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AHIMA Standards Fact Sheet. Standards and Systems Interoperability: Definitions
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: 2017
Simple API: Will it solve healthcare’s interoperability problems?
Author: Bryson, Casey
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: May 22, 2017
You can’t throw a rock in healthcare today without hitting someone claiming to solve “the problem of interoperability.” Those claims come from interface engines, private or public collaboratives like the Sequoia Project and Commonwell, government entities like the Office of the Nation....
21st Century Cures Act and Information Governance
Author: Rockendorf, Betty
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: February 09, 2017
Regarded as a landmark bill, the 21st Century Cures Act was passed into law in December of 2016. It’s aims are lofty and it covers a lot of ground, including transparency, breaking down silos in healthcare, interoperability, and an electronic health record (EHR) reporting program, as....
New ONC Chief Touts Importance of Standards Development Work
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2016
The new National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Vindell Washington, MD, plans to focus on some old issues for the healthcare industry—a lack of universal standards, limited interoperability, and the difficulty present for both providers and consumers trying to exchange and access hea....
Standardizing Interoperability is a Team Effort
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2016
AHIMA and other key stakeholders continue to drive national and global progress to achieve information systems interoperability in healthcare.
Like a complex puzzle, health information data and system interoperability takes time, effort, and collaboration to solve. And solvin....
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....
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....
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....
Taking Up the Interoperability Mantle
Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2016
In May the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released a Data Brief describing the state of interoperability among non-federal acute care hospitals in 2015.1 The report looks specifically at four “domains” of interoperability: the ability for health systems....
Making the Call for Patient Experience: Using Health IT to Address Gaps in Patient Data-Sharing, Communication, and Interoperability
Author: Labow, Kim
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2016
Interoperability and integration within the health IT landscape remain high priorities for providers, patients, and technology firms. Interoperability in health IT holds the promise of more satisfied patients, providers, and health information management (HIM) professionals. But approachi....
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