Recently added articles from Health Information Management Journal:

Barbara Armstrong: National Administrator, Australian Homoeopathic Association.(Professional profiles)(Essay)

Jun 01, 2008; Armstrong, Barbara ... Recording ancient history Introduction When I was invited to write a piece outlining my career for this journal, I was sent a number of previous articles as examples. Reading these, I realised just how far the profession has come since the time when I first studied ...

Professional practice and innovation: identifying and flagging children and young people under state guardianship on the Patient Administration System (PAS).

Jun 01, 2008; Drake, Tanya ... Abstract In December 2006 a data matching trial was undertaken in partnership between Women's and Children's Hospital (WCH) and families South Australia (SA), the state child welfare agency, to identify children and young people under guardianship of the minister for families ...

When did we start doing that? Documenting the evolution of health information in Australia.(Editorial)

Jun 01, 2008; Kearsey, Irene ... Health information management is not a career for anyone looking for the slow lane: each day is full of pressures and deadlines, forever managing changes to work content, to work methods, in the technology used, and in the demands of hospital management, accreditors, funders, and state and ...

An evaluation of the quality of obstetric morbidity coding using an objective assessment tool, the Performance Indicators for Coding Quality (PICQ).

Jun 01, 2008; Lam, Mary K. ... Abstract The Performance Indicators for Coding Quality (PICQ) is a data quality assessment tool developed by Australia's National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH). PICQ consists of a number of indicators covering all ICD-10-am disease chapters, some procedure chapters ...

The Centre for Health Record Linkage: a new resource for health services research and evaluation.(Reports)

Jun 01, 2008; Lawrence, Glenda ... Introduction The Centre for Health Record Linkage (CHeReL) was established in 2006 to support health and health services research in New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It is the second dedicated health record linkage unit to be established in ...

Fifty years as a health information management professional: an American perspective.(Invited commentaries)

Jun 01, 2008; Lewis, Carol A ... Some years ago while we were serving as temporary advisors at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Dr A. S. Haro, Chief of the Planning Department of the National Health Board in Helsinki, Finland told me about an article he had written to celebrate an anniversary of his graduation ...

Litigation and doctor-patient confidentiality.(Reports)(Case overview)

Jun 01, 2008; Mair, Judith ... Abstract When a patient sues a healthcare practitioner with regard to their care, the healthcare records are an important part of the evidence used in the case. litigation is usually heard in open court in the presence of the public and information contained within the records ...

The hospital mortality project: a tool for using administrative data for continuous clinical quality assurance.

Jun 01, 2008; Mukhtar, S. Aqif ... Abstract The increasing demand for greater clinical accountability requires development of convenient tools to measure healthcare safety and quality, which are able to provide information contemporaneously. the purpose of this paper is to describe the development of the Hospital ...

Health information management in Australia: a brief history of the profession and the Association.(Invited commentaries)

Jun 01, 2008; Watson, Phyllis J. ... History can be understood as an aggregation of past events. In researching the history of the medical record profession in Australia it is, therefore, fascinating to see how the development of the profession and Association has been marked by a series of milestones that have collectively ...