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Practice Briefs
AHIMA Practice Briefs provide practical and consensus-based guidance on traditional health information management principles and evolving e-HIM® functions. Through research and professional volunteer efforts this best practice guidance is offered to AHIMA members and the healthcare industry as resources for achieving our vision for quality healthcare through quality information. The practice briefs are organized by the topics below to help you more easily identify useful guidance.
Practice Tools
AHIMA has also assembled a wealth of practice tools to assist our members and the healthcare industry in achieving our vision for quality healthcare through quality information. The following types of practice tools provide a world of important HIM practice information at your fingertips:
Leadership Models for e-HIM®
The AHIMA Leadership Models for e-HIM® provide a comprehensive framework and suite of tools that both educate and guide HIM professionals to visualize, initiate and lead specific HIM domain initiatives at institutional, regional, and national levels. The tools and techniques contained in the models aspire to help HIM professionals apply theory and technical knowledge using leadership techniques to drive institutions and the healthcare industry toward achieving the vision of e-HIM®.
Overview and Instructions
Additional Leadership Resources
Data Content Standards Leadership Model
The challenges associated with maintaining high quality data in electronic information environments require a clear understanding of data content standards and effective coordination and management of the organization’s data requirements. As experts in the management and use of health records and secondary data, HIM professionals should serve as the leaders in health care organizations and in their professional community for ensuring that data content standards are identified, understood, implemented and managed.
Data Content Standards Leadership Model in Adobe PDF
Data Content Standards Leadership Model in Microsoft Word
Legal Health Record Leadership Model
The challenges associated with maintaining legally sound health records in the hybrid and electronic information environments require clear identification of the issues, re-thinking of traditional record and information management practices and development and application of new strategies for managing health information. As experts in the requirements for health records, HIM professionals serve as the leaders in health care organizations and in their professional community for ensuring that such requirements are identified and met.
Legal Health Record Leadership Model in Adobe PDF
Legal Health Record Leadership Model in Microsoft Word
Tool Kits
Copy Functionality Tool Kit
This toolkit is designed to support and guide organizations, HIM professionals, and information technology (IT) professionals in the examination of the issues and circumstances wherein the healthcare industry needs to define, support, and execute best practices in dealing with copy technology in the EHR environment. This toolkit is intended to assist these individuals in developing their own policies and procedures surrounding this functionality.
View the tool kit in its entirety.
Or, to view sections, click the links below:
Fraud and Abuse, Clinical Trustworthiness, Education and Training, and Auditing for Compliance
Appendix A: Sample Copy Policy
Appendix B: Sample Sanction Policy
Appendix C: Sample Education Policy
Appendix D: Sample Auditing Policy
Appendix E: Sample Testing Activities
Health Information Exchange (HIE) Resource Tool Kit
AHIMA has developed a Web-based tool kit as a resource to assist individuals and organizations interested in participating in health information exchange initiatives.
HIPAA Privacy and Security Tools
More than 130 articles on HIPAA Privacy and Security are available by clicking here.
In addition, for AHIMA members there are an additional 270 articles in the FORE Library: HIM Body of Knowledge.
If you are not an AHIMA member you can join here.
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