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April 2008
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Health care organizations, practitioners, purchasers, oversight
bodies and the public all rely on performance data to determine
priority areas for quality improvement, evaluate performance,
and make informed health care decisions. Yet, most performance
measurement efforts operate in isolation from one another,
rarely provide a consistent picture of overall quality, and
represent a significant cost to the health care industry.
The Joint Commission's newest public policy white paper, “Development
of a National Performance Measurement Data Strategy,” proposes
a framework for creating a data infrastructure to support
performance measurement activities that improve the quality
of American health care. The detailed solutions, proposed
by a special Joint Commission expert Roundtable, focus on
creating a data infrastructure that addresses consumer expectations
for data privacy, supporting a data highway that allows for
data sharing and linkages, and operating under an agreed-upon
set of rules and governance structure.
Read more and download the white paper from The Joint Commission
website, www.jointcommission.org
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MaHIMA's
Winter Meeting & Coding Seminar was a great success!
A great day of education was had by all at our recent MaHIMA
Winter Meeting and Coding Seminar held on January 25th. The
topics included: CIO Update from John Halamka, MD, CareGroup
Health Systems; Process Improvement - Lean/Six Sigma Essentials;
CPT Coding Updates for 2008; Male Infertility & Associated
Clinical Conditions; Correct Coding Initiative in MA; and
Partners LMR LEAP Project. We also had a visit from staff
members of AHIMA, Claire Dixon-Lee, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA and
Patt Peterson , MS , RHIA. MaHIMA Education Director, Bob
Seger, and his staff, including Coding Committee Chairs Shari
Manning & Cathie Wilde, deserve all the credit for putting
together a terrific agenda with timely and informative topics.
Comments from attendees included the following:
“One of the best MaHIMA meetings I've been
to”
“The presentations were excellent – speakers
knowledgeable in their areas”
“Great program – loved Six Sigma!”
“CCI Update was best of the day – wish every
coder could have heard it”
We did experience a few “firsts” with this event. It was
the first time we brought our meeting to the Café Escadrille
in Burlington and, based on your comments, both the
location and facility were very well received. One comment
summed it up like this :
“The meeting location and facility were superb
– the rooms were spacious and comfortable, and
the food was delicious!”
We also launched for the first time our new online event
registration process through CVENT. Invitations and program
agendas were sent to our membership via email and members
had the ability to register online within minutes. Payment
could also be made via credit card or off-line via check.
CEU forms and meeting evaluations were also emailed to attendees
after the meeting. The result was a very streamlined registration
process with quick turnaround for payments, attendance counts,
and feedback. We had 184 attendees and more than 50% chose
to pay by credit card. We also experienced a 33% response
rate from our invitations which means that a third of the
membership responded in some way to our emails. We hope to
make this much higher as we go along! We also found out that
attendees' top three reasons for wanting to attend were, in
this order: education, networking, and FUN! That works for
us! Hope to see you all at our upcoming events later this
spring!
If you are not on our email list and wish to
receive invitations for future MaHIMA events, please contact
Karen O'Donnell in our Central Office at masshima@cs.com.
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MyPHR News
Submitted by Marianne Poirier, RHIA, CCS-P
AHIMA has launched a new and exciting MyPHR campaign!! They
have partnered with John Walsh (America's Most Wanted) to
be spokesman for the new media and print public service announcements,
and have started targeting metropolitan areas nation-wide.
Boston is scheduled to be one of them later in the Spring
or early Summer. Watch for our Association in the news!
Along with the new PSA campaign, AHIMA has completely
restructured the MyPHR website and presentation.
The website is more user friendly, and has newer, fresher
tools to start your own Personal Health Record. The
redesigned Web site provides Tools and resources, PHR forms
in English and Spanish, Step-by-step guide to creating a PHR,
Valuable information about privacy rights, Online newsroom,
Glossary of terms, Videos on PHRs, and Personal stories.
Take a minute and visit www.myPHR.com
The new Presentation is also fresh, easier
to understand and shorter! Please consider having a
presenter share this informative presentation for your group
gatherings. For more information or to schedule a presentation,
please contact Marianne Poirier, RHIA, CCS-P at the Central
Office address PO Box 681, Tyngsboro, MA 01879, Ph: 978-649-7517
Fax: 978-649-2730 or at masshima@cs.com
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Are you interested in presenting??
