This weekend is the start of the AHIMA Annual Convention happening in Miami, Florida. For those not familiar with the AHIMA organization, it brings together...
Health Information Governance
I scarcely need to remind readers of the immensity of the threats to healthcare data security out there. Not only is healthcare data an attractive target for...
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A Fort Myers, FL-based cancer care organization is paying a massive price for a health data breach that exposed personal information on 2.2 million patients...
HIM professionals are responsible for many different tasks throughout the day and the highest priority is typically on ensuring the accuracy and integrity of...
I recently spent some time explaining Information Governance (IG) and its importance to one of our executive leaders. She asked me to explain IG in 3 sentences...
Contrary to common belief, technology does not own health data. Data exists as a result of the input of multiple sources of information throughout each...
As more and more health data is being captured be health organizations, health information governance is becoming an extremely important topic. In order to...
Hospitals are becoming large data centers of health information. In some ways, they’ve always been the storage facility of health information, but how we...
This post is part of Iron Mountain’s Healthcare Information Governance: Big Picture Predictions and Perspectives Series which looks at the key trends...