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E-HIM: Our Commitment to Lead
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2005
For the past two years, AHIMA’s report “Vision of the e-HIM® Future” has served as a touchstone in our rapidly adapting field. When published in 2003, the report painted a picture of evolving HIM roles and practice in a healthcare industry moving from paper to an elec....
Legal Process and Electronic Health Records
Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on the Legal Health Record
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2005
The custodian of an electronic health record (EHR) has the same concerns as the custodian of a paper health record when the record becomes involved in the legal process. Most often this occurs in some form of lawsuit in which a party seeks to discover and introduce evidence from the record. The....
Physician Order Entry Goes Online: the Effect on Records and HIM Operations
Author: Curtis, Elizabeth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2005
As CPOE turns from vision to reality, what impact is it having on HIM? And what impact is HIM having on it?
Installing an order entry system in a busy hospital environment can be a huge undertaking for administration, information systems, nursing, ancillary departments, and the medical s....
e-HIM: From Vision to Reality
Author: Bloomrosen, Meryl
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2005
Health IT has been a hot topic in the two years since AHIMA published "A Vision of the e-HIM Future." Members of the original task force take a look back.
This fall marks the second anniversary of the AHIMA report "A Vision of the e-HIM Future." The report, published in September 2003,....
State and Pattern of Health Information Technology Adoption
Author: Fonkych, Kateryna; Taylor, Roger
Source: External web site
Publication Date: September 15, 2005
HIE Takes Shape in the States
Author: Frisse, Mark; Marchibroda, Janet; Welebob, Emily
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2005
Local factors shape state and regional health information exchange, but as differing models
develop, common defining principles are emerging.
The exchange of health information across traditional institutional boundaries is inevitable. Nearly every stakeholder group—hospitals....
IT Office Visits: QIOs Join Community Health IT Efforts with the 8th Scope of Work
Author: Bechtel, Christine
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2005
CMS’s new scope of work sends QIOs to physician offices, hospitals, and home health agencies to provide free assistance implementing health information technology.
Achieving the goal of widely adopted, interoperable health information technology (HIT) rests on the ability of HIM an....
Radical Technology: Your Grandfather's Telephone
Author: Smith, Douglas L.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2005
More than 100 years ago, a cutting-edge technology offered the potential to improve and better manage care. But like each innovation that was to follow, the telephone wasn’t implemented in a day.
Editor’s note: The most common technologies surrounding us were once revolutiona....
Forms Management Process: Keeping Pace with EHR Development
Author: Westhafer, Kathy J
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2005
Have you given any thought to how your medical record committee and forms management process need to transition with electronic health record (EHR) development? At the Christiana Care Health System, we have. Here’s our evolving story.
Christiana Care is a two-hospital health s....
Update: Guidelines for Defining the Legal Health Record for Disclosure Purposes
Author: AHIMA e-HIM Work Group on the Legal Health Record
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2005
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
User Agreements for Electronic Health Information Networks
Author: Smith, Paul; Williams, Rebecca L.; Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Source: External web site
Publication Date: August 10, 2005
Electronic Health Records: Synthesizing Recent Evidence and Current Policy
Author: Moreno, Lorenzo
Source: External web site
Publication Date: August 02, 2005
Transcription's Future(s): AAMT and AHIMA Outline Scenarios for the Years Ahead
Author: Fuller, Sandra R.; Dennis, Jill Callahan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2005
Identifying the factors that will shape transcription in the coming years helps create strategies to anticipate and influence the possible outcomes.
What does the future hold for transcription? Will there be rapid adoption of technology within a standards and quality framework that suppo....
Problem List Coding in e-HIM
Author: Fraser, Greg
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: July 2005
In 1968 Larry Weed, MD, introduced the idea that a complete and accurate problem list is an essential component of the medical record.1 The problem-oriented medical record (POMR), in which all data contained in the medical record can be linked to a list of problems, has been almost universally....
Sedona Principles: Best Practices Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production
Author: Sedona Conference. Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Documnet Retention & Production
Source: External web site
Publication Date: July 02, 2005
This is the post public-comment version of The Sedona Principles. The Working Group on Electronic Document Production was conceived to develop principles to guide organizational practices and legal doctrine.
Quest for Interoperable Electronic Health Records: a Guide to Legal Issues in Establishing Health Information Networks
Author: Rosati, Kristen; Lamar, Marilyn
Source: External web site
Publication Date: July 02, 2005
Stamp of Approval: Getting EHR Wheels Turning with Product Certification
Author: Rhodes, Harry B.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2005
Establishing private-sector certification of health IT products is one of the key actions outlined by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the report “The Decade of Health Information Technology: Delivering Consumer-centric and Information-rich Heal....
Diffusion and Value of Healthcare Information Technology
Author: Bower, Anthony G.
Source: External web site
Publication Date: May 15, 2005
EHR's Impact on HIM Functions
Author: AHIMA Work Group
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2005
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT)
Author: CCHIT
Source: External web site
Publication Date: April 25, 2005
Matchmaking: an Interview with John Halamka on Linking Patient Records Regionally
Author: Rollins, Gina
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2005
John Halamka has a history of matching patient records in a large health system. How can that be done in regional networks of unaffiliated organizations?
John Halamka, MD, is chief information officer at CareGroup Healthcare System, a Boston-based integrated delivery system with six hosp....
Transforming Healthcare: the Time for Change is Now
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2005
In recent remarks to Connecting for Health’s steering group, David Brailer, MD, PhD, the national health information technology coordinator, noted that if this is the decade of health IT adoption, 2005 could well turn out to be the year of “maximum flexion.” Brailer urged the....
SNOMED CT Helps Drive EHR Success
Author: Giannangelo, Kathy; Berkowitz, Lyle
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: April 2005
With the advent of electronic health record (EHR) systems, IT solutions are needed to ease the recording of standard codes for clinical encounters. The basis for these products is a standard terminology, without which the full benefits of an EHR are unlikely to be realized. One expert notes th....
Physicians, Patients, and EHRs: When it Comes to a Consultation, Is Three a Crowd?
Author: Wager, Karen A.; Ward, David M; Lee, Frances Wickham; White, Andrea Weatherby; Davis, Kimberly S; Clancy, Dawn E
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2005
Research in an ambulatory care practice finds that, despite physician concerns, patients don’t perceive EHRs as intruders in the exam room.
Although great strides have been made in the use and acceptance of EHR systems in ambulatory care practice, there are still barriers that kee....
EHRs, the Doctor Will See You Now
Author: Carol, Ruth
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2005
EHR systems are costly to purchase, complex to evaluate, and require expertise to implement. So why are small physician practices buying more of them than ever before?
There are plenty of good reasons why EHRs have been scarce in small and medium-sized physician practices. Enormous cost....
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