MaHIMA is holding a New Presenter/Refresher MyPHR Workshop
on April 18, 2008 from 10am to ~12noon at the new Brigham
Women's Health Information Services Dept conference room,
now located at 801 Mass Ave in Boston , very near Boston Medical
Center . It's a beautiful new space - complete
with windows! It's very easy to get to right off of
93 and a parking garage next to the building. Please
RSVP to Marianne Poirier at Poirier.marianne@dol.gov
or Georgette Wilson at GWILSON@partners.org
. This is a great cause to be a part of, please
join us!
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One of our
own goes National
Linda Hyde was selected as a candidate for one of the AHIMA
Director positions for this year. She will represent the state
of Massachusetts on the ballot. Please read Linda's excerpt
of her nomination.
“I am very excited and honored to be a candidate for
one of the AHIMA Director positions this year. AHIMA and our
state associations face challenges ahead of us as we continue
the transition to the electronic health record and respond
to the increased emphasis on public reporting of health care
data. I believe that my volunteer experience at both the state
and national level as well as my work experience provides
a unique perspective that will be valuable to the membership.”
Linda
Voting is electronic and takes seconds so PLEASE
VOTE and have one of our own on the national
board!!! AHIMA ballots will be released in June.
Congratulations Linda!
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MaHIMA Bylaws
Update
The MaHIMA bylaws have been updated on the website with the
latest version approved by our membership in January, 2007.
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IBM
and partners utilizing SOA strategy to help healthcare providers
improve efficiency and patient care
IBM press release | February 25, 2008
Media contact:
Contact: Chris Rubsamen
IBM Media Relations
(914) 766-1803
rubsamen@us.ibm.com
ARMONK, NY – February 25, 2008 –
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is collaborating
with nine business partners to help healthcare providers,
clinics and hospitals improve productivity, increase
quality and reduce costs through the use of service
oriented architecture (SOA) . These partners are
all working to develop their latest healthcare applications
using the
IBM SOA Foundation and supporting a set of open
technology and industry standards.
IBM's
healthcare strategy is based on the adoption of
an SOA approach and the use of open standards and standards-based
electronic health records to provide secure and private
exchanges of records between authorized healthcare provider
and healthcare payer organizations. To achieve these
goals, IBM is currently working with clients within
the healthcare industry to transform the information
delivery processes and related business processes to
be more “patient-centric.”
Clients who deploy infrastructures based on this strategy
can improve the quality of healthcare delivered to their
patents while reducing the costs and expenses of providing
these healthcare services. SOA can also allow these
healthcare providers to increase their agility to meet
future changes as the healthcare industry adopts new
regulations or embraces new methodologies in the delivery
of care.
The nine partners announced today provide applications
that support a growing healthcare community that currently
includes more than 8,000 clients worldwide. Their applications
encompass many of the specialty fields that impact the
healthcare industry including: electronic health records
( Blueware
); clinical portal ( Carefx
); document management ( CGI
Solutions and Technologies and Ricoh
); health analytics ( Convergence
CT ); consent management ( HIPAAT
); health enterprise management ( Lawson
); communications ( Nortel
); and clinical and financial information management
( Siemens
Medical Solutions ).
“Healthcare is going through a fundamental transformation
where innovation will be driven by a healthcare provider's
ability to achieve true interoperability,” said Janet
Dillione, CEO of the Health Services business unit of
Siemens Medical Solutions. “IBM has based its SOA healthcare
strategy on open standards, which is similar to our
strategy. At Siemens, SOA is a core enabler of workflow
technology that assists healthcare organizations in
realizing the agility, interoperability, and efficiencies
needed to drive healthcare quality up and costs down.
This strategy has served as a guiding principle in our
Soarian development efforts."
Since it is based on interoperability and supports
numerous open standards within the industry , IBM's
SOA healthcare strategy can help clients to significantly
reduce development time and lower costs. Depending on
need, various components of the IBM SOA Foundation can
be used to connect and integrate existing systems and
data repositories to unlock, access, and act on information
across the enterprise. The IBM SOA Foundation is an
integrated, open-standards-based set of software, best
practices and patterns for SOA.
IBM's broad partnerships enable leading software providers
to participate in the overall SOA strategy, giving healthcare
providers full flexibility in choosing the business
applications they need to address specific business
processes and challenges.
One example of this is DirectConnect, an internal initiative
to provide a streamlined workflow to clinicians within
Catholic
Healthcare West (CHW), the eighth largest hospital
system in the nation and the largest not-for-profit
hospital provider in California . Together, IBM teamed
with Carefx to deliver a portal-based, aggregate view
of real-time, patient-centric data that connects CHW
clinicians to the information necessary to deliver care.
