37 results.
As Medical Apps Increase, Litigation Issues Continue
Author: Hedges, Ron
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: September 20, 2016
In my last post of 2015 I tried to predict what types of challenges health information management (HIM) professionals might have to deal with in 2016 and beyond. One prediction involved technological innovation, as I surmised that we could “expect to see more and more ‘apps’ being off....
Importance of Data Stewards in Information Governance
Author: Downing, Kathy
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: May 26, 2016
Data governance (DG) is the sub-domain of information governance (IG) that provides for the design and execution of data needs planning and data quality assurance in concert with the strategic information needs of the organization. Data governance includes data modeling, data mapping, data....
Comments on Medicare Program: Expanding Uses of Medicare Data by Qualified Entities
Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: March 2016
Comment letter to Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Including Patient-Generated Health Data in Electronic Health Records
Author: AHIMA Work Group
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2015
Healthcare providers and health information technology (HIT) suppliers across the country have been busy preparing for what could be one of the most significant proposals for stage 3 of the “meaningful use” EHR Incentive Program—a proposal that has wide implications for health....
Take a "Deep Dive" into Information Stewardship
Author: Kennedy, Angela
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2014
Health Informatics and information management professionals have traditionally been focused on areas such as risk management, quality assurance, licensure, accreditation, privacy, and security requirements for their organizations. But compliance—conformance or obedience to procedures, rul....
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....
Information Governance’s Privacy and Security Component
Author: Rose, Angela Dinh
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2013
In the most simple terms, information governance is the accountability framework and decision rights employed by an organization to ensure effective and efficient use of information across the enterprise. Ideally, this also achieves enterprise information management (EIM), which is the inf....
Leading Innovation in Enterprise Information Governance
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2013
The past two decades have seen tremendous change in health information management (HIM) practice. The underlying drivers of this transformation are the complexity of healthcare delivery, the exploding demand for actionable information, pressure for greater public accountability, and the ev....
Adapting Enterprise Workflow for ICD-10-CM/PCS
Author: Clark, Jill S
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2013
During her speech at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said the healthcare industry should proceed full steam ahead on preparing to implement ICD-10-CM/PCS. The message conveyed is that CMS is 100 p....
Getting Serious About Information Governance
Author: Reno, Danielle; Kersten, Sandra K.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2013
Information governance is becoming a priority for healthcare organizations. Today's healthcare organizations invest in information technology at unprecedented rates, and IT generates more data than ever before. Stakeholders expect healthcare organizations to use health IT to bring improvem....
The Privacy and Security of Occupational Health Records
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2013
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) defines an “occupational medical record” as an occupation-related, chronological, cumulative record, regardless of the form or process by which it is maintained (i.e., paper document, microfiche, microfilm, or automatic data processing me....
Bringing Information Governance to the Healthcare Realm
Author: Zender, Anne
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: November 2012
Today, healthcare organizations are investing in information technology (IT) at unprecedented rates. And IT is generating more data-of all kinds-than ever before. What’s needed now, says Linda Kloss, RHIA, FAHIMA, is for healthcare organizations to invest in ways to manage, control, and under....
Governing Healthcare’s Most Valuable Asset—Data
Author: Reeves, Mary G; Bowen, Rita K.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2012
Many individuals have a high degree of confidence in the validity and integrity of data if it comes from a computer. When they encounter data in this form, the assumption is the data has been vetted, scrubbed, and signed off by a reliable source. In truth, however, this is rarely the case.
Data Ownership Evolves with Technology
Author: Demster, Barbara
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
Technology has transformed the world of health information management (HIM), bringing about change for many of the field’s longstanding professional concepts and work methods. The classic rule of ownership in the words-on-paper era of health records was that “the paper (physical medium) belong....
HIM Functions in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Appendix B: HIM’s Role in Data Governance
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment
Publication Date: August 2011
A solid foundation is key to any organization's structure. The same is true for HIM. Information stewardship and data governance practices provide cohesive policies, processes, and decision rights and responsibilities for effective health information management and maintenance.1
The....
Data Governance—HIM’s Sweet Spot
Author: Cassidy, Bonnie S.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2011
HIM's primary ethical obligation is to protect patient privacy and confidential information, which includes oversight of information disclosure; health information systems and health records; and the quality of information. Both paper and electronic health records contain personal and private....
Enabling Patient Access: Data Stewardship Involves More Than Data Use and Disclosure
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....
From Custodian to Steward: Evolving Roles in the E-HIM Transition
Author: Washington, Lydia
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2010
For decades, HIM professionals have been called upon in court cases to enter the medical record into evidence under the business records exception to the hearsay rule. This typically required the “custodian” or keeper of the physical record to testify under oath that the records were made in t....
