Electronic Signature, Attestation, and Authorship (Updated) 
AHIMA e-HIM Workgroup: Best Practices for Electronic Signature and Attestation
AHIMA Practice Brief, 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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Transitioning ICD-10-CM/PCS Data Management Processes
AHIMA e-HIM Workgroup on the Transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report, AHIMA Journal
10/2/09
This practice brief outlines the technical differences of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS and the mapping tools that facilities can use with their implementations.
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Planning Organizational Transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS
AHIMA e-HIM Workgroup on the Transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report, AHIMA Journal
10/2/09
The upgrade to ICD-10-CM/PCS provides an exceptional opportunity to revolutionize the way health data are used, and if organizations have not begun their planning efforts they should consider initiating them immediately.
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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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Ensuring Security of High-Risk Information in EHRs
AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on Security of Personal Health Information
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
9/2/08
This practice brief identifies health information that may require a higher degree of security and recommends EHR system features that can help secure sensitive information and provide sufficient safeguards to shield this information from misuse.
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Quality Data and Documentation for EHRs in Physician Practice
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
8/2/08
This practice brief explores the issues and user practices that can affect data and documentation quality in the EHR, and outlines recommendations for addressing those issues and practices to maintain and improve the quality of patient care provided.
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Mitigating Medical Identity Theft
AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on Medical Identity Theft
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
7/2/08
This practice brief explores medical identity theft, its ramifications, and how HIM professionals and others can work together to prevent, investigate, and mitigate the damages it causes.
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Collecting Root Cause to Improve Coding Quality Measurement
e-HIM Work Group on Benchmark Standards for Clinical Coding Performance Measurement quality subgroup
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
3/2/08
This practice brief explores methods for reporting coding quality and shares highlights from a survey on coding quality measurement. It provides a model for reporting coding errors by root cause.
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Litigation Response Planning and Policies for E-Discovery
AHIMA e-Discovery Task Force
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
2/2/08
Using the recently enacted Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as the foundation, this practice brief outlines five key steps in developing a litigation response plan and process.
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Best Practices for Problem Lists in an EHR
AHIMA Best Practices for Problem Lists in an EHR Work Group
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
1/2/08
This practice brief explores the use and maintenance of problem lists in health records with a special focus on how electronic environments support additional functionality for sharing information and supporting continuity of care.
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Developing a Legal Health Record Policy
AHIMA EHR Practice Council
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
10/2/07
This practice brief guides healthcare organizations in creating a legal health record policy for business and disclosure purposes, and provides considerations and questions that organizations transitioning to electronic health records should address.
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HIM Principles in Health Information Exchange
AHIMA e-HIM Workgroup on HIM in Health Information Exchange
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
9/2/07
HIE initiatives must focus on more than their IT model. They must make important early decisions on HIM issues that hard-wire data quality, privacy, and security into the network, ensuring the goals of improved patient safety and quality of care are met.
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Data Content for EHR Documentation
Kallem, Crystal; Burrington-Brown, Jill; Dinh, Angela K
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
7/2/07
This practice brief guides HIM professionals and organizations in selecting and developing documentation applications for health information systems.
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RFP Process for EHR Systems
AHIMA e-HIMŽ Workgroup on the RFP Process for EHR Systems
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
6/2/07
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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Health Data Access, Use, and Control
Burrington-Brown, Jill; Hjort, Beth; Washington, Lydia
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
5/2/07
The increasing use of electronic health data raises the industry's need to define stakeholder rights and responsibilities, and requires an increasing focus on the importance of data stewardship.
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Assessing and Improving EHR Data Quality
AHIMA e-HIMŽ Workgroup on Assessing and Improving Healthcare Data Quality in the EHR
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
3/2/07
This practice brief identifies and recommends best practices for accessing and auditing the health record for data quality in EHR systems.
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Guidelines for EHR Documentation to Prevent Fraud. Appendix A: Resource List
AHIMA e-HIMTM Work Group: Guidelines for EHR Documentation Practice
Web Extra, AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
1/2/07
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Guidelines for EHR Documentation to Prevent Fraud. Appendix B: Case Studies
AHIMA e-HIMTM Work Group: Guidelines for EHR Documentation Practice
Web Extra, AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
1/2/07
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Guidelines for EHR Documentation to Prevent Fraud. Appendix C: Steps to Prevent Fraud in EHR Documentation
AHIMA e-HIMTM Work Group: Guidelines for EHR Documentation Practice
Web Extra, AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
1/2/07
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Guidelines for EHR Documentation to Prevent Fraud. Appendix D: Electronic Health Record Fraud Checklist
AHIMA e-HIMTM Work Group: Guidelines for EHR Documentation Practice
Web Extra, AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
1/2/07
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Guidelines for EHR Documentation to Prevent Fraud
AHIMA e-HIMTM Work Group: Guidelines for EHR Documentation Practice
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
1/2/07
This AHIMA Practice Brief outlines guidelines developed by an AHIMA e-HIMŽ work group to prevent EHR documentation fraud.
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New Electronic Discovery Civil Rule
AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on e-Discovery
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
9/2/06
This practice brief provides an overview of pretrial requirements in the e-discovery civil rule, and identifies steps HIM professionals can take to prepare their departments and organizations for the challenges associated with e-discovery.
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Using the SSN as a Patient Identifier
AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs)
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
3/2/06
This article examines SSN uses within the healthcare industry, its inappropriateness for most of these uses, and alternative forms of identification that may be used in its place. 
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Data Standard Time: Data Content Standardization and the HIM Role
AHIMA e-HIM Workgroup on EHR Data Content
AHIMA Journal article, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
2/2/06
To successfully share health information, computers need to do more than just talk to each other; they need to understand each other. They need standards for the data they share.
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