Archived Past Industry Events
CHIMA Spring Conference
Just Associates will be exhibiting at CHIMA Spring Meeting. Come by and see us!
Presentations:
Thursday, May 5, 2016
2:10 PM-3:10 PM MST
An AHIMA CSA Excellence Presentation
"Patient Matching – A National Landscape Tour
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA
CEO/President
Just Associates, Inc
Karen Profitt, MHIM, RHIA, MS, CHP
VP, Identity Integrity Solutions
Just Associates, Inc.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
3:45 PM-4:45 PM MST
"Strategizing Your Way to CHDA"
Julie Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA
Senior Consultant
Just Associates
CHIA Convention and Exhibit 2016
Just Associates will be exhibiting!
Exhibition Hours:
Sunday, June 5th
5:30PM–7:30PM Welcome Reception
Monday, June 6th
11:00AM–1:00PM and 4:15PM–5:30PM
Tuesday, June 7th
11:00AM– 1:00PM
Stop by and see us!
2016 NYHIMA Annual Meeting
Just Associates will be exhibiting at NYHIMA!
Exhibition Hours:
Booth #23
Monday, June 6th
10:00AM–5:00PM
Tuesday, June 7th
7:00AM– 5:00PM
Presentation:
Monday, June 6th
1:00PM-2:00PM EST
"Patient Identity in HIE"
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA
CEO/President
Just Associates, Inc
Details to come...
2016 NJHIMA Annual Meeting
Just Associates will be exhibiting and presenting, come by and see us!
Exhibition Hours:
Booth #1
Thursday, June 23th
7:15AM to 5:45PM EST
*Closed:12PM-1:30PM for break
Presentation:
Thursday, June 23th
3:30PM-4:30PM EST
"Data To Information Governance, A Vital Connection"
Details to come...
Julie A. Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA
Senior Consultant
Just Associates
2015 AHIMA Convention and Exhibition
Just Associates will be exhibiting and speaking at AHIMA!
Exhibition Hours:
September 27, 2015,
5:30–7:30 p.m.
September 28, 2015
11:30AM-4:30PM
September 29, 2015
11:30AM–4:30PM
September 30, 2015
9:00AM–12:30PM
Booth# 636
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
11:15AM - 12:15PM CST
Data Integrity Team Centralization - Benefits & Justification
Session Objectives:
Attendees will hear from HIM operational and consulting experts on how to approach and justify Data Integrity Team centralization and what is at stake if decentralized models remain. The presenters will outline processes and considerations for defining efficient EMPI Data Integrity Team workflows. Attendees will gain knowledge of best approaches for centralizing EMPI Data Integrity teams and valuable lessons learned from real life experiences.
Grasp the importance of EMPI Data Integrity team centralization and the positive impacts to operational workflows.
Appreciate the challenges, risks, benefits of creating a centralized EMPI Data Integrity Team.
Recognize the analysis and information needed to assess "current state" EMPI Data Integrity management.
Understand some EMPI data stewardship principles that should be incorporated into Data Integrity Team management.
Anticipate the potential and likely impacts of maintaining an ongoing de-centralized EMPI data integrity model.
Realize possible steps for creating and justifying a centralized DI Team structure.
Karen Proffitt MHIIM, RHIA, CHP
Vice President, Consulting Services,
Just Associates, Inc.
2015 GHIMA Annual Meeting
Whoops! We Have a Breach – What Do We Do Now!
During this session, the presenter will cover essential topics of discovery, logging and tracking breach investigation, organizational enforcement, burden of proof/documentation. Wrapping up this discussion time will be dedicated to breach prevention covering items like security, trending violations, communication, education and training, process improvement, and auditing and monitoring. The presentation will conclude with the presenter demonstrating some of the key forms in AHIMA's Breach Management Toolkit and discuss practical application in real-world situations, encouraging attendees to incorporate them at their organizations.
