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Making Standards Work for You: Content Vocabulary for Computer-based Patient Records
Author: Murphy, Gretchen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 1997
Standards mark the progress of and contribute to strategies for achieving computer-based patient records (CPR) in the 1990s. The ASTM E1384 Standard Guide for Content and Structure of the Computer-based Patient Record illustrates this fact. Not only is this standard central to characterizing t....
Making Health Data Elegant
Author: Moschel, Matthew
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
Too often, data analysts make life difficult for themselves. An analyst may produce code that is much longer and more complicated than it needs to be, causing a coworker to re-run code for several hours, not including the execute time. Why? These challenges stem from three root sources of....
Making Data Smart: Practical Informatics is Helping Transform Data into Health Intelligence, and Now Moving into Day-to-day HIM Work
Author: Crawford, Mark
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2014
Health informatics is often considered to be an advanced level of health information management (HIM). It’s also in high demand—in addition to handling, storing, and retrieving health data more HIM professionals are getting involved in the decision-making process regarding what types of i....
Leveraging Visual Controls and Retrospective Analysis to Improve Patient Care
Author: Donofrio, Monica; Wolfinger, Jennifer
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: September 27, 2010
Background
Healthcare reform will require that organizations take advantage of technology to provide safer, more effective care. A natural by-product of the rapid adoption of clinical technology is the vast amount of data it produces. Yet many organizations lack the infrastructure....
Let's Talk About Informatics and HIM
Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2016
On April 19, 2017, the industry will learn the winner of the HeroX CHIME National Patient ID Challenge, aiming to ensure that every patient is identified correctly every time. As a judge of this competition, I’ve found it fascinating to participate in the process.
I ha....
Leadership Through Standards: Policy to Practice
Author: Hanken, Mary Alice; Herbst, Maida Reavis; Murphy, Gretchen
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2001
Understanding the Standards Environment
Standards-Foundation for Health Information Management Practice
The drive to establish standards for health informatics reflects today's commitment to use technology for the benefit of patient care and the recognition that pati....
Knowledge Management: Finding the Golden Nuggets
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2001
We live in the so-called Information Age, but we should actually refer to it as the Data Age. As a nation, we are data rich and information poor.
The dilemma of holding large amounts of valuable data but little useful information is not unique to healthcare. The inability....
Journal Q&A (1/05)
Author: AHIMA Professional Practice Team
Source: AHIMA Q and A
Publication Date: January 02, 2005
Q: What is medical informatics, and is there a connection between it and health information management?
A: Medical informatics is “the collection, classification, storage, retrieval and dissemination of recorded knowledge.”1 It features an “emphasis on technology as an integr....
In Pursuit of Analytics: Best Practices for Healthcare Data Integration
Author: Plummer, Eric
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
One of the fundamental challenges associated with the pursuit of Healthcare Analytics, is the diverse number of applications and source information systems that must be accessed. These systems (EHR/EMR/PM/LAB/RAD/...) were designed to capture all of the relevant information abo....
Information Infrastructure Promises Better Healthcare, Lower Costs
Author: Marchibroda, Janet; Gerber, Ticia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2003
What forces have propelled the need for a national health information infrastructure (NHII) into the spotlight? In the article, take a closer look at the origins of the NHII, the benefits it will yield, and the initiatives providing the strongest support.
The healthcare system in the US h....
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