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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....