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API Healthcare was founded in 1982 by Luis Garcia and is based in Hartford, Wisconsin. [1] Formerly known as API Software, Inc. the company was purchased by Francisco Partners, a private equity firm headquartered in San Francisco, in November 2008. Before that, Luis Garcia and his wife Iris had run the company since 1982. [2]
Traditionally focused mainly on hospitals and paper medical records, the field presently covers all health information technology systems, including electronic health records, clinical decision support systems, and so on, for all segments of health care. As of 2013, the association has more than 71,000 members in four membership classifications.
Health information management's standards history is dated back to the introduction of the American Health Information Management Association, founded in 1928 "when the American College of Surgeons established the Association of Record Librarians of North America (ARLNA) to 'elevate the standards of clinical records in hospitals and other medical institutions.'" [3]
MIB Group, Inc. or MIB (formerly the Medical Information Bureau) is a membership corporation owned by approximately 430 member insurance companies in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1902 and based in Braintree, Massachusetts , MIB provides services designed to protect insurers, policyholders, and applicants from attempts to conceal or ...
Epic primarily develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a proprietary electronic medical record software application, known in whole as 'Epic' or as Epic EMR. The company's healthcare software is centered on its Chronicles database management system. Epic's applications support functions related to patient care, including ...
The Sync for Science (S4S) profile builds on FHIR to help medical research studies ask for (and if approved by the patient, receive) patient-level electronic health record data. [ 18 ] In January, 2018, Apple announced that its iPhone Health App would allow viewing a user's FHIR-compliant medical records when providers choose to make them ...
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 ...
In computing, an enterprise[-wide] master patient index is a form of customer data integration (CDI) specific to the healthcare industry.Healthcare organizations and groups use EMPI to identify, match, merge, de-duplicate, and cleanse patient records to create a master index that may be used to obtain a complete and single view of a patient.