Strategies for Electronic Document and Health Record Management

Strategies for Electronic Document and Health Record Management provides a professional practice guide to efficient and effective health record management in the digital age. An effective document and health record management program depends on robust forms inventory, legal health record inventory and definition, a functioning retention and destruction process, realistic productivity standards, and other factors that are described within the text.

This innovative resource will appeal equally to a wide variety of readers including HIM professionals, software vendors, academicians, students, and IT, revenue cycle, and financial managers.

Key Features

Provides a professional practice guide to efficient and effective health record management and information governance in the digital age
Clearly delineates the benefits of the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) and the important role it has as a vital component of the electronic health record (EHR) for those organizations still in the process of transitioning from paper and hybrid environments to the EHR or having difficulty with document or data integrity
Presents practical strategies for success for healthcare providers, health information managers, and CIOs as compliance, accreditation, risk mitigation, reimbursement, and positive patient outcomes depend on accurate and timely access and management of the legal health record
Provides an innovative way to improve and maintain effective document and heath record management through the use of an EDMS
About the Author

Darice Grzybowski, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA is President of H.I.Mentors, LLC—a best practice HIM consulting, revenue cycle, software development, and strategic marketing firm founded in 2005. Ms. Grzybowski has over 30 years of healthcare experience as a hospital administrator, consultant, software marketing executive, educator. She is a nationally recognized speaker, author, past president of the Illinois Health Information Management Association, and winner of the AHIMA Triumph Award in Advancement in Computerization of Health Records, Advance Magazines Top 10 HIM Professionals in 2010, and recipient of the ILHIMA and CAHIMA Distinguished Member award.