23 results.
Connecting Functional and Semantic Interoperability—The HIM Professional's Role in HIT Standardization
Author: Orlova, Anna; Warner, Diana; Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2016
The health information management (HIM) professional has a large role to play in ensuring health IT standardization and the health IT interoperability that comes from those standardization efforts.
The Practice Brief “Standardizing Data and HIM Practices for Interopera....
AHIMA Leading and Influencing International Standards for HIM Practices
Author: Orlova, Anna; Warner, Diana; Reyes, Sheryl
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2017
AHIMA has been leading the development of international standards for health information management (HIM) practices at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)—the world’s largest developer of international standards.
In the AHIMA comments on the....
ONC Takes Action: Health Information Systems Interoperablity to Support Learning Health System
Author: Orlova, Anna; Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: February 2015
In the effort to advance secure and interoperable health information exchanges, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Intero....
New AHIMA Standard for Patient Registration: Aligning HIM Practices with Health IT
Author: Orlova, Anna; Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2018
By Anna Orlova, PhD, and Diana Warner, MS, RHIA, CHPS, FAHIMA
PATIENT MATCHING CONTINUES to be a challenge for successful interoperability, with incorrect patient matching also growing in cost. Patient matching relies on proper registration of a patient by the healthcare facility.1 Tod....
Supporting Health IT Standardization Across the Globe
Author: Orlova, Anna; Spellman, Lisa; Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2014
AHIMA’s core strategy is to drive the power of knowledge where and when it’s needed. The development and use of sound standards are a key component of that vision. AHIMA has long provided leadership for its members and other healthcare stakeholders by developing and implementing health in....
Understanding Information in EHR Systems: Paving the Road for Semantic Interoperability through Standards
Author: Orlova, Anna; Salyards, Kenneth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2016
Today, both clinicians and health information management (HIM) professionals have been experiencing overwhelming challenges with the usability of electronic health record (EHR) systems due to shortcomings in supporting user needs.1,2,3,4 A five-year study recently published by the US Nati....
HIT Standards for HIM Practices in an Interoperable World
Author: Orlova, Anna; Rhodes, Harry B.; Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2016
At the 2015 AHIMA Convention and Exhibit, members of AHIMA’s Standards Task Force reported on a ground-breaking white paper they developed called “Health IT Standards for Health Information Management Practices,” a first-of-its-kind white paper that serves as a guide for....
Standardizing Data and HIM Practices for Interoperability
Author: Orlova, Anna; Rhodes, Harry B.; Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA | AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: November 2016
Despite the many advancements in health information technology (HIT) that the industry has seen in recent years, the interoperability of HIT applications continues to present a challenge. Implementing standards—a definition, set of rules or guidelines, example format, or other document th....
Informatics Education for HIM Professionals in the Era of Interoperable Standards-Based HIEs
Author: Orlova, Anna; Lehmann, Harold
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2015
Electronic sharing of health information, both within and between organizational boundaries, requires the adoption of interoperable health information technology (HIT) solutions such as electronic health record (EHR) systems, laboratory information management systems (LIMS), radiology and....
Understanding User Needs for Interoperability: Standards for Business Cases in eHealth
Author: Orlova, Anna; Bourquard, Karima; Parisot, Charles
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2017
AHIMA, in collaboration with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International, has been publishing the findings of the Use Case Task Force in a series of articles in the Journal of AHIMA’s Standards Strategies section. The first article in this series published in the Journa....
Understanding User Needs for Interoperability: Standards for Use Cases in eHealth
Author: Orlova, Anna; Bourquard, Karima; Parisot, Charles
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2017
AHIMA, in collaboration with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International, has been publishing the findings of the Use Case Task Force in a series of articles in the Journal of AHIMA’s Standards Strategies section. The first article in this series, published in the June....
Standardization of Standards
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2015
In 1898 Yale University graduate Charles Dudley, PhD, looked for a solution to the seemingly intractable problem of building a consensus on standards for industrial materials used on the Pennsylvania Railroad. To sooth the antagonistic attitudes that marred relationships between the Penns....
Achieving Health Information Systems Interoperability
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2015
With the growing adoption of health information technology (HIT), interoperability—or the sharing of data between systems—has become a topic that everybody in healthcare is talking about. Interoperability impacts every stakeholder in healthcare with each individual party involv....
Informatics and HIM: Enabling Semantic Interoperability and the Learning Health System
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2015
Medical informatics is a field formalized in the 1990s with the rise of the adoption of information technology in healthcare including electronic health records systems (EHRs), laboratory information management systems (LIMS), radiology systems, and other health information technology (HIT....
AHIMA Convention Highlights Groundbreaking Standards Work
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2017
The AHIMA Standards Task Force is a collaborative of over 60 health information management (HIM) professional subject matter experts (SMEs)—all working together to lead national and global standards development for HIM. This groundbreaking work was on full display during last month’s 89th....
Overview of Health IT Standards
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2015
Health IT Standardization is the process of agreeing on standards that allow electronic exchange of data, information, and knowledge between disparate data systems. The goals of standardization are to achieve comparability, compatibility, and interoperability between independent systems; t....
Addressing Data, Information, and Record Quality Challenges Through Standards
Author: Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
Data quality management has always been an area of focus for AHIMA. But the need for quality and integrity of data and information is greater than ever in all healthcare settings—especially with the growing adoption of health information technology (HIT), including electronic health....
Standards, Information Governance, Informatics: Essential Components of HIM Workforce Education
Author: Grzybowski, Darice; Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2017
As the healthcare industry has evolved from paper to the digital environment, topics such as information governance, informatics, and standards—which are at the forefront of healthcare—are becoming critical subjects when educating health information management (HIM) professiona....
Building Interoperability Standards and Ensuring Patient Safety
Author: Glickman, Michael; Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2015
Anyone who has ever developed a standard knows well the many challenges that must be surmounted. Once a standard is published, however, it’s not the end but in many respects only the beginning. Moving standards from specification to practice requires an equivalent if not greater effo....
CDI Expanding Beyond the Hospital Walls through Standards
Author: Ewoterai, Okemena; Lusk, Katherine; Orlova, Anna; Young, Donna
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2017
The proverbial comparison of “apples and oranges” is a well-known metaphor in casual conversation and discussion. When talking about expanding clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs in today’s environment of electronic health records (EHRs) and information governanc....
Understanding User Needs for Interoperability: Collaborative Approach
Author: Bourquard, Karima; Orlova, Anna; Parisot, Charles
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2017
AHIMA in collaboration with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International has been publishing the findings of the Use Case Task Force in a series of articles in the Journal of AHIMA’s Standards Strategies section. The first article in this series, published in the June 20....
Understanding User Needs for Interoperability: Defining Use Cases in eHealth
Author: Bourquard, Karima; Orlova, Anna; Parisot, Charles
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2017
In computer science, a use case-driven approach is the foundational methodology for documenting user needs.1 This has been adopted by national and international efforts to enable health information technology (HIT) to support HIT systems interoperability and information sharing across syst....
Guiding the Development of Health Information Technology Standards for HIM Practices
Author: Bailey-Woods, Linda; Munns, Megan; Orlova, Anna; Rhodes, Harry B.; Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2015
Interoperability of health information systems will enable clinicians to communicate with their patients and each other using information and communication technology to enable safer, effective, and efficient care, and improve population health. Health information technology (HIT) standard....