“DirectConnect's ability to aggregate patient data
in one comprehensive and complete view improves the
delivery of patient care and the work lives of our physicians,”
said Terry Ambus, M.D., chief of staff, Mercy Gilbert
Medical Center and Chandler Regional Hospital . “With
instant access to essential information such as vital
signs, laboratory results, radiology exams and medication
lists, our healthcare professionals can make more informed
decisions and concentrate time on direct patient interaction.”
SOA can also help healthcare companies build, extend,
and transform their existing infrastructures incrementally
over time, by allowing multiple systems to consume and
re-use business services, and provide web-based collaboration
throughout the healthcare community.
“Integration is one of the biggest problems facing
healthcare today,” said Ivo Nelson, Vice President,
IBM Global Healthcare Provider. “IBM's SOA healthcare
strategy provides clients with a smart and flexible
infrastructure that takes advantage of existing and
new technologies to support changing business operations
and conditions.”
IBM's SOA strategy incorporates aspects of several
industry-leading product portfolios including WebSphere
, Lotus
, Tivoli
, Rational
and
Information Management and is a critical component
of IBM's Information on Demand initiative. These portfolios
have been further strengthened by a series of key acquisitions
such as Cognos, ISS and Watchfire.
SOA is among the fastest-growing segments of the information
technology industry and IBM offers the most comprehensive
portfolio of software, services and hardware for building,
maintaining and extending SOA environments. IBM has
the largest number of SOA clients, with more than 5,700
SOA engagements all over the world. IBM also has a community
of more than 4,200 SOA Business Partners worldwide.
For more information on IBM's SOA capabilities, visit
www.ibm.com/soa
Visit the IBM website for more information on IBM healthcare
solutions.
IBM will host IMPACT 2008, the industry's largest SOA
conference, April 6-11 in Las Vegas . For more information
go to: www.ibm.com/soa/impact2008
IBM, WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli , Rational, SmartSOA,
Cognos, DB2 and the IBM e-business logo are trademarks
or registered trademarks of International Business Machines
Corporation. For a list of additional IBM trademarks,
please see
www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml
All other company, product or service names may be
trademarks or registered trademarks of others. Statements
concerning IBM's future development plans and schedules
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Iron
Mountain
works with HP to help the healthcare industry store and protect
growing volumes of medical images
Media Contacts:
Dan O'Neill, Iron Mountain
(617) 535-2966
dan.oneill@ironmountain.com
Kristen Georgian, Weber Shandwick
(617) 520-7042
kristen.georgian@webershandwick.com
BOSTON (Feb. 25, 2008) – Iron Mountain Incorporated
(NYSE: IRM), a provider of information protection and storage
services, announced it is collaborating with HP to offer mid-sized
hospitals and imaging centers a new service for protecting
and storing their rising volume of diagnostic images.
Iron Mountain 's new Digital Record Center ™ for
Medical Images is a disaster recovery and long-term archiving
service that is powered by the HP Medical Archive solution
(MAS) and leverages Iron Mountain 's Storage-as-a-Service
expertise. The result is a solution for healthcare providers,
who must deliver on-demand access to diagnostic images, comply
with federal laws for handling patient data and reduce long-term
storage costs.
As a managed service, the Digital Record Center for Medical
Images provides secure, off-site, back-up protection without
requiring hospitals and imaging centers to set aside storage
systems, data center space, staff and capital investments.
This helps medical institutions to reduce their storage costs
and allows them to redirect resources to clinical operations.
“We are applying the same Storage-as-a-Service formula for
medical imaging that we've successfully applied to other industries,”
said Ken Rubin, senior vice president of strategic alliances
for Iron Mountain . “We can offer hospitals and imaging centers
better disaster recovery capability and lower their storage
costs versus in-house systems.”
Powering Iron Mountain 's latest storage service is HP MAS,
an industry-specific solution for long-term archival storage
of medical fixed content, consisting of factory-integrated
HP disk storage and servers, as well as indexing and policy
management software. HP recently made significant enhancements
to HP MAS (3.0) to help healthcare providers improve patient
care; facilitate regulatory compliance; increase storage flexibility;
lower storage costs; and improve operational efficiencies.
HP MAS is currently installed at more than 175 healthcare
institutions in 15 countries.
