Latest from HIMJ

  • Andrea Gall
  • February 17, 2022

Latest from HIMJ

A lot has happened at HIMJ since the last issue of HIMAA Matters in 2021. Below is a ‘catch-up list’ of:

 

  • the January Issue of HIMJ for 2022
  • Virtual Special Issue on Health Data and Diversity, and
  • Recently published On-Line First articles.

 

HIMJ Volume 51, No, 1 (January 2022) includes:

 

Review Article  Personal electronic healthcare records: What influences consumers to engage with their clinical data online? A literature review

Kellie-Anne Crameri, Lynne Maher, Pieter Van Dam, and Sarah Prior

 

Research Articles  The likelihood of requiring a diagnostic test: Classifying emergency department patients with logistic regression

Görkem Sarıyer and Mustafa Gökalp Ataman

 

Utility of SNOMED CT in automated expansion of clinical terms in discharge summaries: Testing issues of coverage

Aleksandar Zivaljevic, Koray Atalag and James Warren

 

Under-coding of dementia and other conditions indicates scope for improved patient management: A longitudinal retrospective study of dementia patients in Australia

Witold H Polanski, Adrian Danker, Amir Zolal, Davis Senf-Mothes, Gabriele Schackert, and Dietmar Krex

 

Professional Practice & Innovation Article  A multi-method quality improvement approach to systematically improve and promote the quality of national health and social care information

Niamh McGrath, Barbara Foley, Caroline Hurley, Maria Ryan, and Rachel Flynn

 

NEW Virtual Special Issue – Health Data and Diversity

 

Guest Editors Bronwyn Hemsley (PhD) and Deborah Debono (PhD) introduce this Virtual Special Issue for HIMJ with a compilation of articles grouped along the themes of:

 

  • Considering health literacy in e-health initiatives
  • Building on the affordances of online social networks
  • Recognising complexity and clinical coding holistically in healthcare documentation
  • Documenting accurately across disciplines for patient safety, and
  • Improving information exchange for transitional care across settings.

 

Their Editorial, ‘Recognising complexity: Foregrounding vulnerable and diverse populations for inclusive health information management research’ and the collection of papers selected for this VSI are available at https://journals.sagepub.com/page/him/collections/health-data-and-diversity

 

HIMJ has recently published one On-line First article. A brief summary is provided below…

 

Editorial  Recognising complexity: Foregrounding vulnerable and diverse populations for inclusive health information management research

Bronwyn Hemsley, Deborah Debono.

Nov 25, 2021 | OnlineFirst

 

This collection of articles, content of a Virtual Special Issue on Health Data and Diversity, highlight the multi-dimensional nature of health information management research, and the foregrounding of populations with disabilities and/or multiple heath conditions.

 

Professional Practice & Innovation article  Innovations in clinical documentation integrity practice: Continual adaptation in a data-intensive healthcare organisation

Kathleen H Pine, Lee Anne Landon, Claus Bossen, ME VanGelder.

Dec 22, 2021 | OnlineFirst

 

This case study explores a clinical documentation integrity program at the HonorHealth hospital system in Arizona.

 

Research article  Completeness and accuracy of adverse drug reaction documentation in electronic medical records at a tertiary care hospital in Australia

Gina McLachlan, Airley Broomfield, Rohan Elliott.

Dec 21, 2021 | OnlineFirst

 

This study investigated the completeness of adverse drug reaction (ADR) documentation, and the accuracy of the classification of ADRs as allergy versus intolerance, in the EMR at a major metropolitan hospital in Australia.

 

Research article  Identification of root causes of clinical coding problems in Iranian hospitals

Mohamad Jebraeily, Jebraeil Farzi, Shahla Fozoonkhah, Abbas Sheikhtaheri.

Dec 16, 2021 | OnlineFirst

 

This qualitative study sought to identify and evaluate the root causes of clinical coding problems in Iranian hospitals, to inform appropriate solutions.

 

Research article  Is training doctors in medical certification effective? Evidence from a prospective study in the Philippines

Jomilynn Rebanal, Tim Adair, Lene Mikkelsen.

Dec 12, 2021 | OnlineFirst

 

In this study, the researchers undertook to assess the measurable long-term impacts of a large-scale training intervention for improving medication certification and reducing certification errors, by assessing the quality of 2,100 Medical Certification or Causes of Death (MCCOD) certificates before and after the intervention.

 

Research article  Family violence homicide rates: a state-wide comparison of three data sources in Victoria, Australia

Reena Sarkar, Joanna F Dipnall, Richard Bassed, Joan Ozanne-Smith AO.

Dec 7, 2021 | OnlineFirst

 

This study examined data reliability for Family Violence Homicide rates in Victoria, by comparing rates between the National Coronial Information System (NCIS), Coroners Court of Victoria (CCoV) Homicide Register, and the National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP).

 

Research article  Training and experience of coding with the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision

Cathy Eastwood, Danielle A Southern, Chelsea Doktorchik.

Sep 23, 2021 | OnlineFirst

 

This study outlines the development of ICD-11 training materials, training processes and experiences of clinical coders while leaning to code using ICD-11.

 

Research article  Awareness of, attitudes towards, and practices of health information management professionals in South Korea relating to privacy of personal health information

Yeaeun Kim.

Sep 3, 2021 | OnlineFirst

 

This study examined health information management professionals’ awareness, attitude and practice relating to personal health information in South Korea, by surveying >300 members of the Korean Health Information Management Association.

 

Letter to the Editor  Read science news critically and look for original studies: An example of misleading headlines related to COVID-19 vaccines in mainstream media

Petar Milovanovic

Dec 9, 2021 | OnlineFirst

 

Letter to the Editor  Discharge status of the patient: evaluating hospital data quality with a focus on long-term and palliative care patient data

 

João Vasco Santos, Filipa Santos Martins, Fernando Lopes, Júlio Souza, Alberto Freitas

Nov 30, 2021 | OnlineFirst

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