A long recovery. HIM departments three years after Katrina.

摘要

In a matter of hours, 400,000 medical records were reduced to pulp.Dorothy Jones, RHIT, health information supervisor at Medical Center of Louisiana in New Orleans, thought removing the bottom rows of records in her hospital's basement storage facility would be enough to guard against Hurricane Katrina's punch August 29,2005.She didn't expect a levee break would send water gushing into the basement and up to the first floor ceiling. Every paper record was destroyed.