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Data Content Standards: the Nexus of HIM Practice
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2006
One of AHIMA’s key goals for 2006 is to promote quality and safety through standards for data content and documentation. Quality and safety require that the right information is available at the right time to support patient care and health system management decisions. Gaining consensus....
Guidelines for Developing a Data Dictionary
Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on EHR Data Content
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2006
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Managing Data Content: Clinical Data Management Programs Improve Reimbursement
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2006
Although we’ve made progress in advancing the EHR initiative, we continue to struggle with data content management. The data content management crisis is not unique to healthcare, according to Ruth Stanat, global business consultant. All businesses—not just healthcare—are &l....
Standards Harmony: Why is it So Hard for Healthcare?
Author: Appavu, Soloman I.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2006
Standards harmonization in healthcare is a major challenge compared to other industries. Why?
Banking and travel industries have achieved harmonization of standards for their respective IT systems. Banking transactions can be done securely from anywhere in the world through ATM machi....
Data Standard Time: Data Content Standardization and the HIM Role
Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on EHR Data Content
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2006
To efficiently and accurately share clinical information, EHRs must be interoperable—the IT systems and software applications used by various facilities and made by different vendors must be able to communicate so that usable data can be exchanged accurately, effectively, and consistentl....
Design for Better Data: How Software and Users Interact Onscreen Matters to Data Quality
Author: Williams, Adrian
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2006
Well-designed software screens are more than just user-friendly. They encourage accurate, consistent data capture. An example from coding shows how.
Computer technology is supposed to make our lives easier, especially at work. Sometimes, however, it’s easy to question if this is t....
Data Mapping
Author: McBride, Susan; Gilder, Richard; Davis, Robert; Fenton, Susan H.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2006
Exchanging health data electronically requires some cartography. HIM professionals not involved with data mapping now will be soon.
One essential component of health IT interoperability, and the improved care and efficiency it offers, is data mapping. Data mapping....
Surveying the RHIO Landscape: A Description of Current RHIO Models, with a Focus on Patient Identification
Author: E-HIM Work Group on Patient Identification in RHIOs
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2006
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Medical record ownership definitions (historical)
Author: Huffman, Edna K; Abdelhak, Mervat N.; LaTour, Kathleen M.
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: 2006
Excerpts from textbooks from 1990 to 2006
Future of Patient Identification
Author: Fernandes, Lorraine M.; O'Connor, Michele
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2006
Once data can move across vast networks, how to find it? The accuracy and flexibility of patient matching will determine interoperability’s success.
Christina Jones, a Chicago resident, is spending the day with a friend in nearby Milwaukee. While shopping after lunch, she collapse....
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