Updated AHIMA Practice Brief

This practice brief is intended to bring awareness of the need for a united industry message of the seriousness and responsibility of handling violations by workforce members. It offers methods for sanction management within organizational policies. This guidance mirrors the breach category approach now codified by HITECH, which encourages sanctions fitting to breach motivation, whether civil or criminal in nature.

Sanction Guidelines for Privacy and Security Violations

New article on the ONC EHR incentive program

After debate, speculation, and anxiety throughout the industry, the first physicians and hospitals have embarked on stage 1 of the meaningful use program. So far… so good.

Meaningful Use: Notes from the Journey

New AHIMA practice brief: Problem List Guidance in the EHR

This new AHIMA practice brief, created by a workgroup of HIM professionals, reviews applicable standards for problem list content, examines the role of the problem list in the EHR, and provides guidance on managing problem lists.

Problem List Guidance in the EHR