Panther Health Information Management Student Association

FHIMA CEU Opportunities! Mark your Calendars!

2007-10-26T11:15:00.001-05:00

A few CEU opportunities to mark on your calendar…

1) Suncoast Health Information Management Association presents...

Celebrate National Health Information and Technology week by earning 6 CEUs with SHIMA! Join Suncoast HIMA for an educational seminar on Friday, November 9th 7:30am to 4:30pm at Jupiter Medical Center. Sessions will highlight EHR, Joint Commission standards and ROI technology. Breakfast and lunch provided!

Only $45.00 for members! $55 for non-members and $25 for students.

For Registration Form, CLICK HERE

For more information contact, Celina Gamble at cgamblec@hotmail.com or Fred McCall at fmccall@comcast.net

2) Southwest Florida Health Information Management Association presents...

Annual Educational Seminar - 6 CE’s – AHIMA Approved

Thursday, November 15, 2007

HODGES UNIVERSITY (formerly International College) in the Community Room
4501 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers, FL 33912 (corner of Colonial Blvd. and Winkler Avenue Extension)

CLICK HERE for Southwest HIMA Annual Educational Seminar Registration Form and Agenda

For more information on this event, contact: Marie McIvor, MHA, RHIA, CCS at (941) 613-3621

Carolyn Glavan, MS, RHIA

Executive Director, FHIMA

7510 Ehrlich Road

Tampa, FL 33625

813-792-9550

fhima@infionline.net

JCAHO ... now The Joint Commission

2007-06-29T10:39:00.000-05:00

http://www.jointcommission.org/
The Joint Commission Launches New Brand Identity
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Welcome to The Joint Commission’s new website! The website now reflects The Joint Commission’s new brand and logo, as well as our new tagline, “Helping Health Care Organizations Help Patients.”
The new brand reflects The Joint Commission’s continuing efforts to improve the value of accreditation and its utility as a mechanism for improving the quality and safety of patient care. You’ll be pleased to know that we’re also shortening our name to “The Joint Commission,” formerly 'Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations'. If you have questions about the new brand or suggestions for further improving The Joint Commission’s accreditation activities, please let us know by e-mailing us at Brand@jointcommission.org.
The "Jayco" extranet also has a new name - The Joint Commission Connect. Click on the Joint Commission Connect logo to access the extranet website.

Southeast Radiology Management

2007-05-31T12:12:00.000-05:00

We are currently seeking someone to work in our billing office (located in Stuart), part-time on a temporary basis (through August), however the position could become a full-time permanent position by September.

Duties include: Coding, charge entry, payment posting, claim denials and appeals and account follow-up.

Due to the short time frame, candidate must have experience in radiology coding and billing.

If you are interested please respond via email or fax resume to the number below. If you know someone who may be interested, please send them my way!

Thanks!

Stacie L. Buck, RHIA, CCS-P, LHRM, RCC
Vice President, Southeast Radiology Management
"Your Radiology Business Experts"

Phone (772) 600-0324
Fax (772) 600-0327

Southeast Radiology Management - www.seradmgt.com

Jupiter Medical Center

2007-05-31T12:09:00.000-05:00

Jupiter Medical Center and The Pavilion at Jupiter Medical Center will be recruiting at PBCC in Palm Beach Gardens on Thursday, June 7, 2007, from 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. outside the AA Building on the breezeway.

They will be recruiting for over 70 positions, including Certified Nursing Assistants, Client Service Coordinators, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Dietary Tech., Healthcare Lab Techs., LPNs, RNs, Radiation Therapists, Radiology Techs., various administrative support and management positions. More information about their job opportunities can be found under CAREERS on the Jupiter Medical Center’s website at www.jupitermed.com.

Please encourage students to come meet with their Human Resources Representatives if they are interested in working for Jupiter Medical Center and the Pavilion at Jupiter Medical Center.

Regards,

Amber Palomares

P.S.
Please pass this information on to other instructors in your department who can inform students in their class.
Thank you!

Career Development Advisor
Career Center
Palm Beach Community College
3160 PGA Boulevard
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410-2893
Phone: (561) 207-5352
Fax: (561) 207-5343

Check out this site!!

2007-05-24T13:24:00.000-05:00

Out-of-Pocket Expenditure (as Percent of Private Expenditure on Health)
2003

Global health data provided by GlobalHealthFacts.org
Customize a map for your website

Many more charts and data available... great for research!

Cardiology Receptionist Position

2007-05-14T12:39:00.000-05:00

A full time position.
hours are i think either 8-430 or 830-5 mon-fri.
no weekends.
no late days.
Located in PBG next to the pbgmc.
would prefer someone with experience. has to have patience with old people and be able to do deal with a 6 dr practice. 2 ofc's.
VERY heavy phones.
Cardiology ofc.
Medical office experience is preferred.
fax resumes to Linda 775-1064. I

Jupiter Medical Center is looking for transcriptionists!!!

