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Accessing and Using Data from Wearable Fitness Devices
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2014
A rapidly aging global population in many industrialized countries accompanied by an increase in chronic diseases and the high cost of managing such diseases has led many to turn to a technological solution to ease the burden on healthcare professionals and provide useful tools to the elde....
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....
Advancing Data Standards: A Prerequisite for the Full Value of Health IT
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2009
The integrity of clinical and administrative data is a core concern in managing health information—data must be accurate, complete, useable, and available where and when needed. However, we are a long way from knowing how to achieve all of these dimensions in electronic health records, h....
AHIMA Helping Set the Standards for Health IT
Author: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Team
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2014
Standards development for health IT and healthcare has become an increasingly important part of AHIMA’s work over the last several years. Now, through the association’s recent work with both national and international standards groups, AHIMA staff and members are playing a deciding role i....
AHIMA Letter to Secretary Sebelius and Attorney General Holder Concerning EM Coding in EHRs
Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: September 26, 2012
AHIMA Standards Fact Sheet. Standards and Systems Interoperability: Definitions
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: 2017
AHIMA Standards Fact Sheet. Standards Category: Data Standards
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: 2017
AHIMA Standards Fact Sheet. Standards Category: Functional Standards
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: 2017
AHIMA Standards Fact Sheet. Standards Category: Identifiers Standards
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: 2017
AHIMA Standards Fact Sheet. Standards Category: Information Content Standards
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: 2017
AHIMA Standards Fact Sheet. Standards Category: Information Exchange Standards
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: 2017
AHIMA Standards Fact Sheet. Standards Category: Privacy and Security Standards
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: 2017
ANA Recognized Standardizations
Author: American Nurses Association. Committee for Nursing Practice Information Infrastructure (CNPII)
Source: External web site
Publication Date: April 11, 2003
Assessment Across the Ages: Implications for the Electronic Health Record
Author: Garvin, Jennifer Hornung
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
Patients across the globe are using traditional and Western (allopathic) medicine to improve health. At the same time, the records of patients are being modified from paper-based documentation to an electronic format. This technical paper places some of the major medical tra....
Baby Steps: Industry Helps Data Content Standards Find Their Footing
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2007
An improved healthcare system depends not only on wiring it up but also ensuring that data are usable for evidence-based clinical practice, to empower consumers, and to improve the health of the population. Progress is being made on data transmission standards; however, similar progress is need....
Basic Guide to Standards
Author: National Council for Prescription Drug Programs
Source: External web site
Publication Date: August 02, 2003
Blue Button Project: Engaging Patients in Healthcare by a Click of a Button
Author: Mohsen, Mona Omar ; Aziz, Hassan A
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: April 2015
Abstract
The Blue Button project has become a way for many Americans to download their health records by just a click in any way that suits them, such as in print, on a thumb drive, or on their mobile devices and smartphones. Several organizations have developed and applied Blue B....
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....
CCR Mapped to HL7: an Initial Draft from Preliminary Elements
Author:
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: September 2004
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
CCR--Not an EHR
Author: Quinsey, Carol Ann
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2005
In 2003 the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) kicked off the development of the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) standard, which was finalized in that year and passed by ASTM in April 2004. Sponsorship of the CCR brought together ASTM International, the Massachusetts Medical....
CEN/TC 251: European Standardization of Health Informatics
Author: CEN/TC 251
Source: External web site
Publication Date: January 02, 2004
Checking the Numbers: Public Reporting of Quality Measures Puts Nursing Homes, HIM Professionals in Spotlight
Author: Slomski, Anita J.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2003
Nursing homes have long been aware of how they stack up to other facilities in terms of clinical quality. Now, with Nursing Home Compare, the public is aware, too. Heres how HIM professionals play a part in getting these data right.
Two years ago, if I had told our CQI team I wante....
Clinical Terminology and Clinical Classification Systems: A Critique Using AHIMA’s Data Quality Management Model
Author: Alakrawi, Zahraa M
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: July 2016
Abstract
Clinical coding constitutes one of the fundamental functions in the field of health information management. Clinical classification systems and clinical terminologies represent two distinct sets of coding schemes that are used in healthcare. In this context, it is critica....
Clinical Vocabularies: Essential to the Future of Health Information Management
Author: Fenton, Susan H.
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
The field of clinical vocabularies is incredibly dynamic. In this paper you will find topics and research from the past that support the principle of a clinical vocabulary as essential. The presentation at the conference will include the latest information regarding the avai....
Coming to Terms with Metadata: A Data Governance Initiative
Author: Stambaugh, Robyn
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: August 17, 2017
In the era before computers and search engines, libraries would use the card catalog—a paper database ordered by the Dewey Decimal System—to find a book or information. The Dewey Decimal System, a hierarchical scheme, is the means with which to identify, classify, and retrieve....
Comments to NCVHS on HIPAA Electronic Claims Attachments
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: January 26, 2004
January 26, 2004
Simon Cohn, MD, MPH, FACP
Chairman, NCVHS Subcommittee on Standards and Security, and
National Director for Health Information Policy
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
One Kaiser Plaza
Oakland, California 94612
Re: HIPAA Att....
Communication in Clinical Care: the Role of HL7
Author: Jones, Tom
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 21, 2005
Introduction: Interoperability and Communication
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to provide leadership for the development and nationwide implementation of an interoperable health information technology infra....
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....
