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New PHIMA Executive Director
ONC Releases "Meaningful Use" Criteria for Public Comment
Amendments to Charges for Medical Records
PHIMA Legal Reference Manual
of Health Information Management
Meet Alan F.
Dowling, PhD
Health
Information Bill of Rights
PHIMA RHIA/RHIT Exam Reimbursement Recipients
Mervat Abdelhak Receives AHIMA Distinguished Member
Award
CSA
Core Service Achievement Recipients
Legislator Letter About HIM Education
ICD-10 Update
Geographic Pennsylvania Community of Practice
 The Keystoner - The Official
Publication of PHIMA
The Board of PHIMA
is engaged to keep our membership fully abreast of
issues impacting our profession, on a state and national
level. The Keystoner is a quarterly publication of
PHIMA that covers items of interest within the
association, updates on committees and members, and the
status of the local associations within PHIMA.
The
Keystoner is distributed via email or can be downloaded.
New PHIMA Executive Director
It is my pleasure to announce that Linda McLinden, RHIA, has
accepted the position as our new Executive Director.
Learn more
ONC Releases "Meaningful Use" Criteria for Public Comment
On December 30,
2009, CMS and ONC issued proposed regulations on the definition of Meaningful
Use and the initial set of standards, implementation specifications, and
certification criteria for EHR technology. "We believe the EHR incentive
program...will accelerate and facilitate health IT adoption by more individual
providers and organizations throughout the health care system,” said Dr. David
Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health IT.
For more information, please
visit ONC's Interim Final Rule.
PAeHI will be reviewing this information during the 60-day
public comment period, and welcomes your input. More information to follow.
Mark Stevens
Executive Director PAeHI
717.561.5338
mstevens@paehi.org
Amendments to Charges for Medical Records
(Effective January 1, 2010)
 The Department of Health announces the Amendments to
Charges for Medical Records effective January 1, 2010.
Click here to learn more or visit the
Pennsylvania CoP.
As a reminder, the
PHIMA Reference Legal Manual
is available for purchase.
Meet Alan F.
Dowling, PhD
 Click
here to watch an exclusive interview with the
AHIMA CEO.
Health
Information Bill of Rights
AHIMA announced the Health Information Bill of Rights, a
model for protecting the personal health information of
the nation’s more than 300 million healthcare consumers.
The bill of rights was created by a blue-ribbon panel of
HIM professionals. The full text of the bill is
available
online here.
PHIMA RHIA/RHIT Exam Reimbursement Recipients
Congratulations and Welcome the
following HIM professionals have recently graduated, successfully passed their
RHIA or RHIT certification exam, and were reimbursed their exam expense.
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Brenda
Gray-West, RHIT
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Donna Lougher, RHIT
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Dawn Micklich, RHIT
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Martin Schryver, RHIA
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Joshua
Share, RHIA
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Kathy Summers, RHIT
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Carol Wise, RHIT
If you, or know of someone,
that qualifies for exam reimbursement, please visit the PHIMA webpage for more
details www.phima.org/careercenter_examreimbursement.html
Mervat Abdelhak Receives AHIMA Distinguished Member
Award
Dr. Mervat Abdelhak, Chair of the Health Information Management Department
(HIM), at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Health and Rehabilitation
Sciences received the American Health Information Management Association’s
(AHIMA) Distinguished Member Award. The Distinguished Member Award is AHIMA’s
highest honor for an individual with a long and exceptional history of HIM
contributions. An educator, leader, mentor, and AHIMA volunteer, Dr. Mervat
Abdelhak’s career spans more than 30 years in the HIM field. She served as
AHIMA president in 2005 and continues to serve in leadership roles in AHIMA.
Dr. Abdelhak has contributed significantly to the profession as an
author and researcher and has advanced the knowledge and practice of HIM.
Dr. Abdelhak is a supremely respected educator, eminent leader and
mentor, and therefore, very deserving of the 2009 AHIMA Distinguished Member
Award.
CSA Core Service Achievement Recipients
Take a look at the award certificates
NEW!
Read the article
The component state association
(CSA) Core Service Achievement recipients were announced
at Leadership Conference on July 18. This is the
program’s fifth year which highlights those CSAs
creatively excelling in the core services. The eight
categories were reviewed by a panel of AHIMA members.
The recipients are:
Continuing Education Programs Relating to Coding
(including Coding Roundtable Activity)
First
place: South Carolina
Second place: Pennsylvania
Third place: Mississippi
Continuing Education
Programs Related to HIM Practice Topics
First
place (tie): Florida and Pennsylvania
Second place: Virginia
Third place: South Carolina
Diversity Programs
First
place: South Carolina
Second place: Mississippi
Third place: Colorado
Legislative and Regulatory
Advocacy
First
place: Minnesota
Second place: South Carolina
Third place: Virginia
Member Communications
First
place: North Carolina
Second place: Missouri
Third place: South Carolina
Recruitment and Retention
Activities for Members
First
place: South Dakota
Second place: Tennessee
Third place: Michigan
Recruitment and Retention
Activities for Students
First
place: Illinois
Second place: Hawaii
Third place (tie): Colorado and South Carolina
Support for Local
Accredited HIM Education Programs
First
place: California
Second place: Pennsylvania
Third place (tie): Michigan and South Carolina
Legislator Letter About HIM Education
State legislators around the country are being urged to initiate HIM programs at
the baccalaureate level. An open letter to state legislators is being
distributed tomorrow at the National Congress of State Legislators. It will
also be distributed to the media. You may be queried by reporters, members,
and/or the healthcare industry. Please find the letter posted to the
State
Leader and HOD CoP.
ICD-10 Update
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services has released a final rule for replacing the
30-year-old ICD-9-CM code set with ICD-10-CM and
ICD-10-PCS. The final rule outlines the effective date
as 60 days after publication in the Federal
Register, and the compliance date for the two
classification sets is established as October 1, 2013.
Learn more on the AHIMA website
Pennsylvania Community of Practice
Another great way
to share information with others, ask a question,
network with over 400 Pennsylvania-based colleagues and
provide feedback on state-wide or national issues is to
join the
Pennsylvania Community of Practice (CoP)
sponsored by AHIMA. The Geographic Pennsylvania CoP is
an online member interaction tool designed with
Pennsylvania’s AHIMA members needs in mind.
The CoP contains
up-to-date news, links to helpful resources, and, most
importantly, solutions and ideas from peers. It's much
more than discussion boards, because there are many
tools integrated into this site to help members connect
with members. And because it is supported by PHIMA, you
can trust the information to be timely, accurate and
relevant to health information professionals practicing
within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
You must be a member of AHIMA to
access the CoP. For instructions and more information
about the CoP,
download this helpful how-to brochure to get
started.
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