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Press Releases

• Care Communications, Inc. Advises Healthcare Organizations to Maintain Preparation for ICD-10 - 4/10/12
• Care Communications, Inc. Urges Healthcare Providers to Make the Best of the ICD-10 Time Delay and be More Successful - 2/17/12
• Care Communications, Inc. Named One of the Country's "Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" - 1/9/12
• Care Communications, Inc. Launches ICD-10 Documentation and Risk Assessment Services - 11/9/11
• Care Communications, Inc. Collaborates with Elsevier/MC Strategies to Offer ICD-10 Solution to Healthcare Organizations - 9/30/11
• Patty Thierry Sheridan Earns Fellowship Status in American Health Information Management Associaton - 8/29/11
• Care Communications, Inc. Named an Elite Winner Among Top Chicago Employers - 8/25/11
• Care Communications, Inc. Announces 20 Percent Revenue Growth in First Half of 2011 - 8/12/11
• Care Communications, Inc. Recognized as One of "Chicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" - 7/13/11
• Indiana Health Information Management Association Names Nancy Coffman-Kadish a Distinguished Member - 7/1/11
• Care Communications, Inc. Named an Elite Winner Among Top Chicago Employers - 9/8/10
• Care Communications, Inc. President Patty Thierry Sheridan Elected AHIMA President-elect - 7/28/10
• Care Communications, Inc. Named a Top Chicago Employer for Third Consecutive Year - 7/22/10
• Care Communications, Inc. Appoints Nancy Coffman-Kadish to Director of Research Services - 5/13/10
• Care Communications, Inc. Appoints Kathy Johnson, RHIA to Vice President, Coding Quality and Compliance Services - 5/6/10
• Patty Thierry Sheridan nominated for AHIMA President-elect - 3/9/10
• Announcing “Leading a Business in Anxious Times," a must read for any leader during these challenging times - 9/29/09
• CARE Recognized for Second Consecutive Year as One of “Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For” - 7/13/09
• Care Communications, Inc. Releases White Paper Examining Effective Ways to Incorporate Medical Record Data into Large Scale Research Projects - 5/18/09
• Care Communications, Inc. Announces Record Year in 2008, 23 Percent Revenue Growth - 1/29/09
• Care Communications, Inc. Generates 26 Percent Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth Through Q3 - 10/13/08
• Care Communications, Inc. Announces Record-Paced First Half Growth - 8/19/08
• Care Communications, Inc. Announces Surge in Q1 Consulting Services - 5/28/08
• CARE Appoints Laurie Hebert as Director of Cancer Registry Services - 6/18/07
• Care Communications Signs Agreement with VHA Inc. - 10/7/06
• Care Communications and the American Health Information Management Association Announce the 300th Graduate of their Collaborative Leadership Training Programs - 10/2/06
• Care Communications Nets 50 New and Returning Clients Thus Far in 2006 - 9/27/06
• Care Communications President, Patricia Thierry Sheridan, Elected to the American Health Information Management Association Board of Directors - 8/7/06
• Care Communications Celebrates 30 Years of Health Information Management Excellence - 8/11/06
• Care Communications, Inc. Appoints Patricia Thierry Sheridan President - 6/7/04
• Alliance Helps Hospitals Achieve and Maintain a Clean Electronic Health Record System - 8/11/03
• Health Information Management Leadership Center Launches - 10/13/03

ICD-10 Resources

• CARE ICD-10 Readiness Statement
• Data Analytics 09.2009
• Seven Tips for Creating ICD-10 Urgency
• ICD-10 CM/PCS-What’s the Urgency
• Making the switch to ICD-10
• ICD-10 Leadership Awareness Presentation
• ICD-10 Implementation Action Plan

CCH Articles

• Alphabet Soup Compliance – Effectively Managing HACs, MACs and RACs” CCH Health Care Compliance Letter May 29, 2009
• "POA Coding Requirements Create a Chilling Effect for Hospitals” CCH Health Care Compliance Letter January 13, 2009

HFMA Articles

• Revenue Cycle Strategist - July-August 2011
• Revenue Cycle Strategist - October 2009
• Revenue Cycle Strategist - Feburary 2008
• Revenue Cycle Strategist - March 2007

Revenue Cycle & Operations Management

• New scrutiny on the way -- MICs eye overpayments, governance - 2/26/10

Health Services Research in HIM

• On the Road to the EHR: Northwest Community Hospital, Part 2
• On the Road to the EHR: Northwest Community Hospital, Part 1
• On the road to the EHR: The Watertown Regional Medical Center Experience