Susan Lucci, RHIA, CHPS, CHDS, AHDI-F
Consultant/Chief Privacy Officer
Just Associates, Inc
The Virtual Data Summit – ICD-10 and Beyond
Data Quality and Its Importance in Effective Patient Matching
Learn about the importance of data quality, accuracy and completeness in ensuring successful patient matching and why patient matching is so critical to interoperability, HIE and optimizing the quality of care for our patients. The ONC's work over the past year regarding a data quality maturity model to improve patient matching will be reviewed.
Beth Haenke Just, RHIA, MBA, FAHIMA
CEO/President
Just Associates, Inc
HIM Education Summit
Exhibition Hours:
Details to come..
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
2:30PM-4:00PM EST
Panel Discussion - Proactive MPI Management – Assuring Accurate Patient Identity
Rita Bowen MA, RHIA, CHPS, SSGB
Sr. Vice President of HIM and Privacy Officer
HealthPort
Karen Proffitt MHIIM, RHIA, CHP
Vice President, Consulting Services,
Just Associates, Inc.
Maria A. Muscarella RHIA, AVP
HIM, EMR & Privacy Officer Barnabas Health - Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
The FHIMA 2015 Annual Convention & Exhibit
The Challenges of Dirty Data – Assuring Accurate Patient Identity
The importance of accurate patient identity and patient matching is often underestimated – yet it is a "Big Deal". EMPI's are the foundational backbone required to support optimal health information exchange and quality patient care. This session will cover today's typical patient matching challenges and their root causes, operational impacts of poor MPI quality and recommended steps for mitigating issues and improving MPI data integrity and HIE integration efforts.
Karen Proffitt, MHIIM, RHIA, CHP
Vice President, Consulting Services
Just Associates
2015 NJHIMA Annual Meeting
Just Associates will be exhibiting at this event. Come by our booth #1 and see us!
Exhibition Hours:
Thursday, June 25th
7:15AM to 5:45PM EST
Closed:12PM-1:30PM for break
Friday, June 26th
8:00AM-12PM EST
CHIMA Spring Conference
Just Associates will be exhibiting at CHIMA Spring Meeting. Come by and see us!
President's Reception
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Sponsored by Just Associate, Inc.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
11:00 AM-12:00 PM MST
An AHIMA CSA Excellence Presentation
"Patient Matching for Health Information Exchange"
The presentation will include grasping the importance of accurate patient identity, appreciating today's patient matching and MPI integrity challenges, recognizing the importance of accurate patient identity in linking and sharing information, understanding operational impacts and considerations when managing MPI quality and projects, and realizing the steps that can be taken to mitigate issues and improve MPI data integrity.
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA
CEO/President
Just Associates, Inc
SGHIMA Meeting
Challenges of Dirty Data : Assuring Accurate Patient Identity
Learning Objectives:
•Grasp the importance of accurate patient matching
•Appreciate today's patient matching and MPI Integrity challenges
•Recognize the importance of accurate patient identity in linking and sharing information
•Understand operational impacts and considerations when managing MPI quality and projects
•Realize steps that can be taken to mitigate issues and improve MPI data integrity
Karen Proffitt MHIIM, RHIA, CHP
Vice President, Consulting Services
Just Associates, Inc.
HIMSS15 Annual Conference and Exhibition
HIMSS Annual Conference is the largest health IT event in the industry. Nearly 38,000 attendees came to Orlando for HIMSS14 — a new conference record! Healthcare professionals, clinicians and executives from around the world gathered to explore the value of health IT through education, networking and solutions – discovering new ways to advance innovation, make a greater impact and improve outcome.
Just Associates will be attending this informative conference. We hope to see you there!
THIMA Annual Meeting 2015
Exhibiting Hours:
March 18th 7:00AM – 5:00PM EST
March 19th 8:30AM – 1:30PM
Stop by and see us!
