Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2013

Metadata is the foundation on which information management systems are built. It is required to support the various uses of data, to manage the information and record lifecycle, to verify data integrity, authenticity, and reliability, and to evaluate the relative importance of data and informat....

Author: Reno, Danielle; Kersten, Sandra K.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2013

Information governance is becoming a priority for healthcare organizations. Today's healthcare organizations invest in information technology at unprecedented rates, and IT generates more data than ever before. Stakeholders expect healthcare organizations to use health IT to bring improvem....

Author: Eramo, Lisa A

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2013

When Deborah Kohn recently logged onto her healthcare provider's patient portal to view her X-ray reports, she immediately knew something wasn't quite right. She'd undergone one X-ray of her left hand and another of her right hand. The problem?


Both X-ray reports were identi....

Author: Aschettino, Lucia; Birnbaum, Cassi L; Crocker, Janice; Grebner, Leah A.; McNicholas, Faith C.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 2013

Health information management (HIM) best practices state that it is important for HIM professionals to focus not just on the information but also on internal and external customers. Customers have varied, and ever-changing, needs that must be met by HIM professionals. Both internal and ext....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA toolkit

Publication Date: May 02, 2013

This toolkit provides guidance for developing policies and procedures, establishing an educational program and managing record requests, denials, and appeals. It highlights some of the government entities and programs that focus on medical record audits.

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA toolkit

Publication Date: April 02, 2013

This toolkit provides guidance to health information management (HIM) professionals and the industry on vocabularies as defined by ARRA’s meaningful use criteria. It includes a table of standard vocabularies required for Meaningful Use, a case study that shares lessons learned from Stage 1, and sample job descriptions to address the need for mapping professionals in the workplace.

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA toolkit

Publication Date: April 02, 2013

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2013

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) defines an “occupational medical record” as an occupation-related, chronological, cumulative record, regardless of the form or process by which it is maintained (i.e., paper document, microfiche, microfilm, or automatic data processing me....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2013

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

Author: Duckert, Jane; Rose, Angela Dinh

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2013

The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics’ (UWHC) motto of “great information, great care” has been the underlying force behind their health information technology (IT) adoption achievements since 2008. Besides attaining the highest level of the Healthcare Informat....