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e-HIM® Practice Guidelines

AHIMA has commissioned a number of volunteer work groups to develop practice standards for areas that play an integral role in the transition from paper to electronic health records. Currently available standards include:

• HIM Principles in Health Information Exchange
• Data Content for EHR Documentation
• The RFP Process for EHR Systems
• Health Data Access, Use, and Control
• PHRs and Physician Practices
• Assessing and Improving EHR Data Quality
• Guidelines for EHR Documentation to Prevent Fraud
• E-Discovery and HIM: How Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Will Affect HIM Professionals
• The New Electronic Discovery Civil Rule
• Guidelines for Developing a Data Dictionary
• Data Standard Time: Data Content Standardization and the HIM Role
• Surveying the RHIO Landscape
• Using the SSN as a Patient Identifier
• Update: Maintaining a Legally Sound Health Record--Paper and Electronic
• Update: Guidelines for Defining the Legal Health Record for Disclosure Purposes
• The Legal Process and Electronic Health Records
• The Role of the Personal Health Record in the EHR
• EHR Career Opportunities: Sample HIM Job Descriptions
• A Checklist for Assessing HIM Department Readiness and Planning for the EHR
• HIM Practice Transformation, the EHR's Impact on HIM Functions, and Imagining HIM's Future
• Delving into Computer-assisted Coding
• The Strategic Importance of Electronic Health Records Management
• Core Data Sets
• The Complete Medical Record in a Hybrid EHR Environment
• Implementing E-Signatures
• E-mail as a Provider-Patient Electronic Communication Medium and Its Impact on the Electronic Health Record
• Electronic Document Management as a Component of the Electronic Health Record
• Core Data Sets for the Physician Practice Electronic Health Record
• Speech Recognition in the Electronic Health Record

AHIMA is in the process of developing additional practice standards. For more e-HIM resources, members can log in to the FORE Library: HIM Body of Knowledge.

The e-HIM® work groups are supported in part by grants to the Foundation of Research and Education (FORE) from Dictaphone Corporation, McKesson, MedQuist, Meta Health Technology Inc., 3M Healthcare Services, Initiate Systems, Inc., Precyse Solutions, Inc., and Just Associates.

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