Health Data Stewardship: What, Why, Who, How. An NCVHS Primer
Author:
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: September 15, 2009
HealthDataRights.org
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Source: External web site
Publication Date: June 23, 2009
Consistent and Uniform Approach to Health Data and Its Use: AHIMA’s Statement on Data Stewardship
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....
Data Governance and Data Stewardship: Critical Issues in the Move toward EHRs and HIE
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2009
More than ever, organizations require a coherent plan for what data they will use and how they will ensure their data are fit for use.
Talk of data governance and data stewardship is cropping up more frequently with the acceleration toward electronic health records (EHRs) and h....
Data Stewardship: Global Recommendations for Local Action
Author: Kallem, Crystal
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2008
Healthcare’s expanded use of technology and increasing ability to disperse information with the push of a button requires that organizations pay special attention to data stewardship at the local level. HIM professionals influence how data are managed and dispersed, and thus they have a....
NHIN Show and Tell
Author: Rollins, Gina
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2008
Contractors in the NHIN trial implementations are working toward a demonstration of a “network of networks” this fall. Along the way they are generating specifications and refining issues.
In October 2007 the Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator f....
Enhancing Protections for Uses of Health Data: a Stewardship Framework. Summary for Policy Makers
Author: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: April 24, 2008
Examining Data Rights in Vendor Contracts: Privacy Obligations Extend to the Terms Negotiated in External Contracts
Author: Cassidy, Bonnie S.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2008
Preparing for HIPAA implementation created a new level of excitement and focus on privacy and confidentiality as healthcare organizations developed appropriate compliance programs. New positions and roles for security and privacy officers were created; new enterprise privacy and security educa....
Clinical Data Exchange Model: Matching HIE Goals with IT Foundations
Author: Just, Beth Haenke; Durkin, Stacie
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2008
Which IT architecture is best for an HIE? It depends on what the participants want to accomplish. Matching goals with clinical data exchange models is essential to success.
One of many fateful decisions a local or regional health data exchange network makes is the core technical foun....
Enhanced Protections for Uses of Health Data: a Stewardship Framework for ‘Secondary Uses’ of Electronically Collected and Transmitted Health Data
Author: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: December 19, 2007
Health Data's Second Life
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2007
The use of health data for secondary purposes has been increasing, and federal agencies and industry organizations are exploring the need for more guidance.
Data in a health record don’t rest when care is complete and a bill is drawn up. Once treatment and reimbursement ar....
White Paper on Information Governance of the Interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Author: Canada Health Infoway
Source: External web site
Publication Date: March 28, 2007
Getting Information Rights Right: Identifying the Rights-related Issues in Health Information Exchange
Author: Waller, Adele A.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2006
To protect the information rights of both individuals and organizations, RHIOs must identify and address the issues from the outset.
The exchange of health information among disparate organizations raises significant issues concerning the rights and responsibilities of all pa....
Privacy and Security Challenges in HIEs: Unique Factors Add New Complexities to Familiar Issues
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2006
On a recent trip out of town, I had a very enlightening conversation with a cab driver on the way to the airport. Even though it was early in the morning, the driver was extremely talkative and initiated a conversation about what I did for a living. This immediately led to direct questions rega....
Contracting for ASP Services: When Signing on for the Benefits, Remember to Manage the Risks
Author: Dolan, Thomas G.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2006
By sweating the IT, ASPs offer providers an easier way to go digital. But providers should ensure they can get their data back when and how they want.
Say you've outsourced mission-critical applications to an application service provider (ASP). Everything goes well, but then something hap....
Medical record ownership definitions (historical)
Author: Huffman, Edna K; Abdelhak, Mervat N.; LaTour, Kathleen M.
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: 2006
Excerpts from textbooks from 1990 to 2006
Information Governance: a Framework for Handling Personal Information
Author: Nicholson, Lorraine
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Presentation Overview
This presentation will introduce the audience to the English National Health Service Information Authority's Information Governance Framework, which aims to: "...support the delivery of high quality care by promoting the effective and appropriate use of information."....
Journal Q&A (1/01)
Author: AHIMA Staff
Source: AHIMA Q and A
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Q: Can a healthcare facility release health information for marketing purposes?
A: There is a growing demand for and supply of health information for uses that are far removed from patient care or the payment process. It is imperative for a facility to establish a system of controls for id....
Ownership of Health Information in the Information Age
Author: Waller, Adele A.; Alcantara, Oscar L.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 1998
The question "Who owns health information?" has no simple answer. The authors examine problems related to traditional ownership in the age of aggregated information and offer suggestions as to how some of these issues can be clarified and resolved. A sidebar examines the ....