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The Mississippi Health Information Management Association (MSHIMA) Nominating Committee wants you to suggest fellow members and/or yourself as possible candidates for the MSHIMA Board positions for the next fiscal year, July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020.
The following board positions are available:
The deadline for submission is March 1, 2019.
Click here to complete the online call for nomination form.
As I sit here and think about the many things I have to be thankful for, MSHIMA comes to my mind. As I look back over the many years I have been a part of this amazing organization and cannot help but think of the people that have touched my life. I will save those thank-yous until the end of my term, but I would like each of you to know how vital you are for the success of our profession and our association.
When looking to the future, we have many changes coming. I had mentioned in previous articles that AHIMA has taken a pause to re-evaluate our path. They sent out some information earlier in the month giving us some idea of the direction we will be traveling in the future.
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AHIMA will make two pivots with the first being in 2019. The short-term focus will be on our current strengths while exploring growth opportunities to lead AHIMA toward renewal of the association. The second long-term pivot will be to lay the foundation for innovation and greater impact within the healthcare ecosystem by 2022. One way this will happen is by directing our focus to more productive service lines such as Coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement, AHIMA World Congress Advocacy, Certification/Credentialing, Privacy/Security, Higher Education, Membership Periodicals and Convention. Service lines that will be discontinued are Information Governance, Data Analytics (in its current form), Informatics, Standards and Consumer Engagement.
As you can see, there will be big changes and we are still not sure exactly how all of this will play out in the future. We hope this will help us bring into focus a vision and a path that will help AHIMA stay on the forefront in the healthcare field.
As always, thank you for your continued support and dedication to our profession. I wish you the best and hope your holidays are filled with love, joy, family and friends. Remember to always look for the best in every situation and strive to help be a guiding light for moving into the future. God bless you all and know you may reach out to me at any time!
Lorie B Mills, RHIT, CCS
President
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Call Your U.S. Representative to Support H.R. 5795!
42 CFR Part 2 (Part 2) is a law that regulates the sharing of substance use disorder (SUD) records, limiting the use and disclosure of such records unless a patient provides his or her written consent. Protecting patients’ confidentiality is of the utmost importance. But because substance use disorders can have a complicated ripple effect on a patient’s health that must be carefully managed and coordinated, Part 2 poses a serious safety threat to persons with SUD because providers are often unaware of the risks to their patient from multiple drug interactions and co-existing medical problems.
Introduced by Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), H.R. 5795, the Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety (OPPS) Act, enables the appropriate sharing of substance use disorder records by aligning 42 CFR Part 2 with HIPAA for purposes of treatment, payment and operations. H.R. 5795 also includes criminal, civil and administrative protections for patients during legal proceedings and applies HIPAA penalties to the Part 2 program to ensure that patients can seek treatment without fear of their information being shared inappropriately.
What you can do to help.
We ask that MSHIMA members contact their respective Congressman and ask them to support H.R. 5795. You may do so easily by visiting AHIMA Engage. Click here for a direct link to the action page.
We thank you for your support.
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Join the Mississippi Health Information Management Association for its next Coding Roundtable on Friday, April 20, 2018 from 1 – 3 p.m. at the Mississippi Hospital Association, located at 116 Woodgreen Drive in Madison. This course will be taught by Angie Buckley, RHIT, CCS, and Laura Little, RHIT, CPC, CSS.
Cost: $35 for members, $65 for non members.
2 hours of AHIMA ICD-10 CEs will be offered upon completion.
Click here to learn more and register.
The Mississippi Health Information Management Association is celebrating Health Information Professionals Week (HIP Week) with a special trip to the nation’s capitol for the AHIMA Advocacy Summit.
Representing Mississippi is Laura Little, president; Lorie Mills, program chair; Susan Perkins AHIMA board member; and Ryan Kelly, MSHIMA administrator.
The primary topic of interest for meetings with legislators on Capitol Hill is the problem of patient matching. The mismatch between patients and their clinical data is an increasingly serious patient safety issue that affects clinics and hospitals throughout Mississippi.
The 21st Century Cures Act of 2016 included language requiring the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to evaluate ways in which the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) can improve patient matching methods.
MSHIMA’s ask is to ensure that this allowance is understood by our legislators and that they continue their support of the work on-going with patient matching.
We appreciate your membership and support of MSHIMA, and we look forward to providing updates for you soon. For more information about HIP Week, click here. For ways to celebrate HIP Week, including merchandise for order, click here.