Connect the Dots: Linking Together the Nation’s Disparate and Growing Health Information Exchanges has become a Formidable Challenge
Author: Romeo, Jim
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2013
Establishing a health information exchange (HIE) and building an infrastructure to support it internally and externally is a daunting task. Whether funded by federal and state grants or launched as a private sector initiative, launching a HIE often means blazing new territory and making de....
Coordination of SNOMED-CT and ICD-10: Getting the Most out of Electronic Health Record Systems
Author: Bowman, Sue E
Source: AHIMA report | Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: May 2005
Executive Summary
A standard electronic health record (EHR) and interoperable national health information infrastructure require the use of uniform health information standards, including a common medical language. Data must be collected and maintained in a standardized format, u....
Core Data Sets for the Physician Practice Electronic Health Record
Author: AHIMA Task Force
Source: AHIMA Task Force
Publication Date: October 20, 2003
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Core Health Data Elements: Report of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
Author: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
Source: External web site
Publication Date: August 02, 1996
Data Content for EHR Documentation
Author: Kallem, Crystal; Burrington-Brown, Jill; Dinh, Angela K.
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2007
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Data Content Standards: Part and Parcel of Data Integrity Management
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA Advantage
Publication Date: March 2008
Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems (DEEDS)
Author: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Publication Date: January 02, 1997
Data Standard Time: Data Content Standardization and the HIM Role
Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on EHR Data Content
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2006
To efficiently and accurately share clinical information, EHRs must be interoperable—the IT systems and software applications used by various facilities and made by different vendors must be able to communicate so that usable data can be exchanged accurately, effectively, and consistentl....
Developing Emergency Access Standards for EHR Systems: The HL7 Standards Development Process Helps (and Empowers) HIM Processes
Author: Gelzer, Reed D.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2008
Many activities are under way to standardize electronic health records (EHR) systems. Among them are Health Level Seven’s technical committees and special interest groups.
HL7 is an international standards development organization accredited by the American National Standards I....
DICOM: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
Author:
Source: External web site
Publication Date: January 01, 2004
Driving Standards Toward Interoperability with PHR Functionality
Author: Osborne, Kim
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2014
Healthcare is poised to experience true interoperability when it can exchange personal health information via electronic health record (EHR) systems, insurance claims systems, and other health information exchanges with personal health records (PHRs). A comprehensive PHR will help individ....
E-HIM Strategic Initiative: Core Data Sets
Author: AHIMA Work Group on Core Data Sets as Standards for the Electronic Health Record
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2004
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
E-HIM Strategic Initiative: Core Data Sets. Appendix 1: Core Data Sets as Standards for the EHR, Part 2: Healthcare Standards Organizations
Author: AHIMA Work Group on Core Data Sets as Standards for the Electronic Health Record
Source: AHIMA web extra
Publication Date: September 02, 2004
This practice brief appendix has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
E-HIM Strategic Initiative: Core Data Sets. Appendix 1: Core Data Sets as Standards for the EHR (pt.1)
Author: AHIMA Work Group on Core Data Sets as Standards for the Electronic Health Record
Source: AHIMA web extra
Publication Date: September 02, 2004
This practice brief appendix has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
EHR Development Steps in Long-term Care
Author: Dougherty, Michelle
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2005
In the past year there has been a whirlwind of activity around the electronic health record (EHR). Hospitals and physician offices are in the forefront of planning for EHR development at the national level. However, long-term care (LTC) is often mentioned as the third area of priority. This ar....
Enabling EHR Use in Clinical Research
Author: Seidl, Patricia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2010
Health information collected in electronic health records (EHRs) can support a variety of initiatives, including clinical research. However, technical standards are needed to enable EHRs to communicate with clinical research applications.
Work from the American National Standards In....
Four Applications of C-CDA to Consider: The Case for Why C-CDA is Needed to Advance Shared Savings and Interoperability
Author: Bonney, Steven
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2015
In an ideal world, the following scenario wouldn’t be uncommon: You’re attending a conference in another state and suddenly find yourself experiencing shortness of breath and chest pain. After having flown for several hours on a plane, you worry that it could be a blood clot. Y....
Future of a Nationwide Health Information Network: An Explanation of the Minnesota NwHIN Direct Pilot and Implications For Improved Healthcare Delivery
Author: Briggs, Mark
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
An initiative developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Direct Project was designed to help healthcare providers, departments of health, and payers nationwide communicate sec....
Getting Better Data from the MDS: Improving Diagnostic Data Reporting in Long-term Care Facilities
Author: Dougherty, Michelle; Mitchell, Sue
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2004
Reporting diagnoses consistently can be a challenge in nursing homes. Analysis of the MDS by AHIMA suggests future improvements, but there are also ways to improve reporting today.
Consider the following scenario: a patient in a long-term care facility has many diagnoses, including one fo....
Getting to Know e-HIM Coding Systems: Settings and Disciplines Offer Myriad of Documentation Systems for EHR Use
Author: Scichilone, Rita A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2008
Electronic health record (EHR) systems require encoded data to function, even if the “codes” captured are the words on this page or ASCII text on a computer screen. Today healthcare professionals of all disciplines work with electronic tools. Patient care systems have evolved just....
Guidelines for Developing a Data Dictionary
Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on EHR Data Content
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2006
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Healthcare Standards Development: The Value of Nurturing Collaboration
Author: Hammond, William Edward; Jaffe, Charles; Kush, Rebecca Daniels
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2009
Two standards developing organizations—CDISC and HL7—demonstrate that collaboration, while challenging, delivers benefits to standards developers, end users, and ultimately patients.
Technical standards are essential to improving healthcare. For health IT to reduce medic....
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