Author: Stine, Kevin; Dang, Quynh

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2011

Healthcare and health IT professionals are entrusted with protecting the privacy and confidentiality of patient data. To provide this protection, these professionals frequently look to commonly accepted technologies and methodologies to safeguard the data while at rest and in transit. One tech....

Author: Dimick, Chris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2011

The federal government has been actively encouraging health information exchange through direct grants and leadership. However, its challenge now is keeping focused and getting the multiple efforts aligned.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is attempting to do in a....

Author: Voigt, Chris; Torzewski, Susan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2011

Some HIEs were surprised when the federal government announced a project to enable direct provider-to-provider information exchange. But CareSpark, an HIE piloting the lightweight exchange method, is seeing the benefits for users and a logical integration into the services it offers....

Author: Winter, Kitt; Hastings, Bob

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2011

The Social Security Administration has plenty of reasons to streamline its records request process-more than 15 million reasons each year, in fact. That's why it has been pioneering information exchange projects with the private sector, including use of the Nationwide Health Informa....

Author: Kallem, Crystal; Richesson, Rachel; DuLong, Donna; Sison, Luigi; Van Dyke, Patricia; Mon, Donald T.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2011

Organizations must consider a multitude of data standards and reporting requirements when capturing and aggregating healthcare data. These standards and requirements are vast in scope and complex to implement.

To help address these challenges, healthcare desperately needs clearly de....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief

Publication Date: April 2011

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: Cassidy, Bonnie S.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2011

HIM's primary ethical obligation is to protect patient privacy and confidential information, which includes oversight of information disclosure; health information systems and health records; and the quality of information. Both paper and electronic health records contain personal and private....

Author: Dinh, Angela K.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2011

In the past several years cloud computing has gained substantial recognition. However, it is still a relatively new concept for those in the healthcare industry.

Before adopting cloud-based services or applications, organizations need to understand how cloud computing works, the typ....

Author: Rode, Dan

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2011

Data stewardship is a hot topic. As this issue went to press, the Department of Health and Human Services was expected to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking on accounting of disclosures, an expansion of the HIPAA requirements mandated by the HITECH Act.

Rulemaking was also expe....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief

Publication Date: March 2011

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.