Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA toolkit

Publication Date: August 24, 2009

Author: AHIMA

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2009

With the emergence of health IT, the rules of health data creation, management, exchange, and use are changing. A need for national standards on both data creation and use is emerging in place of the local, organizational policies that served in a time of more limited data mobility.

I....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2010

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief

Publication Date: December 2010

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Team

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2015

Niall Brennan, director of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics and the first chief data officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), recognizes the pivotal role that data and information should play in transforming healthcare.


Before Brennan took....

Author: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Team

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2015

The ability to securely and accurately match patients with their electronic health records (EHRs) across all health information exchanges (HIEs) remains a serious patient privacy, safety, and quality issue facing the HIM community. As many as eight to 14 percent of all health records incl....

Author: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Team

Source: AHIMA testimony and comments | AHIMA Advocacy and Policy

Publication Date: March 2016

Autumn/Fall 2015 Public Stakeholder Consultation Guidance Questions

Author: AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Team; Gordon, Lynne Thomas

Source: AHIMA testimony and comments

Publication Date: August 15, 2016

Comments to Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Author: AHIMA Clinical Terminology and Classification Practice Council; Garrett, Gail S.; Johnson, Laurine; Johnson, Kathy M

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2006

This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: AHIMA Clinical Terminology and Classification Practice Council; Garrett, Gail S.; Jorwic, Therese M; Novak, Natalie; Ruhnau-Gee, Becky; Safian, Shelly C; Zeisset, Ann M.

Source: AHIMA practice brief

Publication Date: April 2010

Editor’s note: This update replaces the October 2006 practice brief “Key Points of the UB-04.”

In 2005 the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) approved the Uniform Bill (UB-04) paper claim and data set as the replacement to the UB-92 paper form.1 Currently, all paper claims must....