AHIMA March 18, 2021
March 12 was the last face-to-face IT leadership meeting I attended in 2020. Directors were mandated to work remotely and send staff home to work, effective immediately.
The federal government and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had officially declared the virus a pandemic. Businesses were shutting down. Stay-at-home orders had been issued for Los Angeles County, and there was a run on groceries and household items. The next day, I met with my management team to lay the groundwork for what would be our virtual HIMS department (vHIMS).
With little time to execute in a complex environment, and very little information, we developed a three-phase plan to address the concurrent, mid-term, and long-term requirements that the organization was...