RSS Builder by AHIMA http://www.ahima.org/ News and Alerts from AHIMA.ORG en-us webmaster@ahima.org webmaster@ahima.org 2010 AHIMA 5/10/2012 4:23:37 PM http://ahima.org/downloads/pdfs/pr/press-releases/AHIMA_ICD_Proposed_Rule.pdf webmaster@ahima.org News - Alerts The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) filed a comment letter today to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) leaders in response to a section of a proposed rule that addresses “Change to the Compliance Date for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Medical Data Code Sets.” 5/8/2012 1:16:39 PM http://www.ahima.org/downloads/pdfs/pr/press-releases/AHIMA%20_ARRA-HITECH_Meaningful_Use%20_Comment.pdf webmaster@ahima.org News - Alerts CHICAGO – May 8, 2012 – The proposed rules for Stage 2 of the ARRA-HITECH Meaningful Use electronic health record systems (EHR) were the focus of two comment letters filed by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). The letters were provided to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). 3/30/2012 11:45:09 AM /about/grace.aspx webmaster@ahima.org News - Alerts Grace Award: In Recognition of Excellence in Health Information Management will honor healthcare delivery organizations that demonstrate effective and innovative approaches in using health information to deliver quality healthcare. Nomination applications are now available, and the submission deadline is June 30. The award will be presented at the 84th AHIMA Annual Convention & Exhibit in Chicago, September 29-October 4. 5/11/2012 11:35:15 AM http://bit.ly/JmHatR webmaster@ahima.org News - Alerts The smartphone has emerged as an important technological device to assist physicians with medical decision making, clinical tasks, and other computing functions. A smartphone is a device that combines mobile telecommunication with Internet accessibility as well as word processing. Moreover, smartphones have additional features such as applications pertinent to clinical medicine and practice management. The purpose of this study was to investigate the innovation factors that affect a physician’s decision to adopt an emerging mobile technological device such as a smartphone. The study sample consisted of 103 physicians from community hospitals and academic medical centers in the southeastern United States. Innovation factors are elements that affect an individual’s attitude toward using and adopting an emerging technology. In our model, the innovation characteristics of compatibility, job relevance, the internal environment, observability, personal experience, and the external environment were all significant predictors of attitude toward using a smartphone. These influential innovation factors presumably are salient predictors of a physician’s attitude toward using a smartphone to assist with clinical tasks. Health information technology devices such as smartphones offer promise as a means to improve clinical efficiency, medical quality, and care coordination and possibly reduce healthcare costs. 5/11/2012 11:38:21 AM http://journal.ahima.org/2012/04/30/report-there-are-critical-reasons-for-not-further-delaying-the-implementation-of-the-new-icd-10-coding-system/ webmaster@ahima.org News - Alerts On April 17, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a rule proposing postponement of the implementation date for the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision diagnosis codes (ICD-10-CM) and procedure codes (ICD-10-PCS) by one year to October 1, 2014. An article in Health Affairs titled “There Are Important Reasons For Delaying the Implementation Of The New ICD-10 Coding System” asserts that the ICD-10-CM conversion will be “expensive, arduous, disruptive, and of limited direct clinical benefit.” Contrary to the conclusions in this article, implementation of the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS code sets will provide major advantages over the existing ICD-9-CM code set. Implementation is long overdue and will provide significant cost benefits. 5/15/2012 4:48:33 PM http://journal.ahima.org/2012/04/30/ahima-hill-day-2012-slideshow/ webmaster@ahima.org News - Alerts