Health Information Management Made Simple - PHI & Beyond 2010 Edition
"Health Information" is a generic term which is the cause of much lost sleep among today's healthcare professionals. How it is gathered, stored, retrieved, transmitted, or disposed of are crucial questions which can determine whether your organization is in violation of important and rigorously enforced laws.
What is "health information"? Why is it so important? Who has access to it? Who shouldn't have access to it? What are the guidelines related to sharing PHI? Do all staff have access to PHI? When do manual records have to be transferred to digital format? Why is HIPAA the most important law when it comes to health information?
All of these questions are legitimate and important. And quite often, the answers are neither obvious nor immediately available. Health Information Management Made Simple tackles the key issues. It will show you how to begin creating electronic information, how to protect the information and patient privacy and how to become 50% more efficient when creating, storing, or manipulating PHI.