“Working with Iron Mountain , we are able to extend the HP
Medical Archive solution to an even greater number of healthcare
providers,” said Robin Purohit, vice president and general
manager, Information Management, Software, HP. “This is another
key step to strengthen our commitment in providing solutions
tailored for organizations of all sizes within the healthcare
industry.”
Iron Mountain and HP will jointly market and sell two service
offerings within the Digital Record Center for Medical Images.
The Disaster Recovery Service provides healthcare organizations
with a secure, off-site copy of imaging studies and allows
timely data recovery in the event of a disaster at the customer
site. The Disaster Recovery and Long-term Archiving Service
enables customers to eliminate on-site storage and associated
costs by providing two protected and replicated copies in
Iron Mountain's secure underground data bunkers in Western
Pennsylvania and Missouri. With both choices, customers pay
as they store, maximizing cost effectiveness by eliminating
inefficiencies associated with data center space and management
overhead.
“The Digital Record Center for Medical Images is a simple
solution that fulfills all of our medical imaging needs for
both archival storage and disaster recovery,” said Thuan Nguyen,
IT director, Seattle Radiologists. “Now we can access our
images as if they were on-site, but without the cost and responsibility
of maintaining a secure and scalable storage system.”
Diagnostic imaging is on the rise. One recent estimate from
National Imaging Associates predicts imaging procedures in
the United States will increase in 2008 to 600 million. This
growth, coupled with the expanding file size of images, challenges
hospitals and imaging centers to control storage costs and
comply with disaster recovery and data storage guidelines
like those required by the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA).
“The medical imaging marketplace is rapidly evolving,” said
Chris Connor, senior research analyst at Health Industry Insights,
an IDC company. “Historically, only medical institutions with
large capital budgets had the resources to maintain a scalable,
digital-image archive. But as the use of diagnostic imaging
expands and images exceed in-house storage capacities, institutions
of all sizes need the same capabilities to archive and safeguard
their images.”
The Digital Record Center for Medical Images complements
Iron Mountain 's current portfolio of health information solutions.
Healthcare providers trust Iron Mountain to solve their unique
and evolving challenges of simultaneously managing both physical
and digital records, while ensuring timely access to patient
records and complying with the ever-growing patient privacy
regulations. As healthcare providers transition to electronic
medical records, only Iron Mountain can securely manage their
analog films, protect and store their diagnostic images with
the Digital Record Center for Medical Images, and bridge the
physical and digital worlds with X-ray on Demand, a film conversion
service.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) helps organizations
around the world reduce the costs and risks associated with
information protection and storage. The Company offers comprehensive
records management and data protection solutions, along with
the expertise and experience to address complex information
challenges such as rising storage costs, litigation, regulatory
compliance and disaster recovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain
is a trusted partner to more than 100,000 corporate clients
throughout North America , Europe , Latin America and Asia
Pacific. For more information, visit the Company's Web site
at www.ironmountain.com
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Corporate
Partners
MaHIMA has been fortunate to have several corporate partners
join our force. The links and contact information is on our
website but in case you
have not perused this lately, here is the list of current
corporate partners.
| Achieve Results, NER |
| Acuity Business Integration
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| Alpha Systems |
| Ames Color-File |
| Barry Libman Inc. |
| Breitner Transcription Services
Inc. |
| Cardone Record Services,
Inc. |
| Consulate General of Canada
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| DataBank IMX |
| Donnegan Systems, Inc. |
| DRDocuments.com |
| FormFast, Inc. |
| Healthcare Global Inc. |
| Infotrak Record Management,
LLC |
| IOD Incorporated |
| Medical Coding Services,
Inc. |
| Meta Health Technology |
| M-Scribe Technologies, LLC
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| Navigant Consulting, Inc.
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| New England Medical Transcription,
Inc. |
| Northeast Transcription,
Inc. |
| Retrievex |
| Shred Pro |
If your organization utilizes any of the services of our
corporate partners, make sure you let them know your appreciation.
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MaHIMA
presents the Legislator of the Year Award to Senator Richard
T. Moore
Submitted by Susan Marre, RHIA
President-elect, MaHIMA
Senator Richard T. Moore will be presented with the MaHIMA
2008 Legislator of the Year award on April 15, 2008 at the
Dot Wagg Memorial Legislative Seminar.
The criteria for this award include:
- Consistent leadership on legislative initiatives that
advance and support MHIMA and the HIM profession
- Active involvement on committees that advance and support
the HIM profession
- Representation of Massachusetts at either the state or
federal level.
