2022 Article Archive
For The Record helps your business grow by offering you the opportunity to purchase reprints of articles or departments found in the magazine, or link to the article from your website. Share them with clients, colleagues, patients, and students. They're also great for your sales force and tradeshow handouts! Simply select an article below and e-mail us or call 877-652-5295 for more details.
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007
Fall 2022
features
Coding Spinal Procedures
Here’s the scoop on the multiple factors that make these procedures a persistent headache for even veteran coders.
Prompt Response Required
As more requirements take effect, the pressure on release-of-information functions heightens.
The Possibilities Abound
As demand for data experts grows, it’s opening a wide range of career paths for health informatics graduates.
Referential Treatment
While patient matching challenges remain acute, a recent study says referential matching, which uses broader, more comprehensive data, is effective.
departments
News Brief
What happens when genetic testing is incorporated into EHRs?
Audit Alley
To gain the most from revenue cycle automation, providers must be diligent in their approach and not rush to implement.
Technology Trends
Sick of reading reports? Don’t be. Using these tools can measure efficiency, spot errors, and curtail future headaches.
Documentation Dilemmas
MEAT criteria have nothing to do with the latest diet or FDA regulation. Rather, it’s a key acronym health care organizations should be focusing on to keep compliant with documentation guidelines.
HIPAA Challenges
As if the HIPAA landscape weren’t complicated enough, now state attorneys general are initiating more investigations into potential infractions.
By the Numbers
Get the lowdown on health care’s facts and figures.
Summer 2022
features
Shoring Up Safe Harbor
Nailing down the exact meaning of “recognized security practices” would help erase confusion about how organizations can qualify for the safe harbor law.
Diagnosis: A Serious Case of Note Bloat
Long-winded charts are the bane of many a health care organization. What can be done to corral the problem?
Thoroughly Modern HIM Directors
To ensure success, today’s HIM directors require a more varied toolkit.
Words Have Power
A recent study found that, compared with white patients, Black patients had 2.54 times the odds of having at least one negative descriptor in the history and physical notes.
departments
Evolving Education
There are lots of rumors floating around out there about certifications. Two experts are here to set the record straight.
Coding Corner
Artificial intelligence and automation can be game changers for struggling coding departments battling the effects of the pandemic.
Release of Information Report
HIM departments must be cognizant of the proposed HIPAA changes that are likely to take effect in the near future.
Industry Perspectives
Learn how one organization used technology to provide better care to patients affected by social determinants of health.
Health IT Happenings
To improve the quality of care to older adults, researchers are exploring the best ways for care partners to access patient portals.
By the Numbers
Get the lowdown on health care’s facts and figures.
Spring 2022
features
Defining the Designated Record Set
Variation in how health care organizations decide which types of records are included in their DRS has led to longstanding inconsistencies and confusion.
Be on the Lookout for New Critical Care Service Policies
Split/shared and critical care rules are set to undergo a makeover in 2023. Now’s the time to prepare, experts say.
Internal Audits Help Combat Payer Risk
By adopting three
important strategies, health care organizations can take charge of their revenue compliance gaps.
departments
Documentation Dilemmas
What portion of consultation notes should be made available to patients? It’s a dicey question that carries with it quality-of-care consequences.
HIPAA Challenges
When it comes to release of information processes, health care organizations should embrace help from the Office for Civil Rights.
Audit Alley
With the pandemic in a better place than it’s been in quite a while, many facilities are anticipating an uptick in Recovery Audit Contractor audits. Here’s how to hit the ground running.
Coding, CDI, and Revenue Cycle Management Guide
HIM Challenges
Part one of a three-part series on the pandemic’s effect on HIM operations examines how the shift to a remote workforce has been playing out.
By the Numbers
Get the lowdown on health care’s facts and figures.
Winter 2022
features
The X-Factor
With nonbinary birth certificates gaining more acceptance, HIM departments may have to re-examine certain practices.
Modernizing the Aggregation, Usability of Cancer Data
Still largely a manual process, data abstracting is nevertheless slowly but surely moving in the direction of automated data flows.
Hit a CDI Roadblock? Maybe Your Success Metrics Need a Tune-Up
To ensure processes are running smoothly, look inside the many variables that factor into the equation.
Health Care’s Digital Health Balancing Act
Concerns about the vulnerability of third-party apps designed to give patients more access to their health records are giving security experts pause.
departments
ROI Report
On the other side of the release-of-information equation are the facilities receiving the data. What “rights” must be in place for them to be able to accept medical records and images?
HIPAA Challenges
Personal devices inside health care organizations pose several security risks. How can organizations best handle the situation?
Evolving Education
For health informatics professionals, there’s never been more of an opportunity to start or expand a career.
Coding Corner
When coupled with properly targeted education, systematic coder audits can play an important role in reducing compliance risk and revenue leakage.
Health IT Happenings
Software solutions can act as a universal conduit for patient information, helping providers gather and organize data across the health system.
By the Numbers
Get the lowdown on health care’s facts and figures.
1721 Valley Forge Road #486
Valley Forge, PA 19481