2007-05-14T12:37:00.000-05:00

Jupiter Medical Center is looking for transcriptionists!!!

Call Recruiter Erin Perry at 1-866-562-4473

Docs Change the Way They Think About Death

2007-05-05T21:41:00.000-05:00

MSNBC.com

Docs Change the Way They Think About Death

The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks—and death itself.
By Jerry Adler
Newsweek
May 7, 2007 issue - Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood. All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating—the definition of "clinical death"—and his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died?
As recently as 1993, when Dr. Sherwin Nuland wrote the best seller "How We Die," the conventional answer was that it was his cells that had died. The patient couldn't be revived because the tissues of his brain and heart had suffered irreversible damage from lack of oxygen. This process was understood to begin after just four or five minutes. If the patient doesn't receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation within that time, and if his heart can't be restarted soon thereafter, he is unlikely to recover. That dogma went unquestioned until researchers actually looked at oxygen-starved heart cells under a microscope. What they saw amazed them, according to Dr. Lance Becker, an authority on emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "After one hour," he says, "we couldn't see evidence the cells had died. We thought we'd done something wrong." In fact, cells cut off from their blood supply died only hours later.
But if the cells are still alive, why can't doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when their oxygen supply is resumed. It was that "astounding" discovery, Becker says, that led him to his post as the director of Penn's Center for Resuscitation Science, a newly created research institute operating on one of medicine's newest frontiers: treating the dead.
Biologists are still grappling with the implications of this new view of cell death—not passive extinguishment, like a candle flickering out when you cover it with a glass, but an active biochemical event triggered by "reperfusion," the resumption of oxygen supply. The research takes them deep into the machinery of the cell, to the tiny membrane-enclosed structures known as mitochondria where cellular fuel is oxidized to provide energy. Mitochondria control the process known as apoptosis, the programmed death of abnormal cells that is the body's primary defense against cancer. "It looks to us," says Becker, "as if the cellular surveillance mechanism cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and a cell being reperfused with oxygen. Something throws the switch that makes the cell die."
With this realization came another: that standard emergency-room procedure has it exactly backward. When someone collapses on the street of cardiac arrest, if he's lucky he will receive immediate CPR, maintaining circulation until he can be revived in the hospital. But the rest will have gone 10 or 15 minutes or more without a heartbeat by the time they reach the emergency department. And then what happens? "We give them oxygen," Becker says. "We jolt the heart with the paddles, we pump in epinephrine to force it to beat, so it's taking up more oxygen." Blood-starved heart muscle is suddenly flooded with oxygen, precisely the situation that leads to cell death. Instead, Becker says, we should aim to reduce oxygen uptake, slow metabolism and adjust the blood chemistry for gradual and safe reperfusion.
Researchers are still working out how best to do this. A study at four hospitals, published last year by the University of California, showed a remarkable rate of success in treating sudden cardiac arrest with an approach that involved, among other things, a "cardioplegic" blood infusion to keep the heart in a state of suspended animation. Patients were put on a heart-lung bypass machine to maintain circulation to the brain until the heart could be safely restarted. The study involved just 34 patients, but 80 percent of them were discharged from the hospital alive. In one study of traditional methods, the figure was about 15 percent.
Becker also endorses hypothermia—lowering body temperature from 37 to 33 degrees Celsius—which appears to slow the chemical reactions touched off by reperfusion. He has developed an injectable slurry of salt and ice to cool the blood quickly that he hopes to make part of the standard emergency-response kit. "In an emergency department, you work like mad for half an hour on someone whose heart stopped, and finally someone says, 'I don't think we're going to get this guy back,' and then you just stop," Becker says. The body on the cart is dead, but its trillions of cells are all still alive. Becker wants to resolve that paradox in favor of life.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186/site/newsweek/?GT1=9951

PHIMSA Newsletter April 2007

2007-05-01T13:13:00.000-05:00

PHIMSA Newsletter April 2007

AHIMA Scholarships

2007-04-30T08:04:00.001-05:00

The FORE student scholarship application deadline has been extended to May 18, 2007. Last year over 90+ scholarships were awarded - a terrific way for students to help reach their HIM career goal. Applications can be obtained online from the AHIMA homepage, under Foundation:
http://www.ahima.org/fore/student/

New Link on this Blog for MTs

2007-04-25T11:25:00.000-05:00

I just found this link and it looks like a great site for our Medical Transcriptionist....

http://www.mtmonthly.com/medicaltranscriptionnews.htm

Tell me what you think!