Notable News Items

• Take 5 Data Quality Interview: Leslie Fox, CEO - 2/10/12
• Care Communications Unveils Transformational Leadership Development Program - 2/27/06
• Electronic Health Record (EHR) at the Tipping Point
• US Healthcare Strategies Report, May 2005; Unlocking the Secret  to Successful Transformational Change Leadership
• The (FY) 2004 Final Rule due from CMS August 1st, 2003
• The Urgency to Clean Data in Patient Registration Systems Fueled By Impending Incentives for Implementing An Electronic Health Record

Case Studies

• Medical Chart Research Study - November 2011
• Medical Chart Research Study - November 2011
• Care Communications, Brown University & the National Lung Screening Trial
• Care Communications & CHRISTUS Spohn Health System
• CARE Medical Record Research Experience
• Community Memorial Ventura – Clinical Documentation Improvement
• Care Communications & Kaiser Permanente... expanding and improving the revenue cycle
• Care Communications & Samaritan Health Services... MPI Design & Cleanup
• Care Communications & The Medical Center of Arlington, TX

CARE Dialogue Newsletters   --   Subscribe to The CARE Dialogue

• The CARE Dialogue – 3/3/11
• The CARE Dialogue – 12/7/10
• The CARE Dialogue – 9/21/10
• The CARE Dialogue – 6/22/10
• The CARE Dialogue – 3/2/10
• The CARE Dialogue – 9/30/09

Resource Tools

• HITECH Privacy & Security Check List (download Word document)
• RAC Readiness Checklist (download Word document)
• CARE & VHA MsDRG RAC Webinar Presentation
• Crosswalk from Current DRGs
• Legal Health Record Matrix
• HIM EHR Self Assessment Tool
• Major HIPAA Privacy Rule Requirement Checklist
• Sample Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Sample Qualitative Risk Analysis
• Case Mix Analysis Worksheet
• Sample HIPAA Security Officer Job Description
• Initial HIPAA Privacy Rule Compliance Checklist
• HIPAA Jeopardy - Privacy Rule Questions and Answers

White Papers

• Leading Through Massive Change in the Cancer Registry
• Medical Record Data Abstraction…Simplified
• Changing Education Requirements Shake Up Hospital Cancer Committees

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2012

• Top Five Aha's From I-10 Gap Assessments-4/4/12
• On the Road to ICD-10-2/23/12
• Parallel Processing: Key Strategic Element in ICD-10 Implementation Plans-1/26/12

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2011

• The ICD-10 Vision: An Essential Element in Your Change Leadership Framework! Part II-12/27/11
• The ICD-10 Vision: An Essential Element in Your Change Leadership Framework-11/30/11
• Action Now! The Buzz at the AHIMA National Convention and Exhibit-11/2/11
• The HIM Workforce Shortage: An Opportuntity to Employ Four Generations-10/5/11
• Accountable Care: How Are You Helping Your Organization Prepare?-9/7/11
• Big Changes Ahead: Preparing for the 2012 Cancer Program Standards, Part 2-8/11/11
• Big Changes Ahead: Preparing for the 2012 Cancer Program Standards-7/13/11
• Meeting Meaningful Use Criteria: An HIM Vision or Nightmare? Part 2-6/13/11
• Meeting Meaningful Use Criteria: An HIM Vision or Nightmare?-5/18/11
• Can HIM Leaders Create a Culture of Calm?-4/20/11
• A Leadership Role for HIM Professionals in Meaningful Use-3/23/11
• ICD-10 Implementation: Creating Urgency-2/23/11
• Seven Tips for Creating ICD-10 Urgency-1/26/11

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2010

• ICD-10-CM/PCS What's the Urgency?-12/7/10
• Solutions Architect: An Emerging Role for HIM Professionals-11/10/10
• A New Frontier in Healthcare Data Quality Control-9/14/10
• Honoring the Legacy of an HIM Pioneer: The June Wallace Looby Story-8/19/10
• AHIMA Works on HIM Core Model-7/19/10
• Business Associate Agreements: Key HITECH Changes to Consider-6/9/10
• From Cancer Registrars to Cancer Data Managers: The Dawn of a New Age-5/12/10
• HIM Patient Centered Practices: Free Access to Health Information-4/14/10
• Patient Centered Practices: The Next HIM Imperative-3/15/10
• Leadership and Management: Different But Not Mutually Exclusive-2/17/10
• Dealing With Constant Change-1/18/10

