Current Jobs

Caban Resources is looking experienced CCS credentialed Inpatient Coders for local and travel assignments. Some part time work is also available. Please email your resume to careers@cabanresources.com attention Hiring Manager for immediate review.

AHIMA National Convention

Looking forward to the AHIMA convention this October! Caban Resources staff will be there to meet, greet, mingle and network with all the movers and shakers in the HIM world.

California Health Information Association Coding Seminar

Caban Resources proudly sponsors the California Health Information Association's annual Coding updates seminar. This year's speaker is Wanda Ziemba a talented coder, educator and speaker. Caban Resources raffle drawing was a big hit and coders from near and far learned about Caban's great new job opportunities.

Caban Resources has a New Look and a Fresh Face

Check out the newly updated Caban Resources website, www.cabanresources.com for some cool new features like their list of HIT schools and health care trade groups. Also they've added a face to the name as featured on the home page!

Can PHRs make you healthier?

The latest news in Personal Health Records (PHRs) is that our government is spending to find out if maintaining a PHR will improve your health. I can't see why it wouldn't as closely watching your finances typically improves your financial health. Also mentioned is that PHR may someday be as ubiquitous as tax prep software is today - quite a concept!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080205/ap_on_he_me/healthbeat_digital_health

AHIMA's new myPHR

AHIMA announced today it's new personal health record site: http://www.myphr.com/
I'm glad that we have something out there to connect with but we still have a ways to go. Any ideas?

American Health Information Community - AHIC

The US Department of Health Services has a forum for the development of standards for the health information technology community. That includes everyone who works with medical records. In fact, one of our own - Jill Callahan Dennis is on the Confidentiality, Privacy & Security Workgroup

It's important that AHIMA professionals have a voice in this matter and that we all stay informed on the decisions made here - everything that happens here affects us all! Check out the video if you have 4 hours to spend (OK, OK so you don't have that time but you can fast forward thru it!)

http://www.videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=70

Wal-Mart, Intel and others to offer PHRs to employees

Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal announced that several large companies were the latest entrants in the race for developing personal health records for their employees. I'm curious to see how they are managing this information and how access is granted to health care providers from a professional standpoint.

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/09/17/wal-mart-intel-co-try-again-with-online-health-records/

Electronic Medical Records

For many people the allure of electronic medical records (EHRs) is too good to not have armchair discussions about. The realities of the situation are far from simple. There are many groups that have an interest in protected health information and adding transparency to personal health records may not be a good thing for Americans. In addition, many physicians and health care providers, including hospitals, are already using electronic health records in one form or another. When your loved ones life is on the line we all look for excuses and pointing the finger at nameless faceless "paper" records is an easy place to put the blame.

Rather than simply sit back and wait for others to magically come up with a solution, Medical Records & Beyond (MR&B) looks to give light to real world solutions that are currently in place and future ideas that could solve our current problems in the medical record industry.