Hear from David Pogue, a former columnist for the New York Times and Scientific American, and a five-time Emmy winner for his stories on CBS Sunday Morning. On this episode, David provides invaluable insights on how technology impacts our work, businesses, health, society, and connections with each other—now and into the future.

As health information professionals begin to look ahead to ICD-11, Kathy Giannangelo, MA, RHIA, CCS, CPHIMS, FAHIMA, president at Kathy Giannangelo Consulting, LLC, breaks down its features and architecture on this episode of HI Pitch. Kathy has a comprehensive clinical terminology, classification, and data standards background with more than 40 years of experience in the health information management and informatics field. She also talks about the free on-demand ICD-11 webinars she is hosting.

AHIMA21 main stage keynote speaker Daniel Kraft, MD, joins the Hi-Pitch Podcast to preview his conference address, as well as exciting technology trends, artificial intelligence, and how information technology has helped and hindered the COVID-19 pandemic response.

What did you think of the podcast? Contact AHIMA's Matt Schlossberg [email protected]. 

 

On this episode of the HI Pitch Podcast, hear from Daniel Kraft, MD, who will be the mainstage speaker at AHIMA21. Listen as Dr. Kraft provides a preview of his AHIMA21 keynote session, as well as discusses exciting technology trends, artificial intelligence, and how information technology has helped and hindered the COVID-19 pandemic response.

What did you think of the podcast? Contact AHIMA's Matt Schlossberg [email protected].

Hear from Matt Schlossberg, Director of Communications and Marketing for the AHIMA Foundation, who provides listeners with background for the Foundation, as well as parameters for the upcoming essay contest that supports the focus on Health Literacy for Health Equity as we lead up to AHIMA21.

Self-doubt, unchecked emotions, snap judgments, or conflict are all reasons people sabotage their own potential for success. Many studies contend that it is not skill or knowledge that separates effective from nominal performance. Rather, such behaviors demonstrate a failure in one or more dimensions of emotional intelligence.

Fortunately, emotional intelligence is something that can be cultivated and improved though mindfulness, self-awareness, and relationship management.

How this cultivation can be accomplished is why we have invited Merida L. Johns to the Hi-Pitch Podcast. Dr. Johns is the founder and director of The Monarch Center for Women’s Leadership Development, which helps professionals acquire the confidence, leadership behaviors, and skills for influencing and inspiring others. Dr. Johns is also the author of a recent article in the Journal of AHIMA on the subject of emotional intelligence. Listeners of the podcast can find links to the article and the Monarch Center in the show notes.

Clinical documentation integrity and technology continue to evolve across the continuum of care, including both the inpatient and outpatient settings. The expansion of CDI and advancing technology has resulted in the need for prospective CDI health record reviews.

A new Practice Brief from AHIMA—Prospective Clinical Documentation Integrity Reviews and Query/Alert Practice Best Standards—provides best practices relating to prospective reviews and to recognize the difference between documentation alerts designed to influence a provider’s documentation versus a clinical alert for clinical decision making at the time of charting.

On this episode of the HI Pitch podcast, Tammy Combs, an AHIMA Practice Director and co-author of AHIMA’s new CDI Practice Brief, dives into best practices relating to prospective reviews and addresses how the brief helps users recognize the difference between documentation alerts designed to influence a provider’s documentation versus a clinical alert for clinical decision making at the time of charting.

On this episode of the HI Pitch podcast, guest host Matt Schlossberg speaks with Sandy Lewallen to discuss AHIMA’s newest white paper that outlines the data governance strategies underlying successful social determinants of health programs, as well as the key role Sandy plays in the development of data governance strategies for ProMedica’s social determinants initiatives.

Lynette Williamson, Ed.D., RHIA, CCS, CPC, FAHIMA, was introduced as the recipient of the 2021 Making Dreams Come True Distinguished Educator Award during the 2021 Assembly on Education Symposium. In this episode, Dr. Williamson, an assistant professor and health information management program director for the University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu, discusses how the pandemic impacted her teaching style and philosophy and the role her department played in the COVID-19 response.

Hear Thor Ringler, Writer-Editor at William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Eric Yanke, MD and Chief Informatics Officer at William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, and Mara Feingold-Link, MD at Brigham and Women’s hospital, who discuss the My Life, My Story project and the challenges that accompany broader EHR deployment.

Hear from Shujah Das Gupta, Associate Vice President with Citius Tech, who goes into depth about the new Information Blocking rule. He also covers the implications of being in compliance with regulations and the overall impact information blocking has on broad scale healthcare workflows and operations.