Treasure Coast Chapter of AAMT meeting

2007-04-16T13:42:00.000-05:00

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Palm Beach Community College

ETA 248

6:30 pm

Speaker : Marie Munro, CCS, CTR, CRA - Coding Supervisor at Indian River Medical Center

7:00 - 8:00

2007-04-12T15:06:00.000-05:00

Scholarships available

2007-04-04T07:51:00.000-05:00

Health Professions Scholarship Application
Eligibility Criteria and Instructions

(If you are applying for a nursing faculty scholarship, please see specific eligibility criteria and instructions for that application.)

PLEASE CAREFULLY AND THOROUGHLY READ ALL ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND INSTRUCTIONS. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Eligibility Criteria: To qualify for a Palm Healthcare Foundation (“PHF” or “Foundation”) Health Professions Scholarship, you must meet ALL of the following criteria:
1. You must be a resident of Palm Beach County, Florida.
2. You must be a current or prospective student who is, or will be as of fall 2007, enrolled as a full-time student in an accredited program of organized instruction or study that leads to an academic, professional, or vocational degree or certificate (or other recognized educational credential) in the healthcare field. The Foundation does not currently provide scholarship funding for pre-requisite courses for limited-access programs.
The school you are attending must be located in Palm Beach County, Florida. However, the Foundation will also consider applications from students enrolled in accredited online programs (e.g., The University of Phoenix). In addition, the Foundation will consider applications from students enrolled in schools outside of Palm Beach County under certain, limited circumstances. For example, if only one program of study in a particular healthcare field (e.g., pharmacy) exists in Palm Beach County, the Foundation may consider applications from students attending a school in another county in southeastern Florida (i.e., Miami-Dade, Broward, Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties).
3. You must maintain at least a 2.5 overall GPA.
4. After graduating from a healthcare program, you must work in Palm Beach County in a healthcare profession for one year for each year of PHF scholarship funding you receive.
Please note that the Foundation’s scholarship funds will be paid directly to your school, and may be used only to cover the cost of tuition, books and lab fees.
Please contact Clarisse May at (561) 833-6333, or cmay@phfpbc.org, if you have ANY questions about eligibility or use of scholarship funds.
Instructions: The Foundation’s scholarship application will need to be completed online in one sitting. That is, if you begin the online application but are unable to complete the process, your data will not be saved (you will need to start the process again). Therefore, we strongly encourage you to print out a paper copy of the application before starting to complete the online form. This way, you can prepare in advance all the information you will need, and think about your answers to the essay questions.

The online application can be completed and submitted from any computer with Internet access (e.g., home, school, public library). Computers are also available at the Foundation to complete the online application process. Please contact Clarisse May at (561) 833-6333, or cmay@phfpbc.org, if you would like to schedule a time to use a Foundation computer to complete the online scholarship application. If you are unable to complete the scholarship application online, please contact Clarisse May. Under limited circumstances, we will accept paper applications, but you must contact us to discuss this in advance.

In addition to completing the online application, you may be responsible for providing us with hard copies of the following documents. All applicants must submit to PHF items 1 and 2 below; please read items 3, 4 and 5 to determine whether you must submit these documents.

1. All applicants: Official transcript from the school you are currently attending, or most recently attended.

2. All applicants: Official proof of current attendance at, or acceptance into, an accredited program of study. For limited-access programs, you must provide proof of attendance or acceptance into the specific healthcare program, not just the school. For example, if you attend (or plan to attend) a college or university registered nursing program, you must provide proof of attendance or acceptance into the registered nursing program, not just proof of general attendance or acceptance into the college or university. An official letter from your school indicating attendance or acceptance into a limited-access program is sufficient.

(The Foundation is aware that some schools send out acceptance notices over the summer. If you are awaiting notice of acceptance, you may complete the rest of the application and send notice of acceptance when available.)

3. Applicants filing the FAFSA: Palm Healthcare Foundation considers financial need when awarding scholarships. Though not required, we strongly encourage you to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which is a first step to applying for financial aid and/or most scholarships that require evidence of financial need. To file the FAFSA, or for more information about FAFSA, please visit http://www.fasfa.ed.gov/, or the financial aid office at your school. We strongly encourage you to file the FAFSA as soon as possible, if you have not already done so. If you already have filed, or will be filing, a current FAFSA, you will need to send us a copy of the official Student Aid Report you receive(d) following submission of the FAFSA.
4. Applicants not filing the FAFSA: You will need to send us a copy of the first page of the 2006 tax return for each person in your household who contributes to the household income.

5. Applicants applying for financial aid through the school you will be attending during the term of this scholarship: You will need to send us a copy of the financial aid award letter/notice you receive(d) from your school.

