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....

Author: Durkin, Stacie; Just, Beth Haenke

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2008

When it comes to building data exchanges, an understanding of basic IT terminology helps HIM professionals serve as a bridge between technical and clinical professionals.

Clinical data exchange is poised to radically transform healthcare delivery. By connecting disparate he....

Author: Dunn, Rose T

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2007

The new electronic discovery rule requires organizations to calculate the costs associated with disclosing information that may not be readily accessible or, in the language of the rule, “reasonably accessible.” Determining those costs requires a thorough inventory of data stor....

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....

Author: Kallem, Crystal; Gans, David N.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2007

Healthcare organizations struggle to meet the increasing requests for performance measurement data. AHIMA and MGMA offer recommendations to drive much-needed change.



The healthcare industry is striving to improve quality of care and reduce ever-increasing costs of....

Author: Rhodes, Harry B.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2007

As noted in the article “Confusion Continues over HIPAA Minimum Necessary Standards,” (J AHIMA, Nov-Dec 2007) the state-level research under the HISPC project identified a number of privacy and security barriers to health information exchange (HIE). Several reports came from this p....

Author: HITSP Security and Privacy Technical Committee

Source: External - used with permission

Publication Date: October 15, 2007

Author: Reich, Kimberly A. Baldwin-Stried

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2007

The e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and the Uniform Rules Relating to the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information (approved in August 2007 at the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws) are creating new roles and responsibil....

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

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: September 26, 2007

This letter to the Secretary of HHS summarizes the July 2007 NCVHS hearings on the proposed new versions of the HIPAA transaction standards, and makes recommendations.

Author: American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Source: External healthcare industry report

Publication Date: September 12, 2007

a taxonomy of secondary uses and re-uses of healthcare data

Author: Hammond, William Edward; McCourt, Brian

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2007

Early efforts to create health data standards were led primarily by vendors, with support from providers. Vendors were right to take the reins on these standards, as most addressed technical issues related to interfacing best-of-breed systems or transmitting transaction data for reimburse....

Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on HIM in Health Information Exchange

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2007

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

Author: Quinsey, Carol Ann

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2007

Capturing data digitally is one thing. Producing it later is another. Any organization required to produce electronic documentation for any reason—whether for discovery in a legal proceeding or disclosure in support of ongoing patient care—knows that producing 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.

Author: Hagland, Mark

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2007

What if health payers and others adopted agreed-upon standards to enable electronic access to eligibility and benefits data? Wouldn’t that make it easier for providers to verify patient insurance coverage and submit cleaner claims?

That’s the goal behind a nationwide initia....

Author: Dougherty, Michelle; Rhodes, Harry B.; O'Neill, Megan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2007

Paper legal documents have certain characteristics. They are signed in ink and dated, and they often are a specific size and certain quality or weight of paper. Legal business records are even processed and handled in a certain, unique manner.

Now, since the spread of electronic heal....

Author: Dimick, Chris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2007

Changes to federal discovery rules will have lawyers searching for newly discoverable electronic data and HIM professionals digging deeper into their computer systems.
Options had dried up for the 58-year-old man. Previous surgery and radiation therapy had failed to eradicate....

Author: Dougherty, Michelle

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2007

For the past three years, we have been hearing about the development and progress of the Health Level Seven (HL7) electronic health record (EHR) system functional model. As it went through various drafts, HL7’s EHR technical committee gathered feedback from a broad group of stakeholders throug....

Author: Metzger, Jane; Welebob, Emily; Del Beccaro, Mark; Spurr, Cindy

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2007

Certification of inpatient EHR products begins this year with an initial focus on orders and medication management.
Increasing the adoption of health IT such as electronic health records (EHRs) has been a major focus of improving healthcare quality and efficiency ever since the Inst....

Author: Wilson, Patricia S

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: March 2007

Author: Canada Health Infoway

Source: External web site

Publication Date: March 28, 2007

Author: AHIMA; MGMA Center for Research; Foundation of Research and Education (FORE)

Source: AHIMA Foundation

Publication Date: February 27, 2007

Author: Health Level Seven. EHR Interoperability Workgroup

Source: External healthcare industry report

Publication Date: February 07, 2007

Part of the HL7 2007 EHR Interoperability Model DSTU, this report outlines technical, semantic, and process interoperability. Also available from the HL7 web site here.

Author: Campbell, Keith E.; Giannangelo, Kathy

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2007

Health IT is bogged down in a quagmire of unaligned classification and terminology systems. New recommendations from AHIMA and AMIA help point to the way out.

The healthcare industry is looking to IT to reduce costs, assess quality of care, and deliver services more effici....

Author: McLendon, Kelly

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2007

Ensuring that electronic health records are sound business records is key to EHR development, implementation, and use. The mere specter of legal ramifications concerning EHRs should get everyone to take notice of this important issue.

Health information managers should use....