Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2014

There is a growing hunger in healthcare today for attaining meaningful data. It is no longer an option to sift through large amounts of data stored in a variety of systems, spending valuable man hours to produce information that can be utilized to make good business decisions. Allowing fo....

Author: Osborne, Kim; Spellman, Lisa; Warner, Diana

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2014

Healthcare organizations today are using a variety of information systems. In the past, it was enough to have stand-alone systems to meet the business and clinical needs of an organization. In today’s increasingly complex and interconnected world, however, standardization of information a....

Author: Dooling, Julie A

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2014

Data are the assets that healthcare relies upon to provide needed information for making decisions and ultimately, hopefully, improving patient care. The volume of data collected today is staggering and continues to grow with the advent of electronic health records (EHRs). The healthcare d....

Author: AHIMA Work Group

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2014

This Practice Brief explores the complexity of patient identification integrity, including 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. It urges industry stakeholders to recognize that now is a critical time to address accuracy in patient identification systems.

Author: Rubin, Joshua C; Friedman, Charles P

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2014

As the “Vision” section of AHIMA’s website states, AHIMA aims to “lead the advancement and ethical use of quality health information to promote health and wellness worldwide.” In many ways, the Learning Health System’s (LHS) overarching vision represents....

Author: Lee, Howard

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2014

When IBM announced that they were developing a supercomputing system called “Watson,” many fans of literary icon Sherlock Holmes thought of the London-based detective’s trusted friend Dr. John Watson—and not the computer’s actual namesake, IBM founder Thomas Watson. But the mistake isn’t....

Author: Viangteeravat, Teeradache; Rao Nagisetty, Naga Satya V

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2014

Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from a manuscript published in the Winter 2014 issue of AHIMA’s quarterly scholarly research journal, Perspectives in Health Information Management, “Giving Raw Data a Chance to Talk: A Demonstration of Exploratory Visual Analytics with a Pe....

Author: Alzu'bi, Amal; Zhou, Leming; Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: April 2014

Abstract


In recent years, the term personalized medicine has received more and more attention in the field of healthcare. The increasing use of this term is closely related to the astonishing advancement in DNA sequencing technologies and other high-throughput biotechnologies. A l....

Author: Porterfield, Amber; Engelbert, Kate; Coustasse, Alberto

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: April 2014

Abstract


Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) is an important part of the nation’s push to enhance the safety and quality of the prescribing process. E-prescribing allows providers in the ambulatory care setting to send prescriptions electronically to the pharmacy and can....

Author: Joshi, Ashish; Amadi, Chioma; Trout, Kate; Obaro, Stephen

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: April 2014

Abstract


Objective: The objective of the study is to evaluate the usability of a stand-alone, Internet-enabled interactive surveillance system designed to monitor the burden of invasive bacterial infections among children in Nigeria.


Method: A convenience sample of 1....