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
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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Electronic Signature, Attestation, and Authorship. Appendix E: Amendments, Corrections, and Deletions in Transcribed Reports Toolkit
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
11/2/09
This toolkit is designed to provide
guidance to HIM professionals when addressing amendment, correction,
and deletions within a transcribed report.
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Electronic Signature, Attestation, and Authorship. Appendix B: Laws, Regulations, and Electronic Signature Acts
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
11/2/09
The laws, regulations, and acts listed in this appendix can help HIM professionals develop and implement e-signature functionality and policy in their organizations.
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Electronic Signature, Attestation, and Authorship. Appendix D: Glossary of Terms
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
11/2/09
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Electronic Signature, Attestation, and Authorship. Appendix C: Electronic Signature Model Policy
AHIMA e-HIM Workgroup: Best Practices for Electronic Signature and Attestation
AHIMA Practice Brief attachment, Web extra
11/2/09
This model policy template recommends important legal and compliance considerations for healthcare organizations’ electronic signature policy and procedures.
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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 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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ICD-10-CM/PCS Project Management Resources
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
10/2/09
ICD-10-CM/PCS project management resources and templates that organizations can use to help during the implementation.
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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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Understanding HACs and SREs for Quality Reporting and Reimbursement
AHIMA Practice Councils (Clinical Terminology/Classification, Quality Initiatives/Secondary Data)
AHIMA Practice Brief
9/2/09
This practice brief discusses present on admission indicators, hospital-acquired conditions, and serious reportable events, highlighting the distinctions for each and how organizations should report and track them for quality reporting and reimbursement.
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Applying the Teaching Physician Guidelines
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
8/2/09
This practice brief outlines the basics of the teaching physician guidelines, including the role of the trainee and teaching physician, and what HIM professionals should look for in clinical documentation to properly code and bill services.
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Managing the Integrity of Patient Identity in Health Information Exchange
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
7/2/09
This practice brief outlines how organizations can manage patient identification systems from front-end data capture to back-end quality control as an ongoing process and carry local quality operations into health information exchange efforts.
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Current State of PHRs
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
6/2/09
This practice brief updates a survey first administered in 2007 on the state of PHRs in an effort to identify current processes (or lack thereof) and to determine which of these processes best address the significant issues in the PHR.
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Sanction Guidelines for Privacy and Security Breaches
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
5/2/09
This practice brief offers recommendations for the internal application of sanctions related to information privacy and security breaches for healthcare organizations that manage or service protected or individually identifiable health information.
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Sample Sanctions Determination Document
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief attachment
5/2/09
Organizations can use data elements from this sample form and table to create their own spreadsheet or database.
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Transitioning to ICD-10-CM/PCS— An Academic Timeline
AHIMA ICD-10-CM/PCS Academic Transition Workgroup
AHIMA Practice Brief
4/2/09
This practice brief provides a timeline of when and how academic institutions should start implementing ICD-10-CM/PCS in their curriculum over the next four years.
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Starting a Consulting Business (Updated)
Dougherty, Michelle
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
3/2/09
This practice brief walks through the critical steps to consider when starting a consulting business.
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Redisclosure of Patient Health Information (Updated)
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
2/2/09
Guidelines for the proper redisclosure of health information created by another provider and made apart from one's designated record set exist at both the federal and state level. This practice brief discusses the guidelines and makes recommendations.
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Recommended Regulations and Standards for Specific Healthcare Settings (Updated)
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
1/2/09
This practice briefs provides resources for the acquisition of and familiarization with the regulations and standards for various healthcre settings.
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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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HIM and Health IT: Appendixes
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief
11/2/08
Includes roles and job elements supporting EHR management, critical success factors, privacy & security responsibility matrix, terminology map resource and implementation checklist, roles of HIM and IT in terminology implementation, additional resources.
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Management Practices for the Release of Information
Bock, Linda J.; Demster, Barbara; Dinh, Angela K.; Gorton, Elisa R.; Lantis, James R., Jr
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
11/2/08
This practice brief discusses key management principles within HIM for the release of information in areas of quality control, productivity management, turnaround times, and backlog management.
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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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Enterprise Content and Record Management for Healthcare: Appendixes
AHIMA Journal, AHIMA Practice Brief attachment
10/2/08
Definitions, selection tools, and sample staffing models for use with AHIMA's ECRM practice brief
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Managing an Effective Query Process
AHIMA
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
10/2/08
This practice brief offers HIM professionals important components to consider in the management of an effective query process. It is intended to offer guiding principles to implement the query process while in no way prescribing what must be done.
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