Senator Moore is currently serving his seventh term in the
Massachusetts Senate representing the southern Worcester County
area of Central Massachusetts . According to his website,
www.senatormoore.com,
he is Senate Chair of the influential Joint Committee on Health
Care Financing in the Massachusetts General Court. In that
capacity, and as Senate chair of the legislative Conference
Committee on health care reform legislation this year, Senator
Moore was among the principal authors who crafted the landmark
Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law.
Senator Moore has been a key supporter of HIM, as is evidenced
by his (repeated) sponsorship of bills to reduce the medical
record retention period. His current record retention bill
is S.1266, and it would reduce the current 30 years down to
15 years. During the last two legislative sessions the record
retention bill has been “passed” by the Senate and advanced
in the House to the Committee on Bills in Third reading.
During Beacon Hill Day in 2006, Senator Moore sent an e-mail
to all State House offices encouraging the legislators and
their staff members to meet us in the Nurses Hall, and to
support the MaHIMA members who visited their legislators'
offices that day.
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Celebrate
Health Information Privacy & Security Week April 13-19
This annual event is sponsored by AHIMA to raise awareness
among healthcare professionals and the public of the importance
of protecting the privacy and security of personal health
information. The theme this year is "Confidential
is Essential - Protect Health Information”.
MaHIMA will celebrate by hosting our annual Dot Wagg Memorial
Legislative Seminar: "ROI 101" on April 15,
2008 at the Dedham Holiday Inn. Come join us and take
in topics on Release of Information and Protecting Sensitive
Information like HIV, Genetic Testing and Mental Health
& Substance Abuse. MaHIMA will also be presenting our
Legislator of the Year Award to Senator Richard Moore.
Registration information is available at the following link:
http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Invitation.aspx?e=f4fc232d-c6ce-4328-8849-195b452ba088
AHIMA is providing planning kits to help you promote the week
in your workplace. To access the kit online, visit http://www.ahima.org/hipsweek
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Highlights
of the Six New England State HIMA Annual Conference - May
18-20, 2008
Registrations are now open! Please join us for three days
of continuing education, networking, and of course, FUN at
the Six New England State Health Information Management Associations
Annual Conference held at the Hilton Garden Inn and the DCU
Center in Worcester , MA . This is the 11th year the New England
Health Information Management Associations will come together
for continuing education and networking. The theme of this
year's 3 day event is "Changes - Health Information
Management enters a Brave New World" . This year's
conference offers 12+ hours of continuing education featuring
topics on Electronic Health Records, MS-DRG's, Recovery Audit
Contractors, E-HIM®, HL7 Messaging, Project Management,
Interventional Radiology Coding, Coding Certification Preparation,
and Data Security. Our professional trade exhibits span two
days and the social events include a Meet & Greet social
on day 1, Silent Auction and social in our exhibit hall, and
a dinner reception at the Worcester Art Museum , honoring
the New England HIMA Presidents. For registration information
and agenda, please visit our Calendar
page and click on registration link under the date of
the event. Special hotel room rates are available for attendees
but only for a limited time so don't delay!
Early registration, with discounted
registration fees, is April 18th
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Education Corner:
Caritas Laboure College
Director, Nancy A. Entwistle, MPA,
RHIT, CCS
Health Information Technology and Coding Division
Nancy_Entwistle@laboure.edu
617-296-8300 x4063
The winter term is ending and we are moving towards spring/summers
sessions. Our spring semester offers three courses, two of
which are new. Caritas Laboure' College is offering HIT140,
Billing and Healthcare Reimbursement for Healthcare Professionals,
HIT107, Pharmacology and Pathophysiology and HIT105, Introduction
to Tumor Registry. These courses are 2 credits each and are
offered in a hybrid format (meeting the first and last class
with the remaining classes on-line). These courses can be
taken independently if desired or could be taken for knowledge
purposes or as a requirement for your employment. Additional
information and application can be found at www.laboure.edu.
As the semesters are winding down and clinical experiences
are finishing, there have been many I would like to thank
in their continued support of our program and this profession.
Gerry Geary, Director, Health Information Technology from
Caritas Carney Hospital, Dorchester, MA, Susan Marre, Director,
Health Information Technology at New England Sinai Rehabilitation,
Stoughton, MA and Michele Skinner, Director, Caritas Good
Samaritan Hospital, Brockton, MA have all lent assistance
to our program, accepting students and opening clinical spaces
for HIT students and continue to support our program. I would
like to take this opportunity to thank each of you personally
and look forward our continued relationship in the future.