Thursday, March 19, 2015
3:00-4:00PM EST
Track 1 - Information Governance – IG…The New HIM…A Panel Discussion
This discussion demonstrates how basic HIM practices have evolved to become the principles of information governance programs. Attend and learn how to leverage what you know to lead IG in your organization, particularly in the areas of Accountability, Integrity, and Compliance.
Andrew Mains, Iron Mountain; Karen Proffitt, MHIIM, RHIA, CHP, Just Associates; Natalie Frady, RHIA, CPEHR, Qsource; Mary Reeves, RHIA, RegionalCare Hospital Partners, Moderator
NEMHIMA Region B Fall Meeting
"Navigating the Master Person Index"
The presentation will provide the audience with an overview of industry terminology, the challenges with MPI management, in-depth understanding of algorithms, the consequences of duplicate records, ending with a discussion on industry improvements of duplicate patient matching. The discussion will also include suggestions on improving your MPI Management today.
Megan Munns, RHIA
Program Manager
Just Associates, Inc,
Annual Leadership Conference 2014
| "Navigating the Master Person Index" Megan Munns, RHIA Program Manager Just Associates, Inc |
| Monday, October 13 9:15–10:45AM "Overcoming Hidden Barriers to Affiliate-based Health Information Exchange" The learning objectives will be appreciating alliance data exchange governance and patient matching challenges, recognizing hidden barriers to achieving optimal health information exchange and executing solutions to overcome these challenges and barriers. Mary Anne Leach Senior Vice President & CIO Children's Hospital Colorado Beth Just, MBA, RHIA,FAHIMA CEO/President Just Associates,Inc |
2014 AHIMA Convention & Exhibit
The 86th AHIMA Convention and Exhibit takes place at a critical point in health information history, making the convention a must-attend event for professionals across all healthcare segments: providers, payers, vendors, consultants, and secondary data users. Drawing health information management (HIM) thought leaders and professionals and healthcare executives from every area of health informatics and information management, this weeklong event provides comprehensive updates, education, and information on current and emerging healthcare industry issues.
Exhibition
September 28 5:30–7:30PM
September 29 11:30AM-4:30PM
September 30 11:30AM-4:30PM
October 1 9AM–12:30PM
Just Associates will be exhibiting. Our booth number is #1437.
Stop by and see us!
Sunday, September 28, 2014
1:30PM – 2PM
San Diego Convention Center – Upper Level, Room 7A
Duplicate Patient Records: Identifying Underlying Causes for MPI Data Discrepancies
This study examined over 350,000 patient records with confirmed duplicates from multiple sites. The researchers discussed the accuracy and ability of existing patient matching algorithms to detect and accommodate the variance in patient identifiers in medical records.
David Marc, College of St. Scholastica; Ryan Sandefer, College of St. Scholastica; Beth Just, Just Associates; Megan Munns, Just Associates
Monday, September 29, 2014
4:30PM-5:30PM
"Whoops! We Have a Breach. What Do We Do Now?"
The goal of this session is to help ensure that if there is a breach, our member professionals know there is a resource out there to help them through this—whether the very first time or if it has happened before.
Susan Lucci, RHIA, CHPS, CHDS, AHDI-F
Consultant, Chief Privacy Officer
Just Associates, Inc
Mary Poulson, MA, RHIT, CHC, CHPC
Regional Director of Compliance, Western Regions
MEDNAX Services, Inc
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
1:00 PM-2:00 PM
"HIM Without Walls: Building Expertise for the Future"
This session will highlight key points of the AHIMA/AHIMA Foundation workforce study that sheds light on the future of HIM across the healthcare continuum and discuss what skill sets and expertise will be needed in the future with educators, leaders, and AHIMA staff
Valerie J. M. Watzlaf, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA, Patty Sheridan, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, Wendy M. Mangin, MS, RHIA, Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, Bonnie S. Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS and Susan Parker, M.Ed., RHIA
Healthcare Documentation Integrity Conference 2014
"What All Good MTSOs Should Know About HIPAA"
MTSOs face a multitude of challenges in today's healthcare market. Shrinking profit margins due to healthcare's ongoing budget decreases and increased reliance on their EHRs add huge challenges to even the most frugal business owner. Learn lessons from a recent security breach where the FTC has stepped in. Gambling on not getting caught for failing to deploy HIPAA is like rolling the dice and risk it all.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
10:45AM-12:00PM
"Get Their Attention and Make Your Point"
When you have a great idea, it should be easy to organize your thoughts, communicate your plan and get it implemented for all the right reasons. Sounds simple, but it's not as easy as it sounds. In this session, attendees will gain insights and strategies to incorporate to help make communication work on your terms so that you can "Get Their Attention and Make Your Point!"
