Since the July issue of HIMAA Matters, six new papers were published in HIMJ …
Research article Perceptions of Portuguese medical coders on the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS: A national survey
Philipa Santos Martins, Fernando Lopes, Julio Souza, Alberto Freitas, Joao Vasco Santos
July 18, 2023 | OnlineFirst
In this observational web-based survey study, the authors investigated the impact of changing from ICD-9-CM to IDC-10-CM/PCS, to assess the perceptions of medical coders on the transition in terms of its impact on data quality, and the major differences, advantages and problems they faced.
Research article Are clinical registries an effective tool for hospital health services to address unwarranted clinical variation?
Tessa Bessen, Gerry O’Callghan.
July 21, 2023 | OnlineFirst
The objective of this online survey of all Heads of Units within the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) was to map clinical registries within the CALHN and to identify how these registries were currently used for addressing unwarranted clinical variation in care.
Research article Digital health care and data work: Who are the data professionals?
Claus Bossen, Pernille Scholdan Bertelsen.
July 25, 2023 | OnlineFirst
Given the interest in data science and data work more broadly, and the ongoing trend toward digitisation of the healthcare domain and efforts for it to become data driven, the authors used a mixed method approach to investigate data professionals in healthcare in a large national healthcare data organisation in Denmark.
Research article Defining career success: A cross-sectional analysis of health information managers’ perceptions
Abbey Nexhip, Merilyn Riley, Kerin Robinson.
July 25, 2023 | OnlineFirst
The aim of this research was to determine the indicators of career success as reported my health information managers and identify whether there are any differences based on length of time in the profession. Using a cross-sectional study design, an online survey was administered to a sample of La Trobe University and Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences Medical Record Administration and Health Information Management graduates from 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015 to ask: “How would you define success in your career?”
Research article Comparison of the accuracy of inpatient morbidity coding with ICD-11 and ICD-10
Javed Zarei, Reza Golpira, Nasim Hashemi, Zahra Azadmanjir, Zahra Meidani, Akram Vahedi. Hooman Bakhshandeh, Esmaeil Fakharian, Abbas Sheikhtaheri.
July 25, 2023 | OnlineFirst
Given the challenges of transitioning between revisions of ICD, the focus of this investigation was to determine the accuracy of clinical coding with ICD-11 compares with ICD-10 and identify causes of coding errors in real clinical coding environments.
Research article Adoption of electronic patient medication records in community pharmacies in the United Arab Emirates: A cross-sectional survey
Ahman Z Al Meslamani, Anan S Jarab, Derar H Abdel-Qdader, Osama Mohamed Ibrahim, Nadia Al Mazrouei.
August 8, 2023 | OnlineFirst
In this article, the researchers surveyed community pharmacists to investigate the potential benefits, barriers and concerns associated with the implementation of an electronic patient medical record system in communities in the UAE.