HIMentors

02/09/2025

H.I.Mentors is celebrating it's 20th anniversary in 2025! Thank you to all our past and current clients, colleagues, staff, friends, business partners, staff, volunteers, sponsors, educators, clinical practitioners, corporations, and anyone else who has support us through these years. We have worked with nearly 500 organizations, and spoken to or trained over 80,000 individuals. I have been blessed in my 40 year career and am especially proud of my literacy legacy triumph award for my book and my professional practice triumph award for my role in electronic document management from AHIMA as well as my faculty role as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Illinois (my alma mater) where I have endowed a scholarship fun for future HIM students.

In this landmark year, I am taking more time with my family, and other businesses I am involved in and will be decreasing time spent in the HIM world. My website will be updated shortly to adjust to some of these changes. I will always be an active learner, educator, writer, speech giver, and HIM professional at heart, and will continue to take on some consultative work on a very limited basis. Cheers to those who continue on striving for the new roles and challenges of document and data integrity in the medical field. What a great time it is to make a difference in our future in health care administration. Thank you, Darice

11/16/2023

And you think that ICD 10 PC codes are complicated. Check out an ISCC international standard code for a song!

01/18/2023

Health Information managers coding and collecting data accurately lead to excellent informational charts used by the CDC and others to health guide health care policies, disease surveillance, and treatment protocols. How do you use this type of data in your environments to help educate and keep your community protected from the ravage of severe viral illnesses and overburdened medical workers and communities? Share and educate is the new norm.

06/30/2022

Wouldn’t it be great to imagine a world where health care was like this for everyone?

A new kind of doctor's office. Visit goforward.com to learn more.

06/06/2022

During the summer months - with lots of vacations - how are departments and companies handling increased employee shortages? How are continued staff vacancies due to covid surges, and peaks and valleys in workflow? How has work life changed? We improve best practices through sharing solutions. Make a comment here or drop me an email at dariceg@himentors.com.

09/08/2021

As health information professionals - it is our ethical obligation to continue to educate others and dispel misinformation despite whatever societal and political pressures there are. The job has never been easy but it’s what we excel at - documenting the facts.

A new study from CDC’s COVID-NET shows that unvaccinated people are 17x more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than people who are fully vaccinated. Get vaccinated to protect yourself.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/38x7y71.

08/06/2021

Proud to see states standing up and taking responsible action to ensure health care workers are fully vaccinated. We all need to be responsible for public health - the pandemic is not political.

Citing increasing COVID-19 hospitalizations and intensive care unit patients because of the delta variant, the California Department of Public Health issued an order Aug. 5 requiring workers in healthcare to be fully vaccinated.

06/21/2021

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cybersecurity/georgia-health-system-reverts-to-paper-records-after-ransomware-attack-5-details.html?origin=BHRE&utm_source=BHRE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=4802I9424678F1I

St. Joseph's/Candler has switched to backup operation methods, including paper documentation, after a ransomware attack forced the Savannah, Ga.-based health system's computers offline June 17, it said in a Facebook post.

06/21/2021

https://www.elearningconnex.com/courses/chicago-area-health-information-management-association-summer-2021-webinar-bundle-series/

Panelists:Darice Grzybowski, MA, RHIA, FAHIMASandy Routhier, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer and AmbassadorLee M. Tkachuk, CEO, CMT, BS

04/22/2021

In honor of HIP week - please enjoy a discount using the code Darice5 on your registration at the following link https://lnkd.in/eRPT6VE and get some CEU’s from a great webinar drought to you by HCPro and akso enjoy the video greeting by . I kick off the multiple day education session with a talk chock filled with tips for best practices in HIM for critical access (as well as acute care) hospitals.

The Critical Access Hospital and Rural Health Clinics Reimbursement Virtual Symposium will allow CAH and RHC teams the opportunity to learn the latest strategies for managing Medicare policies without leaving the office.

03/18/2021

Hey everyone - inviting you to a Critical Access HIM/Revenue Cycle symposium that I am speaking on April 27-28 for HCPro. http://hcmarketplace.com/cah-rhc-virtual If you use code Darice5 youwill got 5% off the price of the seminar. Start getting those CE's early- should be a great virtual event. HCPro American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)

The Critical Access Hospital and Rural Health Clinics Reimbursement Virtual Symposium will allow CAH and RHC teams the opportunity to learn the latest strategies for managing Medicare policies without leaving the office.

02/11/2021

Looking outside the US - countries like Israel are leading the way in scientific development and also being flexible with work, schools and social activities to respond to the cycle of spikes a pandemic brings. Thought this was an interesting article as our country attempts to battle the outbreaks still occurring.

Pfizer CEO echoes Netanyahu, UK authorities in saying strains of coronavirus likely to remain around indefinitely