Susan Lucci, RHIA, CHPS, CHDS, AHDI-F
Consultant, Chief Privacy Officer
Just Associates, Inc
2014 NJHIMA Annual Meeting
"Current State in Patient Matching"
The learning objectives of this workshop will include grasping the importance of accurate patient identity, appreciating today's patient matching and MPI integrity challenges, recognizing the importance of accurate patient identity in linking and sharing information, understanding operational impacts and considerations when managing MPI quality and projects, and realizing the steps that can be taken to mitigate issues and improve MPI data integrity.
Tami Montroy, MS, RHIA, CCS
Director of Identity Integrity Services
Just Associates, Inc
73rd Annual AzHIMA Convention and Exhibition
"Overcoming the Challenges of Dirty Data – Assuring Accurate Patient Identity"
The importance of accurate patient identity and patient matching is often underestimated – yet it is a "Big Deal". EMPI's are the foundational backbone required to support optimal health information exchange and quality patient care. This session will cover today's typical patient matching challenges and their root causes, operational impacts of poor MPI quality and recommended steps for mitigating issues and improving MPI data integrity and HIE integration efforts.
Karen Proffitt MHIIM, RHIA, CHP
VP Consulting
Just Associates, Inc
Friday June 13, 2014
1:00 PM MST
"The 5 Most Important Topics for HIPAA in 2014"
Yes, ICD-10 is right around the corner and certainly is dominating the spotlight in 2014, but if HIPAA takes a backseat this year, it could be at the expense of some important focus areas that need your attention. During this presentation these 5 topics may well be the subject of what keeps us awake at night as concerns grow about the potential for a breach of PHI that we do not see. This session will focus on these issues that HIM face and offer some strategies to manage these challenges and reduce the risk of breach.
Susan M Lucci, RHIA, CHPS, CHDS, AHDI-F
Consultant/Chief Privacy Officer
Just Associates, Inc
CHIMA Spring Conference
CHIMA is a component state association of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and has over 1,000 members.
Exhibition
May 20-22,2014
Just Associates will be exhibiting at CHIMA Spring Meeting. Come by and see us!
Wednesday, May 21,2014
11:00 AM-12:00 PM MST
Information Governance
"Drowning in Data: The Driving Need for Information Governance"
The healthcare IT market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7.4% for at least the next four years. Factors driving the growth of the healthcare information technology market are the rise in pressure to cut healthcare costs, growing demand to integrate healthcare systems, meaningful use, the rise in aging population, initiatives to reduce medication errors and improve patient safety and the rise in incidences of chronic disorders. This growth significantly increases the number of source systems originating healthcare data and the volume of patient data created. Patient data is expanding 50% per year. Currently we created 60 terabytes of information annually (1,000 times more than a decade ago).
This data is being exchanged through local, regional and state health information organizations and all of this exchange is dependent on the accurate and complete information from each Data Trading Partner.
The objectives of this session will review the current state of healthcare data exchange, the ONC's Patient Matching Initiative and the necessity of all provider organizations to develop and implement a strong information governance program to mitigate data exchange issues and improve EHR data integrity.
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA
CEO/President
Just Associates, