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AHIMA describes its foundation as a sister organization to the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) and states the foundation has a charitable and educational nature. The foundation formulates and issues opinions, supports education, conducts research and compiles its contributions into the AHIMA BoK ( body of knowledge ).
Healthcare quality and safety require that the right information be available at the right time to support patient care and health system management decisions. Gaining consensus on essential data content and documentation standards is a necessary prerequisite for high-quality data in the interconnected healthcare system of the future.
Clinical data standards are used to store and communicate information related to healthcare so that its meaning is unambiguous. They are used in clinical practice, in activity analysis and finding, and in research and development. There are many existing and proposed standards and many bodies working in this field.
Seeing that each patient's medical record is complete, kept confidential, and safeguarded from individuals not involved with the medical care of the patient are primary responsibilities. [ 4 ] A RHIA certification is a preferred qualification for positions including health information management director, clinical documentation improvement ...
This may enable increased flexibility, improved disease surveillance, better medical product safety surveillance, [32] better public health monitoring (such as for evaluation of health policy effectiveness), [33] [34] increased quality of care (via guidelines [35] and improved medical history sharing [36] [37]), and novel life-saving treatments.
Quality improvement organizations that seek out an efficient means of measuring that criteria have been assessed and met; Standards development and informatics experts that gain consensus on standards; Vendors who benefit from having to meet a single set of criteria and from having a voice in the process
The data management plan describes the activities to be conducted in the course of processing data. Key topics to cover include the SOPs to be followed, the clinical data management system (CDMS) to be used, description of data sources, data handling processes, data transfer formats and process, and quality control procedure
The Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) is an accrediting organization for degree-granting programs in health informatics and health information management. [1]