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What HIM Leaders Should Know about
the Legal Health Record
No matter what we do on the EHR front, we must still maintain a LHR, we must assure its conformance to
standards of content, accuracy and completeness; we must keep it for decades and guarantee its integrity; we must be able to produce copies of it on demand. Further, the LHR is an essential component of the revenue cycle serving as both the source of coding and the documentation that must be provided to support billing.
This article by Carl Cottrell appeared in the January 2010 edition of HealthLeaders Media.
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Healthcare 2010: What's In Store?
Several of e-health’s leading thinkers, including eWebHealth Vice President of Product Management, Carl Cottrell, offer their perspectives on what promises to be a
landmark year in the industry. This article appeared in the January edition of For The Record.
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EHR and LHR are Distinct Entities
By upgrading an existing paper or hybrid legal health record to a true e-LHR system, hospitals save significant financial and human resources, regardless of their HITECH Act reimbursement status. This article, written by eWebHealth CEO George Abatjoglou, appeared in the November 2009 issue of Health Management Technology.
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Riding the Painted Ponies
Being the second oldest hospital in Minnesota, the staff at Lakeview understands the need to evolve in order to provide the highest possible level of healthcare to our patients. Over the past few years, Lakeview has progressed into one of the state’s finest hospitals, assuming a leadership role in patient satisfaction and procedural advancements.
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Making lt Legal: A Community Hospital Finds Fiscal and Operational Success in a Legal EHR
How do community and rural based hospitals stay afloat amidst all this paper and find a solution to achieve EHR, improve revenue cycle management and gain a competitive advantage? The answer focuses on creating a Legal EHR. Here's how one community-based hospital in Ohio addressed their paper problems and got more than they bargained for.
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Can You Improve Coding's 3 C's at the Same Time?
Yes you can - with a Legal EHR. A copy of this article appeared in both print and online editions of ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals in December 2007. The article was authored by Carl Cottrell, industry expert and Senior Director at eWebHealth.
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Is Your EHR Legal?
A copy of this article appeared in the online edition of ADVANCE for HIM Professionals in 2007. The article was authored by April Robertson, HIM expert and AHIMA Director.
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The Legal Health Record: A Component of Overall EHR Strategy
A copy of this article appeared in the March 2007 print edition of the Journal of AHIMA. The article was authored by Carl Cottrell, industry expert and Senior Director at eWebHealth.
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Swinging for a More Perfect Approach to Coding
A copy of this article appeared in a 2007 online edition of For The Record. The article was authored by Carl Cottrell, industry expert and Senior Director at eWebHealth and eWebHealth.
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Document Management:
One Paving Stone in the Path to EHR
When it comes to automating paper processes, health care is now about where banking, real estate, mortgage, and law administrative practices were 15 years ago. Faced with competitive and regulatory pressures, these industries recognized that significant additional efficiencies were impossible without fundamental changes in their most basic processes. Automation brought about desired operational savings in areas such as staffing, paper transportation and costs, and reclaimed space.
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Case Study: A Country Makeover
Learn how one hospital went from the verge of closing to becoming a high-tech facility featuring an electronic document management system to boost HIM productivity. Authored by Sheila Smith, RHIA, CCS, HIM Director at Ozark Health Medical Center.
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eWebHealth, AHIMA and other industry organizations as well as various industry trade journals have published an array of white papers and articles that provide hospital executives and HIM professionals in-depth information on HIM automation, coding, medical records workflow, and the legal EHR.