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2009

• Reflections on 2009-12/16/09
• A Call to Action for 2010-11/18/09
• Leading in Anxious Times: Part II-10/21/09
• Leading in Anxious Times-9/21/09
• Project Management: What Every HIM Professional Needs to Know-8/26/09
• Cancer Registrars Prepare for Sweeping Changes-7/15/09
• Meaningful Use: A Defining Moment in EHR Adoption-6/17/09
• Documentation: A High Stakes Game-5/20/09
• Recovery Act: Highlights and the HIM Imperative-4/22/09
• Wanted: Coders for Physician Group Practices-3/23/09
• The Inconvenient Truth: Leading the Way to EHRs-2/25/09
• Leading the Way to the EHR-1/12/09

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2008

• Call for Coding Leadership Strengthens-12/15/08
• RACs Are Coming! RACs Are Coming!-11/17/08
• New Coding System on the Horizon, Part 2-10/20/08
• New Coding System on the Horizon-9/22/08
• PQRI: What Coders Need to Know-8/25/08
• Coders Prepare for Today, Tomorrow: Part Three-7/28/08
• Coders Prepare for Today, Tomorrow: Part Two-6/30/08
• Coders Prepare for Today, Tomorrow: Part One-6/2/08
• Physicians, Coders Working Together-5/5/08
• Are You Ready for ECRM?-4/7/08
• HIPAA Security Enforcement Heating Up-3/10/08
• Automating the Coding Process-2/11/08
• PHRs Are Gaining Momentum-1/14/08

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2007

• Medical Identity Theft—Growing in Frequency with Devastating Consequences-12/31/07
• Ready or Not, RACs Are Coming!-11/5/07
• Leading the Way to the Future State of HIM-10/8/07
• Public Reporting: Are You Ready?-9/10/07
• EHR Adoption: What's Happening? Part 3-8/13/07
• EHR Adoption: What's Happening? Part 2-7/16/07
• EHR Adoption: What's Happening? Part 16/19/07
• The Legal Health Record Challenge-5/22/07
• The Legal Health Record Challenge, Part 1-3/27/07
• Evidence-based Practice Research, Part 3-2/27/07
• Evidence-based Practice Research, Part 2-1/30/07
• Evidence-based Practice Research-1/10/07

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2006

• The Decade of HIM Part II-12/4/06
• Millions of People Are Coming To the Party: The Decade of HIM-11/6/06
• Career Building: Are You in the Right Place?-10/9/06
• Clinical Documentation Improvement: Quality Information Through Quality Data-9/11/06
• The Challenge and the Promise of Personal Health Records: The Consumer's View-8/15/06
• People Skills: The Art of Relationships In Organizations Leads to Success-7/18/06
• Personal Health Records: What's New?-6/20/06
• The Work Force Crisis: The Dilemma of Transforming the HIM Profession-5/22/06
• Standards Harmonization: Music to Our Ears-4/25/06
• The Dawning of a New Era for HIM, Part 2-2/28/06
• The Dawning of a New Era for HIM-2/28/06
• EMR or EHR: Is There Really a Difference?-1/30/06
• EHR Goals Accomplished in 2005: Part 2-1/3/06

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2005

• The Future State of HIM: A Bold New Vision-8/15/05
• From the Trenches: EHR Strategies and the Role of Health Information Management-7/18/05
• Managing the EHR: New Job Descriptions for HIM Professionals-6/20/05
• The Role of an HIM Professional in An Information Systems Department-5/23/05
• EHR Creates New Careers for HIM Professionals-4/25/05
• Strategies for Creating Urgency for EHR Funding and Implementation-3/28/05
• EHR Transitions Don't Require A Big Bang to Be Successful-2/28/05
• Data Quality and the Medical Record Committee in the Electronic World-1/31/05
• HIM Professionals Discuss Goals for 2005-1/3/05

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2004

• Transforming Health Record Management: A Strategic Role for HIM Professionals-11/8/04
• EHR Tales from the Trenches-12/19/04
• Personal Health Records: The New Frontier-9/14/04
• Electronic Health Records Momentum And the Role of Document Imaging-8/16/04
• Consumer Health Information Advocate: New Role for HIM Professionals - 7/19/04
• It's All About Leadership - 6/21/04
• Exciting News! Anxious Times! And HIM Leaders Are Needed! - 5/24/04
• Speech Recognition Technology: An e-HIM® Clinical Documentation Process - 4/26/04
• Project Managers Must Be Good Leaders - 3/29/04
• When HIM Has 'A Seat at the EHR Table - 3/1/04
• Developing Leadership Skills for an EHR Transition
• Change Management: Top EHR Concern
• EHR Preparation: Building Your MPI Game Plan - 2/2/04

