Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2011

Data stewardship is a hot topic. As this issue went to press, the Department of Health and Human Services was expected to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking on accounting of disclosures, an expansion of the HIPAA requirements mandated by the HITECH Act.

Rulemaking was also expe....

Author: Stine, Kevin; Dang, Quynh

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2011

Healthcare and health IT professionals are entrusted with protecting the privacy and confidentiality of patient data. To provide this protection, these professionals frequently look to commonly accepted technologies and methodologies to safeguard the data while at rest and in transit. One tech....

Author: Connecting for Health

Source: External - used with permission

Publication Date: June 25, 2008

This document is part of The Connecting for Health Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information, which is available in full and in its most current version here.

Author: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: December 19, 2007

Author: Wang, Tiankai; Biedermann, Sue E.

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: October 2012

Abstract

Medication errors may result in serious safety issues for patients. Medication error issues are more prevalent among elderly patients, who take more medications and have prescriptions that change frequently. The challenge of obtaining accurate medication histories for the elderly....

Author: Spencer, Gregory

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2010

Healthcare organizations, just like individuals, can suffer from information overload. Increasingly tasked with linking quality data to reimbursement parameters, providers now attempt to capture every piece of possible data.

The problem is that data collection has a price tag. Someti....

Author: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: April 24, 2008

Author: AHIMA HIE Practice Council

Source: AHIMA report

Publication Date: July 09, 2012

Author: Dooling, Julie A; Downing, Katherine

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2014

Positively identifying patients in myriad healthcare registration systems is no easy task. The process of capturing patient demographics and the structure behind data fields varies depending upon the technology, care setting, and organization’s preferences. Until standardized and uniform....

Author: Claybrook, Deresa

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2007

The story made national headlines: a VA employee who worked from home had his house broken into, and a burglar stole a laptop with valuable identifying information on it. The story got a lot of publicity because of the privacy and security concerns that we all have about our personal info....