By Barbara Carr, RHIA Hospitals are facing a severe labor shortage of both skilled and unskilled workers. COVID stress and burnout, on top of retirement of the baby boomers, as well as the new vaccine mandates have all contributed to the shortage of labor. American...
By Barbara Carr, RHIA As leaders in HIM, we understand that attorney requests for medical records are more complicated and require additional scrutiny and time than the average request for medical records. There are usually many calls back and forth regarding the...
By Barbara Carr, RHIA AHIMA21 was unlike any I can remember in recent years. Of course, my first AHIMA Convention was 40 years ago. AHIMA’s focus today is nothing like it was back then. Back then there were dictation systems with tapes and discs, transcription was...
By Linda Kloss HHS officials discussed the nuances of how Right of Access is handled under the HIPAA Privacy and Information Blocking Rules in last week’s Verisma-sponsored Webinar HIPAA Right of Access and Information Blocking.[i] We are grateful to Elisabeth Myers,...
This first Health Information Access Week has brought together a range of perspectives on serving consumers, mitigating risks and deploying technology. We’ve been privileged to learn from experts who bring a lifetime of experience and insight to the changing...
With years of HIM leadership experience under my belt, my current role as Director of Corporate Compliance requires me to step back to see the big picture. As I read about the nineteenth OCR HIPAA settlement, it should give pause as to how we got here. HIM...
