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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Defining the Personal Health Information Management Role
AHIMA Personal Health Record Practice Council
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
6/2/08
The transition to patient-centric records challenges HIM professionals to realign their thinking about health information management. They must begin to consider their roles and responsibilities in the arena of personal health information management.
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Defining and Disclosing the Designated Record Set and the Legal Health Record
Dougherty, Michelle; Washington, Lydia
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
4/2/08
This practice brief identifies the purposes of the designated record set and the legal health record for healthcare organizations and provides guidelines for disclosing health records from each set.
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AHIMA Model E-Discovery Policies: Preservation and Legal Hold for Health Information and Records
AHIMA e-Discovery Task Force
Web extra, AHIMA Practice Brief attachment
2/2/08
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AHIMA Model E-Discovery Policies: Retention, Storage, and Destruction of Paper and Electronic Health Information and Records
AHIMA e-Discovery Task Force
Web extra, AHIMA Practice Brief attachment
2/2/08
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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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AHIMA Model E-Discovery Policies: Production and Disclosure of Health Information and Records for E-Discovery
AHIMA e-Discovery Task Force
Web extra, AHIMA Practice Brief attachment
2/2/08
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Developing a Legal Health Record Policy: Appendix A
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
10/2/07
Legal health record matrix
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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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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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PHRs and Physician Practices
Fahrenholz, Cheryl Gregg, Buck, Stacie L
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
4/2/07
This practice brief outlines the issues physician practices encounter as patients increasingly utilize PHRs, and explores the decisions physician practices must make as they develop policies and procedures to support patients.
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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
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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Privacy and Security in Health Information Exchange
Carter, Patricia, et al.
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
11/2/06
This practice brief outlines privacy and security issues related to developing and implementing a health information exchange.
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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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Essential People Skills for EHR Implementation Success
Fenton, Susan H., Giannangelo, Kathy, Stanfill, Mary
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
6/2/06
This practice brief examines some of the literature on the success factors for EHR adoption and offers the essential people skills for all professionals involved in an EHR implementation.
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Purchasing Strategies for EHR Systems
McClendon, Kelly
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
5/2/06
This practice brief outlines general guidelines routinely seen in the typical purchasing process of electronic health record systems.
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Using HL7 Standards to Evaluate an EHR
Quinsey, Carol Ann
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal
4/2/06
This practice brief reviews HL7's functional model and offers suggestions on how it can be used to prepare requests for information or proposals for information systems.
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Guidelines for Developing a Data Dictionary
AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on EHR Data Content
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
2/2/06
This practice brief defines what a dictionary is, describes why one is needed, and provides guidelines for developing one.
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Maintaining a Legally Sound Health Record: Paper and Electronic
E-HIM Work Group on Maintaining the Legal EHR
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
11/2/05
The health record is the legal business record for a healthcare organization. This practice brief reviews the legal documentation guidelines for entries in and maintenance of a legally sound health record, applicable to paper-based and electronic records.
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Legal Process and Electronic Health Records
AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on the Legal Health Record
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
10/2/05
This AHIMA practice brief reviews the EHR custodian's responsiblities in the legal process. 
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Update: Guidelines for Defining the Legal Health Record for Disclosure Purposes
AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on the Legal Health Record
AHIMA Practice Brief, AHIMA Journal, AHIMA E-HIM Task Force Report
9/2/05
A reassessment of the legal health record in light of new technologies, users, and uses.
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