Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA Advantage

Publication Date: August 2006

Are you ready to take your knowledge of standards to the next level?


HIM professionals will soon be working with standards more than ever before. We will…

…actively contribute to EHR product development as purchasers and employers.

… create....

Author: Donham, Greg W.; Mallia, Tony

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2006

An ambitious project offers lessons for the NHIN and illustrates core HIM issues in data exchange.
In response to the reported illnesses of Gulf War veterans, the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) undertook an initiative to create comprehensive, lifelong....

Author: Rhodes, Harry B.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2006

On a recent trip out of town, I had a very enlightening conversation with a cab driver on the way to the airport. Even though it was early in the morning, the driver was extremely talkative and initiated a conversation about what I did for a living. This immediately led to direct questions rega....

Author: Stark, Marilyn

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2006

Advanced health data exchange requires that organizations agree on how to transmit and label the data they share. Organizations need standards for transmitting messages, and then they need standards for identifying the data inside them.

One set of content standards is well ahead....

Author: Just, Beth Haenke; Lusk, Katherine

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2006

Cleaning up MPI data helps pave the way for successful EHR systems.
If you build an electronic health record (EHR) system, physicians will certainly come. But if you don’t build it well—with accurate information and the proper fail-safes to ensure ongoing accountability and ef....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA Advantage

Publication Date: June 2006

What’s that sound? It could be your cell phone ringing…but it’s really a reminder to update your technology skills. Here’s the connection: Your cell phone may have the latest bells and whistles, but do you know how to use them? Likewise, are you a proficient user of the....

Author: Dolan, Thomas G.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2006

By sweating the IT, ASPs offer providers an easier way to go digital. But providers should ensure they can get their data back when and how they want.
Say you've outsourced mission-critical applications to an application service provider (ASP). Everything goes well, but then something hap....

Author: Quinsey, Carol Ann

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2006

This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: Bloomrosen, Meryl; Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2006

Rapidly advancing data exchange initiatives have left a trail of acronyms in their wake. Is a SNO a RHIO, and where did LHIIs go?



As thinking on the nature of regional and nationwide data exchange evolves, terms devised from necessity have been left behind just as....

Author: Fenton, Susan H.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2006

There are many different ways to get clinical data into an electronic health record (EHR), including feeds from machines, traditional transcription of documents, and emerging technologies such as speech recognition. The form of data entry an organization chooses will be one of the most importa....