New Dawn for Computer-assisted Coding 
Bessinger, Mary
external web site
11/4/09
Motivated by the upcoming ICD-10 transition, and incented by ARRA, hospitals should embrace CAC to drive clinical, financial and operational performance improvement.
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2009 HIMSS Security Survey 
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
external web site
11/3/09
This study addressed security enviroments, including access to patient data, access tracking and audit logs, and medical identity theft, as well as preparedness and approaches for meeting new privacy and security requirements contained in ARRA.
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Best Practices: a Self-Funding Transition Plan to Electronic Health Records
Santangelo, Ed
External - used with permission, Iron Mountain
11/2/09
This paper examines how to unlock substantial savings when transitioning to an EHR by implementing best
practices, and developing a strategic transition plan that addresses workflow as well as technology.
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National Health Reform Law and Policy Project
George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services
external web site
9/3/09
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Public Policy Discussion: Taking the Measure of the Stark Law
American Health Lawyers Association, Public Interest Committee
External - used with permission, AHLA
8/10/09
This AHLA white paper analyzes the problems, benefits, and challenges of the Stark Law in a time of pending health care reform.
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Preparing to Implement HITECH: a State Guide for Electronic Health Information Exchange
State Alliance for E-Health
external web site, National Governors Association
8/4/09
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Migrating Toward Meaningful Use: the State of Health Information Exchange
eHealth Initiative
external web site
7/22/09
A Report Based on the Results of the eHealth Initiative’s 2009
Sixth Annual Survey of Health Information Exchange
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Security Breach Notification Chart
Perkins Coie
external web site
7/20/09
This chart provides current information on security breach notification legislation in U.S. states and territories.
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Stop Medicare Fraud [external web site] 
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Department of Justice
U.S. Government, DHHS, DOJ, external web site
7/15/09
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Health IT Adoption Toolbox [external web site]
U.S. DHHS, Health Resources and Services Administration's Office of Health Information Technology
U.S. Government, HRSA, external web site
7/15/09
This resource is meant to serve health centers as well as other safety net and ambulatory care providers seeking to implement health IT to improve the overall effectiveness of their institutions.
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ICD-10 Timeline with Comments as of July 15, 2009
NHICA, WEDI
external web site
7/15/09
Updated timeline from the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Exchange ICD-10 Timeline Initiative
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Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) [external web site]
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
U.S. Government, external web site
7/15/09
ONCHIT web site
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ICD-10 Will Reduce Payment Errors and Claims Denials, but Will Also Help Fraud Investigators
Youngstrom, Nina
external web site, AIS Health.com
7/8/09
Reprinted from Report on Medicare Compliance
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Bringing Better Value: Recommendations to Address the Costs and Causes of Administrative Complexity in the Nation's Healthcare System
HASC Summit on Administrative Simplification Final Report
external web site
7/2/09
Report of a summit on administrative complexity held in Washington, D.C. on November 13, 2008 by the Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition (HASC).
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Protect your patients, protect your practice: What you need to know about the Red Flags Rule
American Medical Association
external web site, AMA
7/2/09
Policies and procedures to comply with the Red Flags Rule should complement existing HIPAA privacy and security policies that outline administrative, technical and physical safeguards to ensure the security of patients’ private health information.
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AMA identity theft prevention and detection and Red Flags Rule compliance: Sample policy
American Medical Association
external web site, AMA
7/2/09
Sample document contains policies and procedures in order to comply with the requirements of the Red Flags Rule that entities have reasonable policies and procedures in place to identify, detect, and respond to red flags.
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State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Information Recovery Web Sites
external web site, U.S. Government
7/1/09
The state Web sites now have web pages that help explain how the states are spending funds allocated by the Recovery Act.
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Encouraging the Use of, and Rethinking Protections for De-Identified (and "Anonymized") Health Data
Center for Democracy & Technology
external web site
6/25/09
This paper argues for setting different levels of anonymization for different uses of data, requiring greater accountability for re-identification, and enforcing existing policies designed to place limits on the amount of data collected and retained.
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HealthDataRights.org
external web site
6/23/09
web site devoted to an individual's right to his or her personal health information; contains the Declaration of Health Data Rights
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Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
external web site, RWJF
6/17/09
Round one final report
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Defining and Testing EMR Usability
HIMSS EHR Usability Task Force
external web site, HIMSS
6/15/09
This HIMSS report addresses EHR usability and the challenges involved in developing more user-friendly products to encourage greater EHR adoption.
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Letter and Proposals sent to President Obama
AdvaMed, AHIP, AHA, AMA PhRMA, SEIU
external web site
6/1/09
Proposals from six different sectors of the health care industry outlining steps to improve health care and reduce health care spending.
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Acronyms and Initialisms for Health Information Resources [link]
Shams, Marie-Lise Antoun
external web site
5/29/09
Acronyms for global information and data resources in health, medical, and veterinary sciences.
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Patient-Centered Medical Home: What, Why, and How?
Adams, Jim, et al.
IBM Global Business Services, external web site
5/28/09
Executive summary; register here to download a copy of the full report.
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To Err is Human--to Delay is Deadly
Consumer's Union
Consumers Union Safe Patient Project, external web site
5/20/09
In this report from Consumer’s Union Safe Patient Project, the U.S. is given a failing grade on progress on select recommendations believed necessary to create a health-care system free of preventable medical harm.
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