Synopsis upon the established collaboration with the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) a – collaborative of health information technology (HIT) vendors, users and associations of healthcare professionals to develop interoperability standards AHIMA will continue working with stakeholders – guiding the development of functional standards to support health information management (HIM) practices. To address user needs with HIT adoption, AHIMA has been leading the development of best practices and guidelines for information management and information governance as a part of a new globally-focused AHIMA initiative on Information Governance (IG)., The IG initiative provides an organization-wide framework for managing information throughout its lifecycle, while, supporting the organization’s strategy, operations, regulatory, legal, risk, and environmental requirements. The AHIMA IG Initiative a key component of AHIMA's overall – strategy to develop guidelines, operating rules and standards for healthcare documentation practices served as a foundation for the AHIMA-IHE collaborative activities, which resulted in – publication of the AHIMA-IHE white paper IT Standards for HIM Practices” () in 2015. “Health This document specifies HIM Business requirements for the eight AHIMA IG principles in health care (IGPHC) information availability, integrity, protection, accountability, transparency, compliance, retention and disposition. Table 1 shows AHIMA efforts for specifying business requirements completed in 2015 as a part of the AHIMA-IHE white paper as well as the 2016 effort of the AHIMA Standards Taskforce. 1. Business Requirements Specified by IG Principle Information Governance Principles: Business Requirements 2015 AHIMA-IHE White 2016 Standards Taskforce Paper Information availability Information accountability Information integrity Information compliance Information protection Information transparency Information retention Information disposition Specification of HIM business requirements is a part of the collaborative informatics-based approach for translating HIM practices into HIT standards that was deployed in the 2015 AHIMA-IHE White paper. This approach of guiding the development of HIT standards to support HIM practices is shown on Figure 1 below. Approach IG Principles in Healthcare | Use Cases for Standards Figure 1. Approach for Guiding the Development of HIT Standards to Support HIM Practices (Source: AHIMA-IHE White Paper, 2015)
Synopsis upon the established collaboration with the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) – a collaborative of health information technology (HIT) vendors, users and associations of healthcare professionals to develop interoperability standards – AHIMA will continue working with stakeholders guiding the development of functional standards to support health information management (HIM) practices. To address user needs with HIT adoption, AHIMA has been leading the development of best practices and guidelines for information management and information governance as a part of a new globally-focused AHIMA initiative on Information Governance (IG)., The IG initiative provides an organization-wide framework for managing information throughout its lifecycle, while, supporting the organization’s strategy, operations, regulatory, legal, risk, and environmental requirements. The AHIMA IG Initiative – a key component of AHIMA's overall strategy to develop guidelines, operating rules and standards for healthcare documentation practices – served as a foundation for the AHIMA-IHE collaborative activities, which resulted in publication of the AHIMA-IHE white paper “Health IT Standards for HIM Practices” () in 2015. This document specifies HIM Business requirements for the eight AHIMA IG principles in health care (IGPHC) information availability, integrity, protection, accountability, transparency, compliance, retention and disposition. Table 1 shows AHIMA efforts for specifying business requirements completed in 2015 as a part of the AHIMA-IHE white paper as well as the 2016 effort of the AHIMA Standards Taskforce. 1. Business Requirements Specified by IG Principle Information Governance Principles: Business Requirements 2015 AHIMA-IHE White Paper 2016 Standards Taskforce Information availability Information integrity Information protection Information accountability Information compliance Information transparency Information retention Information disposition Specification of HIM business requirements is a part of the collaborative informatics-based approach for translating HIM practices into HIT standards that was deployed in the 2015 AHIMA-IHE White paper. This approach of guiding the development of HIT standards to support HIM practices is shown on Figure 1 below. Approach IG Principles in Healthcare | Use Cases for Standards Figure 1. Approach for Guiding the Development of HIT Standards to Support HIM Practices (Source: AHIMA-IHE White Paper, 2015)
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