Essentials of Health Information Management: Principles and Practices

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Exercises and case studies featured throughout the text give students valuable real-world context related to the health care industry and health information management careers, as well as assessing their knowledge and critical-thinking abilities.

Learning Features: Exercises and case studies throughout the readings give students context for the health care industry and HIM careers, while testing their knowledge and critical thinking abilities.

New and updated information covers topics important for today's allied health professions, including cultural competence, information systems and data security, federal laws pertaining to the workplace, ethical standards of practice and more.

The author has revised chapter 1 to relocate information about prehistoric, ancient, medieval and Renaissance medicine, which can now be found in Appendix A. The chapter also includes new content about telehealth and telemedicine.

Chapter 2 includes new content about the development of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and its predecessor organizations. Expanded material on ethical standards of practice looks specifically at the AHIMA Code of Ethics. Finally, the chapter also features new coverage of cultural diversity, cultural competence, health care disparities, health equity and Healthy People 2030.

New and expanded content in chapter 3 covers critical access hospitals, general hospitals in rural settings, a comparison between rehabilitation and general hospitals, the benefits of ambulatory care versus inpatient care, cancer treatments in infusion centers and skilled care examples. In addition, a new section, Health Information Management in Various Settings, provides information on the varied care settings where today's allied health professionals may practice.

Revisions to chapter 4 include new information on electronic addenda, the differences between manual and electronic signatures and record retention laws for federal prisons. Expanded content in the Role of Health Information Department section provides additional detail on electronic record documentation.

Chapter 5 contains a new Use of Information Technologies section, which includes a definition of interoperability and content on the use of information technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. New sections have also been added for Information Systems and Database Management Systems, which include information on database design, data mining, data dictionaries, clinical data repositories, data warehouses, data marts, data definition languages, structured query languages (SQL) and relational databases.

In chapter 6, the author discusses the professional disclosure standard and the reasonable patient standard in protecting health information. Additional content explores the ways new forms and new data items are developed and the functional characteristics of documentation formats.

Additional content updates include new information on the the HIPAA security rule and disaster plans in chapter 7, and an expanded chapter 9 with new material on the roles and responsibilities of security officers, at-will employment, independent contractors, reasonable accommodations, unions and federal employment laws.