Author: Nunn, Sandra L.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2008

Many of today’s healthcare entities have hybrid medical records, and policies abound describing what parts of the record are still accessed in paper and what components are now fully electronic. Wherever healthcare organizations are in the race to create fully accessible and secure elect....

Author: Dougherty, Michelle

Source: External - used with permission

Publication Date: March 02, 2008

This article, written by an AHIMA Director of Practice Leadership and published in the Journal of Health Care Compliance (March/April 2008), makes the argument that successful implementation of an EHR system occurs when all uses for the record are considered.

Author: Nunn, Sandra L.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2008

How a project that began with 50 policies and procedures critical to Joint Commission standards is growing into a content management system encompassing thousands of documents from across an organization.
Optimally healthcare organizations should arrive at an enterprise content management....

Author: Gelzer, Reed D.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2008

Under certain circumstances, outputs such as electronic or printed documents from computerized systems can be admitted into legal proceedings as appropriate representations of business records.1 However, in order to be valid and admissible, they must adhere to well-established business record....

Author: AHIMA e-Discovery Task Force

Source: AHIMA web extra

Publication Date: February 02, 2008

AHIMA Model e-Discovery Policies
Subject/Title

Preservation and Legal Hold for Health Information and Records

 

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Author: Dougherty, Michelle

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2008

Criteria from standards organization HL7 help organizations evaluate their electronic record systems as legally sound business records.

Medical records are submitted as evidence in many kinds of litigation, including malpractice, employment, and workers compensation. Traditionally he....

Author: Kloss, Linda L

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2008

AHIMA has been working hard to advance the industry’s understanding of the legal electronic health record and to develop practical advice for ensuring that EHRs protect patients and providers at each stage of development. While descriptive, the phrase legal EHR seems to strike fear in some who....

Author: AHIMA e-Discovery Task Force

Source: AHIMA web extra

Publication Date: February 02, 2008

AHIMA Model e-Discovery Policy

Subject/Title

Production and Disclosure of Health
Information and Records
for e-Discovery

 

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Author: Strong, Karen

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2008

The convergence of litigation and electronic records is raising the bar on managing content from multiple systems and multiple departments. That need is introducing healthcare to the practice of managing content and records enterprise-wide.
We’ve come a long way since the days of microfil....

Author: Featheringham, Meg

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2008

Laurie Rinehart-Thompson, JD, RHIA, CHP, didn’t plan on going into academia when she began her HIM career. “I absolutely love it, but I didn’t originally consider it,” she says of how she came to be assistant professor of clinical allied medicine at The Ohio State University.

Rinehar....