I would personally like to congratulate Mary Connolly, Mariann
Jordan and Philip Tentiendo on their upcoming graduation from
the HIT program as well as Jane Foley and Lisa Cronin-Smith
from the Coding Certificate program. I am very proud of each
of you.
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Education Corner:
Fisher College
Director, Patricia
Parkes, RHIA
Health Information Technology and Medical Coding Program
pparkes@fisher.edu
508-699-6200
Professional Practice Experiences – Benefits for All
Involved
MaHIMA has long been recognized as a strong supporter of
HIM education. The creation of the RHIA Task Force to find
a host school for a new baccalaureate HIA program, the annual
Outstanding Student Awards, the creation of a certification
scholarship, and the willingness of its members to accept
students for their internships are only a few of the many
ways that MaHIMA members have shown their support of the future
HIM professionals in our region. In this article I would like
to focus on the positive aspects of being a site supervisor.
MENTORSHIP
Sharing our skills and knowledge is how we can continue to
ensure the future of our profession. Most of the Fisher College
HIT students are adults who work full-time jobs. In many cases,
they exhaust a year's worth of vacation time to complete just
one of their required two 120-hour internships. They want
to learn and are appreciative of the time and knowledge that
current HIM professionals are willing to share with them.
Mentoring HIT students, who are sometimes very nervous about
beginning their first professional practice experience, is
a personally rewarding experience. Some of the questions that
we have been asked by students who are about to embark on
this momentous occasion in their education include: Do I really
know enough to work in an HIM Department for 3 weeks? Will
they expect me to know EVERYTHING? What if I forget something
that I have learned in my classes? Clare Carvel, M.Ed., RHIA,
HIT Professional Practice Coordinator, responds to questions
such as these by assuring students they are going to the site
to learn, apply what they already know to real life work situations,
and put their best foot forward. You have the chance to make
a lasting impression on a student that you have mentored and
trained. This mentorship also earns you one CEU credit for
each student that you supervise.
VALUE
Accepting a student for an internship does require some time
to develop a schedule for the student, meet with him/her regularly
to be sure questions are answered, and having employees that
are willing to share their knowledge with students. The right
placement can result in added value for your department. For
example, the intern could maintain progress on some work left
by a vacationing employee, help to test a new procedure or
software, and numerous other projects requiring attention
in your resource-strapped department. Does this sound beneficial
to you and your department? Is this a value proposition you
could sell to your administration?
STUDENT EVALUATION
It is not often that we get the opportunity to see a potential
employee's personal and professional capabilities and skills
before hiring them. HIT Internships present an excellent opportunity
for site supervisors to witness soon-to-be-graduates in action.
Many of Fisher College 's graduates are hired to work at the
facility where they completed their internship. Marie Udas,
RHIT, Director of HIM at Caritas Norwood Hospital , has hosted
many Fisher College students for their professional practice
experiences, and has also hired several of these students
once they graduated. Marie states, “Being a site supervisor
for the HIT students allows me to provide hands on experience
in a fast paced HIM department. It affords the student the
opportunity to come to a decision on their area of interest.
Whether the student leans towards ROI, Coding or Management,
the HIT student of today is our HIT professional of tomorrow”.
To those of you who have experienced the benefits of providing
an HIT internship opportunity – I thank you. For those of
you waiting for the right opportunity – please contact me.
We need you, we depend upon you, and we thank you!
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Education Corner:
Bristol Community College
Director, Edward Dobbs, RHIA
Health Information Technology Division
edobbs@bristol.mass.edu
Exciting news will follow in a future issue.
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E-Channel Editorial Board
Editor
Nancy Entwistle, MPA, RHIT, CCS
617-296-8300 x4063
Nancy_Entwistle@laboure.edu
Editorial Board
Holly Ballam, RHIA
617-667-8149
hballam@bidmc.harvard.edu
Bettyann Carroll , MS , RHIA
508-679-7050
carrollb@southcoast.org
Tracy Harris, RHIT, CCS
617-754-5014
monkey64@comcast.net
Susan Marre, RHIA
781-297-1185
smarre@nesinai.org
Linda Peterson, RHIA
617-679-1226
lpeterson@rmf.harvard.edu
Joseph Reitano
508-650-7956
jreitano@5sqc.com
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