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2003

• EHR Reaches It's 'Tipping Point - 10/13/03
• Does The Vision or Your EHR Steering Committee Square with the IOM's? - 9/15/03
• Creating a Unified Vision of the EHR - 8/18/03
• Multiple Visions Undermine Success of EHRs - 7/21/03
• The Changing Coding Landscape - 6/23/03
• The Missing Module in the Electronic Health Record: HIM Workflow, Part II - 5/26/03
• The Missing Module in the Electronic Health Record: HIM Workflow - 5/26/03
• Down to the Wire: On the Brink of HIPAA - 3/31/03
• e-HIM®: The End-User Perspective - 2/3/03
• Moving Incrementally Toward e-HIM® - 3/3/03
• e-HIM®: It's Crunch Time on the Front Line - 1/6/03

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2002

• Designing a Remote Coding Program: Seven Steps to Success, Part III - 12/9/02
• Designing a Remote Coding Program: Seven Steps to Success, Part II - 12/9/02
• Designing a Remote Coding Program: Seven Steps to Success, Part I - 12/9/02
• The Remote Coding Project Manager's Role - 9/16/02
• e-HIM®: A New Vision of HIM Practice - 8/19/02
• Coming Soon: Going Wireless in Health Care - 7/22/02
• Changing Paradigms Challenge Our Thinking - 7/22/02
• Remote Coding Policy: Getting Started - 5/22/02
• Imaging, Clinical Systems and Work Flow: All Roads Lead to the CPR - 4/29/02
• CPR and the Role of the HIM Professional - 4/1/02
• IT Priorities Impact HIM Practices - 3/4/02
• Project Managers Must Be Good Leaders - 1/21/02
• Leading the Transformation to eHIM - 1/7/02

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2001

• Leadership and the Challenge of Change - 12/3/01
• Selecting Remote Coding Technology - 11/5/01
• Implementing Document Imaging Technology: The Big Picture - 10/8/01
• Imaging Solutions for Remote Coding Vs. Medical Record Document Imaging Systems - 9/10/01
• Remote Access Technology: The Great Enabler - 7/30/01
• E-health: A Discussion of New Work Settings - 7/16/01
• Are you HIPAAtized? Get a Grip on HIPAA Implementation Essentials - 6/18
• A Day in the Life of a Remote Coder - 5/21/01
• Remote Coding: A Staffing Solution - 4/23/01
• Home-Based Coding: "So When Already?" Readers Want to Know - 3/12/01
• Remote Coding: An Ongoing Dialogue - 2/12/01
• A New Millennium Challenge: Remote Coding - 1/29/01

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 2000

• Are Your Technology Skills Sharper - 12/11/00
• IT Professionals Identify Health Care Technology Trends of the Future - 11/13
• E-Health: Deploying Internet Technologies - 10/16/00
• Exploring Health Care Information System Roles for HIM Professionals - 9/18/00
• An Introduction to Project Management - 8/21/00
• Purchasing a Home Computer - 7/24/00
• Computer Skills for the Information Age, Part 2 - 5/29/00
• Computer Skills for the Information Age, Part 1 - 5/29/00
• Key Health Care Trends Impact Computing - 5/1/00
• Home-Based or Bust: Developing A Telecommuting Program - 4/3/00
• Renting Software Through an ASP - 3/6/00
• Leveraging Internet Technologies - 2/7/00
• Becoming Technology Savvy: Where Do HIM Professionals Start? - 1/10/00
• Leadership Principle: Focus on Strength, not Pathology - 10/30/00
• Hands-On Help: Relationship Management
• Relationship Management

Hands on Help Articles; Advance for Health Information Professionals - 1999

• Systems Thinking Can Enhance, Encourage Your Leadership Development - 11/22/99
• Staffing Changes Impact Emotional Functioning in the Workplace - 10/25/99
• Projection: Anxiety Flows Downhill - 9/27/99
• Temporary Employees' Anxiety Can Undermine the Functioning of Others - 8/30/99
• Over-Functioning Can Be a Symptom Of Anxiety in the HIM Workplace - 8/2/99
• Differentiation Provides A Clear Vision of High Level Functioning - 7/5/99
• Systems Vs. Individual Thinking - 6/7/99
• Where Are You in Your Triangles? - 5/10/99
• Emotional Process Is Played Out in Triangle - 4/12/99
• Emotional Process in the Workplace Can Impact Job Performance - 3/15/99
• HIM Professionals Are Finding New Ways to Work - 2/15/99