These documents may be sent to the foundation at any time after you complete the online application, but they must be received by the scholarship deadline of May 18, 2007. Please send all follow-up documents in one package / at the same time, if possible. Please contact Clarisse May at (561) 833-6333, or cmay@phfpbc.org, if you do not have, or otherwise are unable to submit, these documents by the scholarship deadline. Documents should be mailed or faxed to:

Ms. Clarisse May
Program Coordinator
Palm Healthcare Foundation, Inc.
1016 North Dixie Highway
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401
Fax: (561) 833-0070
Tips for Completing the Application

1. Be organized and give yourself plenty of time!

2. Prepare all application materials in advance of starting the online application process.

3. Print out and review a copy of these instructions and the scholarship application you will be using. Although you will need to complete the application online, this will help you gather all the information you will need in advance of starting the online process. Remember, your data will not be saved if you are unable to complete the online application in one sitting (i.e., you will need to start the process again if you stop before completing the online process).

4. If you have not already done so and plan to, complete the FAFSA as soon as possible. FAFSA processing can take several weeks. Remember, if you are filing a FAFSA, you will need to send us a copy of your Student Aid Report. In addition, you will need to send us a copy of your financial aid award letter/notice, if you are applying for financial aid through your school.

5. If you are not filing the FAFSA, obtain and send to PHF as soon as possible the first page of the 2006 tax return for each person in your household who contributes to the household income.

6. As soon as possible, obtain and send to PHF an official transcript from the school you currently attend, or most recently attended.

7. As soon as possible, send to PHF proof of your attendance or acceptance into an accredited program of study.

8. Compose a thoughtful Statement of Financial Need (essay) that will help our scholarship committee members understand your current financial situation and why you need a PHF scholarship. You will be asked to submit this as part of the online application. Describe any unusual expenses or hardships in your household that affect your ability to pay for school; any changes in circumstances since you filed your most-recent FAFSA; and any unusual circumstances that affect your eligibility for financial aid. Examples might include, but are not limited to, the following: single parent, parental unemployment, bankruptcy, unforeseen medical expenses, siblings or dependents in college, or property loss due to hurricanes.

9. Compose a thoughtful Personal Statement (essay) that will help our scholarship committee members understand you as an individual. You will be asked to submit this as part of the online application. In this essay, please describe your professional goals and career plans; events or experiences that have led you to pursue a nursing or other healthcare career; and how your caring and compassion have made a difference in someone’s life. Please also discuss what you think will be the biggest challenges and rewards in your career.

10. The Foundation will need to receive the online application, and all other required documents, by the scholarship deadline of May 18, 2007. Please send all follow-up documents in one package / at the same time, if possible. If you are unable to complete the application or submit the appropriate documents by that date, you must contact us to discuss your situation.

Please contact Clarisse May at (561) 833-6333, or cmay@phfpbc.org, if you have ANY questions about the PHF scholarship application. WE ARE HAPPY TO HELP!
Application Checklist for your records:

1. Date online application was completed: ____________________________________________________________________________________
2. Date official transcript was sent to PHF: ___________________________________________________________________________________
3. Date proof of attendance or acceptance was sent to PHF: ______________________________________________________________________
4. Date Student Aid Report was sent to PHF (for students filing the FAFSA): _________________________________________________________
5. Date tax return information was sent to PHF (for students not filing the FAFSA): ____________________________________________________
6. Date Financial Aid Letter/ Notice was sent to PHF (for students applying for financial aid through school): ________________________________

Medical Coder/Biller Program Approved!!

2007-04-02T11:33:00.000-05:00

We just got the news on Friday! Our medical coder/biller program is now an AHIMA approved coding program.

Thanks to all the people who were involved in the Certified Education Program process!

2007-03-15T14:24:00.000-05:00

Hello and welcome!

This site is intended to help, support, assist, and join the students in the Medical Coder/Biller Program at Palm Beach Community College. We are currently under construction, but please send us suggestions.

Thank you....

Panther Health Information Management Student Association

FHIMA CEU Opportunities! Mark your Calendars!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

HODGES UNIVERSITY (formerly International College) in the Community Room 4501 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers, FL 33912 (corner of Colonial Blvd. and Winkler Avenue Extension)

JCAHO ... now The Joint Commission

Southeast Radiology Management

Jupiter Medical Center

Check out this site!!

Cardiology Receptionist Position

Jupiter Medical Center is looking for transcriptionists!!!

Docs Change the Way They Think About Death

PHIMSA Newsletter April 2007

AHIMA Scholarships

New Link on this Blog for MTs

Treasure Coast Chapter of AAMT meeting

Scholarships available

Medical Coder/Biller Program Approved!!

HODGES UNIVERSITY (formerly International College) in the Community Room
4501 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers, FL 33912 (corner of Colonial Blvd. and Winkler Avenue Extension)