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....

Author: DeLoss, Gerald E.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2010

In a typical legal action, judges have a different perspective on the production of electronically stored information (ESI) than do HIM professionals. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, case law, and past experiences with discovery disputes play an important role in how judges view e-discov....

Author: Davoudi, Sion; Flanigan, Jill; Houser, Shannon H.; Kadlec, Lesley; Kirby, Annessa; VanSlyke, Daniel; Wendicke, Annemarie

Source: AHIMA practice brief

Publication Date: December 2016

This update supplants the 2012 practice brief “Managing a Data Dictionary.”


As healthcare organizations move to the electronic environment, the large volume and complexity of data collected is growing at unprecedented rates. While access to data has the potential to en....

Author: Davoudi, Sion; Dooling, Julie A; Glondys, Barbara; Jones, Theresa D.; Kadlec, Lesley; Overgaard, Shauna M; Ruben, Kerry; Wendicke, Annemarie

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2015

Editor’s Note: This Practice Brief supersedes the July 2012 “Data Quality Management Model (Updated),” the March 1998 “Checklist to Assess Data Quality Management Efforts,” and the June 1998 “Data Quality Management Model” Practice Briefs.

Author: Datskovsky, Galina; Hedges, Ron; Empel, Sofia; Washington, Lydia

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2015

Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a series of four articles that discuss the eight Information Governance Principles for Healthcare™.


AHIMA’s Information Governance Principles for Healthcare™ (IGPHC) provide a framework for healthcare organizations to enhance....

Author: Datskovsky, Galina; Hedges, Ron; Empel, Sofia; Washington, Lydia

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2015

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of four articles that discuss the eight Information Governance Principles for Healthcare.


AHIMA’s new Information Governance Principles for Healthcare (IGPHC) provides a framework for healthcare organizations to enhance their ab....

Author: Datskovsky, Galina; Hedges, Ron; Empel, Sofia; Washington, Lydia

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2015

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of four articles that discuss the eight Information Governance Principles for Healthcare.


AHIMA’s new Information Governance Principles for Healthcare (IGPHC) provide a framework for healthcare organizations to leverage informati....

Author: Datskovsky, Galina; Hedges, Ron; Empel, Sofia

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2015

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of four articles that will discuss the eight Information Governance Principles for Healthcare.


AHIMA’s newly introduced Information Governance Principles for Healthcare (IGPHC) provides a framework for healthcare organizations to....

Author: Dalander, Geoffrey; Willner, Sue; Brasch, Sam

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 1997

Imagine: It has been a productive day. Although it is only Wednesday, you have accomplished all the items on your weekly to-do list. All the hospital and SNF records are coded and analyzed. The discharges from this past Monday have been billed. Ongoing audits of the medical records are now com....

Author: Czarkowski, Lynette; Clark, Jill S

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2015

Information governance (IG) is evolving as a necessity in healthcare as institutions expand their footprint and partnerships to meet “meaningful use” and earn EHR Incentive Program payments, participate in accountable care organizations, and tackle other industry challenges suc....

Author: Crabb, Stephanie

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: January 14, 2016

How are football and IG related? Anyone who knows me knows that I am a sports fanatic and football is my favorite professional team sport. So, as we stand on the precipice of the playoff season, I have football on my mind. With IG ALWAYS on my mind, I found myself thinking about how to ans....

Author: Cook, Jane; Foley, Margaret M.; Giannangelo, Kathy; Paterno, Marilyn D.; Scichilone, Rita A; Schwarz, Kathleen M.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2009

Standardized clinical terminologies are critical connectors that allow systems to exchange health information.

In the winter of 1904 a major fire broke out in Baltimore, MD. The resulting damage—an entire swath of the downtown destroyed—was blamed largely on a lack of uni....

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: Coleman, Johnathan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2014

Sensitive health information is not a rarity in the United States by any means, according to a recent Issue Brief published by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).1 In the brief, ONC estimated 26 percent of Americans age 18 and older are living with a mental health d....

Author: Chou, Edgar; Montroy, Tami

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2017

In most healthcare settings, health information management (HIM) initiatives are led by HIM professionals with collaboration from other organizational leaders. At Drexel University College of Medicine, it is no different. Representatives with expertise in risk management, privacy, complian....

Author: CEN/TC 251

Source: External web site

Publication Date: January 02, 2004

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....

Author: Carey, Susan; Beahan, Sally

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2016

Historically, health information management (HIM) staff has provided paper copies of medical records in response to authorized requests. No specialty patient education was needed because the paper record was essentially self-explanatory.


But with the ongoing industry trans....

Author: Canadian Institute for Health Information. Partnership for Health Information Standards

Source: External web site

Publication Date: January 01, 2004

Author: Canada Health Infoway

Source: External web site

Publication Date: March 28, 2007

Author: Campbell, Susan E

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2016

Information for general health information managers about the standards development framework and process—with a focus on mobile health For Patient and Self Care

Author: Campbell, Robert James

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2014

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2010, 35 million patients were discharged from non-federal short-stay hospitals in America.1 Vitally important not only to those discharges—but to every discharge that takes place—is whether important information about the pa....

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: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2015

Human beings have been fascinated by birds—their flight patterns, colors, and songs—for centuries. In the ancient world, “augurs,” Roman practitioners of “augury,” looked for clues about the past and future by observing birds in flight, hoping for omens.....

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2013

In a hurry to deliver two dozen artisanal doughnuts to your office one Monday morning, the bicycle delivery man takes a spill in rush hour traffic. One dozen glazed pastries tumble out of the bakery box onto the sidewalk, collecting some dirt but still looking edible (five second rule!). T....