Greetings from your THIMA President! This message is coming to you as a historic moment in THIMA history. This is our first ever e-blast newsletter and you are viewing it on our new “sexy” website. The THIMA Board of Directors is very excited about the new website and our new form of communication to you our members. Please take a moment to read through the e-blast and also navigate through our new website.
THIMA has several workgroups this year to focus on many different areas of our membership and association needs. The following are the chairpersons for each workgroup:
- Awards Committee: Susan McConnell
- Coding Roundtable: Trannie Woodson
- Credentialed Non-Member Outreach: Local HIMA Presidents
- e-HIM Ambassadors: Rita Bowen & Mary Reeves
- HIM Awareness Workgroup: Tracy Conley
- Legislative Committee: Cindy Nixon
- e-Blast News Editors: Emmlee Gray & LaShay Turner
- PHR Awareness Campaign: Anne Dixon
- Physician Outreach: Dianne Wilkinson
- Program Committee for Annual Meeting: Amanda King
- Scholarship: Rob Lowe
- THA Program Development: Julie Appleton
I want to say thank you to the chairpersons as well as the members of those workgroups. Next month, I will highlight some of those workgroups in my e-blast update to keep you, the membership, informed of their agenda and the great progress each of them have made.
Until next time,
Amanda King, RHIA
THIMA President
Make your plans now to attend the 2009 THIMA Annual Meeting, April 15 - 17, Embassy Suites, Franklin, TN!
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Have you wanted to complete a BS degree in Health Informatics and Information Management but haven’t been able to attend school in Memphis full-time? To better meet the needs of everyone interested in the Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics and Information Management, we’ve made some changes for the class starting fall 2009.
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A THIMA member is sharing two tables which are helpful when analyzing MS-DRGs and for coding staff. The data is available at
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/AcuteInpatientPPS/FFD/list.asp?listpage=9.
To access the Combined CC and MCC List for MS-DRGs 2008-2009, please visit
http://www.thima.org/Newsletters/2009/January/MCCandCCcombinedListforMSDRGs20082009.xls
To access MS-DRGs for FY2009, please visit
http://www.thima.org/Newsletters/2009/January/MSDRGTableFY2009doc.xls
For Nurse Practitioners and Physician's Assistant - Is your hospital having your (inpatient and outpatient) orders and dictations countersigned by the responsible physician?
Take the online poll
Do you have a success story or a best practice to share with your peers? THIMA would like you to share your experiences whether they are about implementing new technology, Master Patient Index (MPI) projects, managing in Hybrid or totally paperless environment, etc. Send an email to Donna at
coomesdf@msha.com and we will spread the knowledge across Tennessee in future THIMA newsletters.
Also, don’t miss out on the AHIMA upcoming audio conference January 13 on “Don’t miss The Legal Health Record: Managing in a Decentralized Environment” for more information login on
http://campus.ahima.org/audio/
AHIMA is proud to announce a Copy Functionality Toolkit for professionals working with electronic health records who often struggle in defining and recognizing this technology within their systems. This toolkit is designed to support and guide organizations, HIM professionals, and information technology professionals in the examination of the issues and circumstances wherein the healthcare industry needs to define, support, and execute best practices in dealing with copy technology in the EHR environment. This toolkit, which is free and available to the public, is intended to assist these individuals in developing their own policies and procedures surrounding this functionality.
Click here to view the toolkit.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Web site has been updated with the 2009 version of the general equivalence mappings, updated version of ICD-10-PCS, reimbursement mappings, sample of MS-DRGs converted to ICD-10, and the respective user guides.
Click here to learn more.
Before a packed audience attending the Nationwide Health Information Network Forum in December, HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt announced his department’s long-awaited privacy principles closely associated with health information exchange (HIE). “Finding the balance between increased access to information and privacy is very important. If we don’t have it, we won’t succeed,” Leavitt emphasized. “Consumers shouldn’t be in a position to have to accept privacy risks they don’t want. Each consumer should be able to choose products and services that best fit their health needs and privacy preferences.”
The secretary highlighted eight principles that should extend to consumer personal health information (PHI) use no matter where the information is located or transmitted:
- simple and timely individual access to their PHI;
- correction or amendment of inaccurate or erroneous information in their record;
- openness and transparency as to the policies and practices related to information collection, use, and disclosure;
- individual choice about with whom, when, and how PHI is or is not shared;
- limitation on the collection, use, and disclosure of PHI to “specified purpose”;
- record holders must take reasonable steps to ensure data integrity;
- PHI should be protected with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards; and
- accountability for the stewardship of the PHI by all handlers of that information.
In addition to releasing the principles, “Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information, ”the secretary also announced several tools to help consumers and HIEs advance toward privacy protection and consumer access to their information. These principles and tools can be found at
http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/privacy/.
AHIMA is pleased to announce the release of Leadership Models for e-HIM, a comprehensive suite of tools that guide HIM professionals to visualize, initiate, and lead specific HIM domain initiatives at institutional, regional, and national levels. The tools and techniques provided in the models aspire to help HIM professionals apply theory and technical knowledge using leadership techniques to drive institutions and the healthcare industry toward achieving the vision of e-HIM.
Two leadership models, the Legal Health Record and Data Content Standards, are now available. Additional leadership models will be available in the future.
Click here to download these important free resources.
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