Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on Assessing and Improving Healthcare Data Quality in the EHR

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2007

Improving data quality in an electronic healthcare environment requires a greater focus on standardized documentation procedures. With an EHR, the need to evaluate and improve healthcare data quality through concurrent assessment, data collection monitoring, and ongoing process improvement requ....

Author: Kloss, Linda L

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2007

Regional health information organizations (RHIOs) represent what is best about public service organizations in our country. They are voluntary organizations formed by people who want to improve the safety and quality of healthcare by making reliable information available where it is neede....

Author: Schleis, Kathy

Source: AHIMA web extra

Publication Date: March 02, 2007

Holy Family Memorial Medical Center (HFM), a hospital within a healthcare network, has a hybrid record-part paper, part electronic. In l989, HFM initiated the computerization of the diagnostic areas of the hospital such as the lab and dictated reports. Through the years, system implementation h....

Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on Assessing and Improving Healthcare Data Quality in the EHR

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2007

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

Author: AHIMA; MGMA Center for Research; Foundation of Research and Education (FORE)

Source: AHIMA Foundation

Publication Date: February 27, 2007

Author: Health Level Seven. EHR Interoperability Workgroup

Source: External healthcare industry report

Publication Date: February 07, 2007

Part of the HL7 2007 EHR Interoperability Model DSTU, this report outlines technical, semantic, and process interoperability. Also available from the HL7 web site here.

Author: Campbell, Keith E.; Giannangelo, Kathy

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2007

Health IT is bogged down in a quagmire of unaligned classification and terminology systems. New recommendations from AHIMA and AMIA help point to the way out.

The healthcare industry is looking to IT to reduce costs, assess quality of care, and deliver services more effici....

Author: Cimino, James J.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2007

Despite the corresponding increase in the use of computers to capture, store, and retrieve the information to meet these requirements, a great deal of redundancy exists in the process of the actual collection, while the goal of reusing the data for multiple purposes remains elusive.
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Author: Foley, Margaret M.; Hall, Candace; Perron, Kathryn; D'Andrea, Rachael

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2007

Clinical mapping is essential because healthcare has no single medical terminology, making it difficult to understand and translate meanings across the different terminologies developed for different uses. Mapping allows the capture of data in the electronic health record (EHR) with the t....

Author: Kloss, Linda L

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2007

Structured terminologies and classifications form the necessary language for a nationwide health information network. However, the US lacks a national strategy for coordinated development, maintenance, and use of these essential tools.


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