Rural Hospitals Health Information Management
Great Plains Health Alliance offers Health Information Management services to rural and Critical Access Hospitals. Key features of our services include:
- Evaluating health information management processes of each hospital, including coding, records maintenance, and retrieval
- Providing imaging equipment for use in medical record retention
- Providing comprehensive HIPAA (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act) manual and CD, including policies, forms, and letters which can be adapted to each hospital
- Providing a comprehensive Corporate Compliance Program and committee to review compliance issues
- Providing discount purchasing on computer software and reference manuals
- Providing roundtables for hospital HIM staffs to share information
- Coordinating the collection of statistical data for financial and other reporting requirements
- Providing coding audits and education through a service
- Providing interim coding services through a service
How We Go the Extra Mile
Education, Quality Improvement and Risk Management
- Provide Quality Improvement and Risk Management plans, processes and forms
- Maintain Kansas Licensed Nurse Continuing Education Providership
- Provide educational programming for systems-wide educational needs
- Provide for roundtables to share information among Directors of Nursing, LTC Supervisors, Swing Bed Coordinators, Infection Control Nurses, and others
