualitative Study

By Zari Dehnavi, MSc; Haleh Ayatollahi, PhD; Morteza Hemmat, PhD; and Rowshanak Abbasi, MD

Diabetes mellitus is known as a major chronic disease that has a number of consequences affecting individuals’ health conditions and socioeconomic aspects of life. These challenges require innovative interventions, such as self-management to improve patients’ health condition and...
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Defining the Medical Record: Relationships of the Legal Medical Record, the Designated Record Set, and the Electronic Health Record

By Phyllis T. Floyd, RN, BSN, MBA, NE-BC; Jim C. Oates, MD; Julie W. Acker; and Robert W. Warren, MD, PhD, MPH.

Not so long ago, defining the “medical record” was simple. It was the paper chart—volume upon volume that captured the serial, dutifully recorded events of a person’s health care at a hospital or physician’s office. Entries were typically handwritten, dated and...
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From NASA to Healthcare: Real-Time Data Analytics (Mission Control) Is Reshaping Healthcare Services

By Jessica Schlicher, MD, MBA; Matthew T. Metsker, PA-C, MPAS, MHA, FHM, CMPE; Hitul Shah, MS; and Haluk Demirkan, PhD

This is a case study of the implementation of a data and analytics-enabled Mission Control at one of the largest healthcare service providers in the state of Washington. Using data analytics and artificial intelligence, CHI-Franciscan (one of the largest healthcare organizations in state of...
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Upcoding Medicare: Is Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Increasing

By Alberto Coustasse, DrPH, MD, MBA, MPH; Whitney Layton, MS; Laykin Nelson, MS; and Victoria Walker, MS

Medicare fraud has been the cause of up to $60 billion in overpaid claims in 2015 alone. Upcoding occurs when a healthcare provider has submitted codes for more severe conditions than diagnosed for the patient to receive higher reimbursement. The purpose of this study was to assess the...
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