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Paper Categories Clinical Terms & Vocabularies Coding & Reimbursement Compliance & Regulations Conference Paper Education & Careers Electronic Records HIM Operations HIPAA ICD-9/ICD-10 Information Technology Sounding Board Telehealth Privacy and Security Workforce White Paper For Authors For Reviewers Archives About Winter/Spring 2024 Introduction In this Winter/Spring 2024 issue we are pleased to present a variety of manuscripts for you, addressing vital topics such as recording sex gender identity, ICD-11 innovation, professional ethics, patient portals, utilizing EHR data for quality improvement, the creation of a SDOH platform, and the validation of COVID-19 data in a research database. Read More Leveraging an Innovation Model to Facilitate ICD-11 Implementation Kathy L. Giannangelo, MA, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA, Michael B. Pine, MD, MBA, Christopher P. Tompkins, PhD This manuscript proposes an innovation model to facilitate the implementation of ICD-11 by the US. The model introduces ICD-11 Comprehensive Clinical Linearization, Evolution and Response, or C-CLEAR, a fully coded comprehensive clinical linearization and syntactical rules for combining these... Read MorePerspectives on Big Data and Big Data Analytics in Healthcare Egondu R. Onyejekwe PhD, Dasantila Sherifi, PhD, MBA, RHIA, and Hung Ching, PhD, DABR This qualitative study focused on better understanding the reality of big data and big data anayltics management and usage by healthcare organizations. Read MoreUnlocking Patient Portals: Health Information Professionals Navigating Challenges and Shaping the Future Jennifer L. Peterson, PhD, RHIA, CTR, and Shannon H. Houser, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA This study was designed to explore the experiences and perspectives of a group of HI directors and patient portal managers who are deeply involved in portal use and management to assess the patient portal management role that HI professionals currently play and could play in the future, develop... Read MoreUsing Electronic Health Records Data to Identify Strong Performers in Healthcare Quality Improvement Adam Baus, PhD, MA, MPH, Andrea Calkins, MPH, Cecil Pollard, MA, Craig Robinson, MPH, Robin Seabury, MS, Marcus Thygeson, MD, MPH, Curt Lindberg, MHA, DMan, Andrya Durr, PhD This case study presents an adaptable, straightforward framework for identifying positive deviance, or strong performers, within the healthcare setting and is intended for any primary care health system tracking quality measures and aiming to understand the performance of their providers, clinic... Read MoreAvailability of Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation Data: An Electronic Medical Record Review of a Catholic Healthcare System from 2012-2023 Whitney Linsenmeyer, PhD, RD, LD, Katie Heiden-Rootes, PhD, LMFT, Michelle R. Dalton, PhD, LPC, and Timothy Chrusciel, MPH The purpose of this study was to describe the reporting of SOGI patient data in a large, Catholic health system. The objectives were to: describe availability of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation data; and report the number of sexual and gender minority patients captured in the... Read MoreThe Validation Of COVID-19 Information In The Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database of Spain’s Public Health System Data by Vaccination Status Oliver Astasio, MD, PhD, Belén Castillo-Cano, MSc, Beatriz Sánchez Delgado, MSc, PharmD, Fabio Riefolo, PhD, Rosa Gini, PhD Elisa Martín-Merino, PhD, PharmD This study aims to estimate and describe the validation parameters of the collected SARS-CoV-2 disease information among vaccinated patients and their unvaccinated controls in Spain’s public health database. Read MoreLoad next 6 article(s) (82 left) Loading... Perspectives in Health Information Management is the quarterly peer-reviewed research journal of AHIMA. © Copyright AHIMA . All Rights Reserved STAY CONNECTED Twitter Facebook LinkedIn RSS Login...