Bart Howe

Home  | Subscribe  | Resources  | Reprints  | Writers' Guidelines Spring 2025 Issue Balancing Privacy and Access By Bart Howe For The Record Vol. 37 No. 2 P. 24 Overcoming Barriers to Data Exchange HIM has come a long way since the days of paper medical records stowed away in filing cabinets. Rather than drowning in a sea of hand-written documents, health care leaders of today are making leaps and strides to improve data accessibility through interconnected digital systems.

Home  | Subscribe  | Resources  | Reprints  | Writers' Guidelines Fall 2024 Issue Release of Information and Audits By Bart Howe For The Record Vol. 36 No. 4 P. 24 Birds of a Feather (and They Should Stick Together!) Release of information is all about getting patient health data to an authorized requestor, which can include the patient, their representative, and another physician or an attorney, to name a few.

Home  | Subscribe  | Resources  | Reprints  | Writers' Guidelines Summer 2023 Evolving Education: Releasing Medical Records By Bart Howe For The Record Vol. 35 No. 3 P. 28 Five Important Things Staff Need to Know and Do There’s an old proverb that says, “Eat the elephant one bite at a time.” Medical record release is an elephant, but we have five bite-sized tips that will help further your knowledge of this mammoth topic.