Managing a Data Dictionary 
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
1/2/12
This practice brief describes common data inconsistencies found within healthcare organizations' systems, defines the data dictionary and its associated data management challenges, and outlines the HIM role in maintaining data integrity.
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Managing Nontext Media in Healthcare Practices
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
11/2/11
This practice brief defines a variety of nontext data types found in healthcare practices today and outlines the operational challenges of managing this data.
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Problem List Guidance in the EHR
AHIMA Workgroup
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
9/2/11
This practice brief reviews applicable standards for problem list content, examines the role of the problem list in the EHR, and provides guidance on managing problem lists.
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HIE Management and Operational Considerations
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
5/2/11
This practice brief identifies the policies, procedures, and best practices essential for successful HIE management and operations, and serves as a resource and reference guide for HIM professionals and subject matter experts involved with HIEs.
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Security Audits of Electronic Health Information (Updated)
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
3/2/11
This practice brief identifies and defines the components necessary for a successful security audit strategy. It also outlines considerations for legal and regulatory requirements, how to evaluate and retain audit logs, and the overall audit process.
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Fundamentals of the Legal Health Record and Designated Record Set
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
2/2/11
This practice brief compiles and updates guidance from four previously published briefs to provide an overview of the purposes of the designated record set and the legal health record and helps organizations identify what information to include in each.
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EHR Adoption in LTC and the HIM Value. Appendix B: Vendor Questionnaire for EHR System Selection
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, Web extra
1/2/11
This document provides a useful vendor selection grid to support the evaluation and selection process.
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EHR Adoption in LTC and the HIM Value. Appendix A: HIM’s Role and Functions in LTC
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, Web extra
1/2/11
This resource outlines areas and tasks for which HIM professionals working in long-term facilities using EHRs are responsible.
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EHR Adoption in LTC and the HIM Value
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
1/2/11
This practice brief outlines the factors driving EHR adoption in LTC facilities, how EHRs affect LTC facilities, and the value HIM professionals can bring to LTC facilities in the process of transitioning to EHRs.
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Managing the Transition from Paper to EHRs
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
11/15/10
This practice brief provides guidance and practical steps for managing the transition from paper to EHRs and for use and disclosure, authorship, and printing from paper to hybrid (paper and electronic) records and hybrid to electronic records.
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Managing the Transition from Paper to EHRs. Appendix A: Legal Source Legend
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
11/15/10
This matrix can be used as a planning tool to ensure each major document type is addressed during the document’s transition from paper to electronic media.
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EHRs as the Business and Legal Records of Healthcare Organizations (Updated). Appendix B: Checklist for Transition to the EHR
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief attachment
11/15/10
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EHRs as the Business and Legal Records of Healthcare Organizations (Updated). Appendix A: Issues in Electronic Health Record Management
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief attachment
11/15/10
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EHRs as the Business and Legal Records of Healthcare Organizations (Updated)
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
11/15/10
It is important to look beyond the immediate clinical uses of EHR information and develop a plan that ensures the EHR and EHR system also can support the healthcare organization's business and legal needs, which is as mission critical as clinical uses.
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Role of the Personal Health Record in the EHR (Updated)
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
11/15/10
The continued use and integration of PHRs will play a pivotal role in the transformation of healthcare.
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HIPAA Security Overview (Updated)
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
11/8/10
This practice brief provides a succinct overview of the security rule, along with some of the background and basic concepts needed to understand it. Skills HIM professionals have that may aid in implementing the rule in their organizations are outlined.
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Migrating from Paper to EHRs in Physician Practices. Appendix A: Historical Medical Record/Chart Abstraction Checklist—Primary Care
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, Web extra
11/2/10
This checklist can help physician practices migrate all the appropriate data from an individual patient paper record into the EHR.
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Migrating from Paper to EHRs in Physician Practices
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
11/2/10
This practice brief outlines the considerations and decisions that must be made for an effective migration from paper to EHRs within a physician practice or clinic.
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e-HIM Practice Transformation (Updated)
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
8/2/10
This practice brief outlines how health IT will change information management and how HIM professionals and their departments can prepare for this transformation.
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RFP Process for EHR Systems (Updated)
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
7/15/10
This practice brief guides organizations through the selection process, assisting providers as they issue RFIs for proposal for EHRs or component systems.
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RFI/RFP Template (Updated)
American Health Information Management Association
AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, Web extra
7/15/10
This template is provided as a sample tool to assist healthcare providers as they issue an RFI or an RFP for electronic health record (EHR) or component systems.
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Electronic Signature, Attestation, and Authorship (Updated)
AHIMA e-HIM Workgroup: Best Practices for Electronic Signature and Attestation
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
11/2/09
This practice brief provides insight into the technology used to implement e-signatures, the related health IT standards, the regulatory environment, and recommendations on best practices.
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Electronic Signature, Attestation, and Authorship. Appendix A: HL7 EHR-System Records Management and Evidentiary Support (RM-ES) Functional Profile Standard Excerpt
AHIMA e-HIM Workgroup: Best Practices for Electronic Signature and Attestation
AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, Web extra
11/2/09
This excerpt from the HL7 EHR-S RM-ES outlines the standards for entity authentication, information attestation, pending manager record states, amended, corrected, or augmented manager record states, and document succession management and version control.
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HIM and Health IT: Discovering Common Ground in an Electronic Healthcare Environment
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
11/2/08
This practice brief outlines how HIM and health IT can find common ground in an electronic healthcare environment.
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Enterprise Content and Record Management for Healthcare
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
10/2/08
This practice brief explores the emerging requirements for enterprise records and content management in healthcare organizations.
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