health information technology and management
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Richard Gartee
CHAPTER
Health Information
Technology and Management
Health Information
Professionals
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Pretest (True/False)
• The American Health Information Management Association was
originally called the Association of Record Librarians of North
America.
• In many healthcare facilities, the CIO manages both the HIM and IT
departments.
• In hospital settings, Registered Health Information Technicians
(RHITs) supervise Registered Health Information Administrators
(RHIAs).
• A DRG coordinator facilitates reimbursements from Medicare.
• One of the jobs of the APC coordinator is to verify that the correct
ICD-9-CM and HCPCS codes have been used on an outpatient
claim.
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History of HIM Organizations
• 1918: American College of Surgeons Hospital
Standardization Program requires hospitals to keep
“accurate and complete medical records for all patients,
filed in an accessible manner”
• 1928: medical records clerks form the Association of
Record Librarians of North America
• 1941: name changes to American Association of Record
Librarians
• 1970: name changes to American Medical Record
Association
• 1991: name changes to American Health Information
Management Association (AHIMA)
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Patient Records: Processing and
Handling
• Efforts improved over time
– Early efforts included:
Analyzing patient charts for deficiencies and
obtaining missing items
Tracking, storing, retrieving, and indexing charts
Creating forms committees to standardize what
appeared on specific forms (now called forms
control)
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Figure 2-1 Flow of inpatient information using a paper chart.
Workflow of Traditional Charts
Forms Control
Notes are recorded
HIM analyzes chart
Chart is
abstracted and
assigned
codes for
billing
Chart is examined
for completeness
Chart is filed
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Evolution of HIM
• Caused by:
– Regulatory reporting, billing, and accreditation
requirements made abstracting, aggregating,
and reporting information collected from
patient charts HIM functions
– Computerization of health information
– Institute of Medicine (IOM) mandate for
creation of “an electronic patient record”
– HIPAA
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Overview of
Health Information Field
• Some health information jobs are more
prevalent in inpatient acute care facilities
than outpatient settings
– Example: large hospital may have a number
of coding specialists
• Some jobs are outsourced to companies
specializing in a particular service
– Examples: medical transcription, computer
security, system trainers
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Figure 2-3 Abridged organizational chart for an acute care HIM department.
HIM Department
Professionals
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HIM Department Professionals
(continued)
• Health information manager:
– Manages HIM department
– Implements and monitors HIM systems,
policies, and procedures
– Educates employees
– Enforces policies
– Requires bachelor’s or master’s degree and
AHIMA certification exam to be RHIA
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HIM Department Professionals
(continued)
• Health information technician:
– Enters medical records data into computer
systems
– Validates accuracy and completeness of
records
– Performs other tasks as determined by needs
and training
– Requires associate degree and AHIMA
certification to become Registered Health
Information Technicians (RHIT)
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HIM Department Professionals
(continued)
• Coding specialists:
– Clinical data specialists
– Clinical coding and reimbursement specialists
• Reimbursement specialists:
– DRG coordinators
– APC coordinators
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HIM Department Professionals
(continued)
• Other HIM professionals:
– Medical transcriptionists
– Cancer or tumor registrars
– HIM compliance specialists
– Optical imaging coordinators
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HIM and IT Comparison
• HIM: concerned with security, accuracy,
and completeness of health records and
the information reported in them
• IT: concerned with operation of HIS
computers as well as phone systems and
other computers
• Both: managed by CIO
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Figure 2-4 Abridged organizational chart for a hospital IT department.
IT Department
Professionals
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IT Department Organization
• Information services (IT) director or
manager:
– Oversees hospital computer systems, and
infrastructure of health information system
– Supervises computer network, databases,
programming, applications, network security,
administration, database administration,
strategic planning, and telecom system
– Works closely with HIM director
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IT Department Organization
• Clinical Project Manager and IT Project Managers
– Help organizations determine scope of work, objectives, budget,
schedule, responsibilities
– Track progress of each component, advise management when
projects are off budget or schedule
– Positions involve attention to detail, planning, risk analysis, and
communication skills
– Both clinical project managers and IT project managers do the
same work, within their respective areas of the organization
– They communicate with each other frequently when two areas
overlap
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IT Department Organization
(continued)
• Other IT personnel include:
– Clinical analysts
– Clinical vocabulary managers
– Clinical applications coordinators
– Data quality managers
– Data resource administrator
– Decision support analyst
– HIS department technicians
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IT Department Organization
(continued) • Other IT personnel include:
– Enterprise applications specialists
– Integration architects
– Health systems specialists
– Solution analysts
– Solution consultants
– Systems analysts
– Information security managers
– Records and information coordinators
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Nonclinical Allied
Health Professions
• Do not involve medical or diagnostic services to the
patient
• Handle and safeguard medical information vital to those
who provide direct services
• Includes all HIS, IT, HIM, and HIT professions
• Examples: medical office managers, registration and
scheduling clerks, medical transcriptionists, computer
system analysts, billing and coding specialists
• Privacy Officer and Security Officer – found in every
acute and ambulatory facility
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Nonclinical Allied Health Professions:
Skill Set Requires Attention to Detail
• Ensure successful operation of healthcare delivery
system
• HIM functions include compiling, storing, retrieving,
and controlling access to patient’s records
• Other HIM functions include coding, abstracting,
and aggregating health information for billing,
reporting, and research
• HIS/IT functions involve computerization of records,
and developing and maintaining systems that
deliver them
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Importance of Multiple Skill Sets
• Development of computerized patient health records and
delivery systems are continuing to create merger
between HIM and HIS/IT departments
• Today’s students should become acquainted with
multiple skill sets regardless of career choices
• Skills to learn: medical terminology, computer
technology, health information management, workflow,
project management, accounting principles, time
management and budgeting principles
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Figure 2-5 Overlapping skill sets of the HIM or IT worker.
HIM and IT:
Overlapping Skills
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Tips From the Field
• Learn medical vocabulary
• Embrace technology
• Learn about what physicians do
• Think big picture; how does your profession fit within all
of the processes at your facility?
• Understand workflow; what is being done and how?
• Learn a little project management; how do you break
down a project into tasks or estimate a timeline?
• Learn a little accounting because it will be helpful across
disciplines