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E-HIM ™ : It Will Transform Your Job! By Beth Hjort, RHIA, CHP

E-HIM ™ : It Will Transform Your Job! By Beth Hjort, RHIA, CHP. National Health Information and Technology Week November 7–13, 2004. Technology Is Transforming the Healthcare Industry. Healthcare Lagging Behind. Other industries Other countries. Progress in Pockets.

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E-HIM ™ : It Will Transform Your Job! By Beth Hjort, RHIA, CHP

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  1. E-HIM™: It Will Transform Your Job!By Beth Hjort, RHIA, CHP National Health Information and Technology Week November 7–13, 2004

  2. Technology Is Transforming the Healthcare Industry

  3. Healthcare Lagging Behind Other industries Other countries

  4. Progress in Pockets

  5. Paper  Hybrid  Electronic

  6. Technology is transforming the use of healthcare information at ___(insert name of your healthcare organization)___. 1. System example 2. Integration example 3. Remote application example

  7. The Good News Technology is transforming the healthcare industry

  8. The Bad News The Healthcare Industry Is in Crisis!

  9. Healthcare Dilemmas • Finance problems • Efficiency • Patient safety • Public health • Healthy lifestyles

  10. Technology has the capacity to fix many healthcare industry problems when the health information it contains is accurate, timely, and protected.

  11. What Are We Waiting For? Sizeable investment Weak economic reasons to invest Need networked system Change is difficult

  12. How Do We Fix This Problem?

  13. President Bush “By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs, and improve care.” January 20, 2004 “[We] can control healthcare costs and improve care by moving American medicine into the information age.” January 24, 2004

  14. “This would encourage the replacement of handwritten charts and scattered medical files…[W]e would improve care, and help prevent dangerous medical errors, saving both lives and money.” President Bush January 24, 2004

  15. Is a Federal Law on Its Way? DHHS National Health Information Coordinator-appointed Legislation being drafted

  16. Quality Clinical Records = Quality Care

  17. Clinical Information Resources Must Be: • Planned • Organized • Managed

  18. HIM Focus Is On • Content • Integrity • Accessibility • Use • Protection

  19. Data  Information  Knowledge  Knowledge

  20. In the future, the industry will face larger and more disparate volumes of data HIM professionals must be able to: • Collect • Link • Maintain

  21. A modern information infrastructure is needed to meet the challenges.

  22. This Is National Health Information and Technology Week

  23. HIM Vision HIM is the body of knowledge and practice that ensures the availability of health information to facilitate real-time healthcare delivery and critical health-related decision making for multiple purposes across diverse organizations, settings, and disciplines.

  24. E-HIM™ looks ahead and embraces the real benefits that will accrue when healthcare comes fully into the information age.E-HIM™ is the term created by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) to represent the evolving reality of health information.

  25. Vision of Health Information in 2010 The future state of health information: • Electronic • Patient centered • Comprehensive • Longitudinal • Accessible • Credible

  26. Health information collection will span an individual’s life and allow for comprehensive views of illness, health promotion, wellness and disease, and injury prevention activities

  27. It Takes a Community!Health Information and Technology Week2004

  28. Questions?

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