HIX specializes in the providing resources for Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Management (HIM), and Electronic Document Management (EDM) projects.

HIX’s has vastly experienced consultants. Our founder, Kelly McLendon, RHIA won the AHIMA Visionary award for his pioneering electronic record work. He has successfully designed, created and brought to market EHR and EDM systems. The HIX group of consultants has specialized in Health Information Management and IS for healthcare across many fronts.

Services provided by HIX include consultants serving as

• Expert Resources
• Project Managers
• Other project resources

There is so much industry confusion over what it takes to migrate to electronic health records. Regardless of what you call them, electronic health or medical records, HIX has experts that can help your projects be successful

• HIM / Legal Record Management
• CPOE
• Clinical Documentation

Where to start and what to do to insure your EHR has well designed Legal Health Record aspects that protect you in the event of legal actions

• Education on the LHR
• A methodology to get your LHR ready for compliance

HIM (Medical Records) departments are vital to healthcare operations, but many times are challenged with transitions to electronic records. Not only are the HIX experts adept in designing and managing these transformations, but we have tools created that establish state-of-the art Best Practice management unlike any other companies

• HIM operational Dashboard (Watch for a future link to the dashboard)
• EDM (electronic document management) from a front end of Vendor selection to successful paperless management
• Coding workflows
• Deficiency analysis / electronic signatures
• Interface reconciliation
• Transcription workflows
• Documentation Improvement
• EMPI – clean-up
• Paper and hard copy file management (Watch for a future link to a page on the CDMC project at Mercy Health Partners)

It can be intimidating to understand the complexities of going electronic for your clinical records. Let HIX smooth the way with expertise

• Strategies and designs
• Vendor evaluation and selection
• Guidance on integrations to hospital EHR systems

HIX has expertise in RHIO’s (Regional Health Information Exchanges), HIE’s (Health Information Exchanges) and the NHII (National Health Information Infra-structure). These experts are hard to find but we have them available

• Project Management
• EMPI
• Medical records and Privacy
• Strategies for integration with hospital HIM departments

HIX can and does provide Vendor agnostic consulting, however we have structured partnerships with key Vendors to provide services that are cost effective and fit well into the model of the paperless, electronic HIM department.

• Scan capture operations
• Coding and documentation improvement
• Transcription
• EMPI services
• Shelving and hardcopy file management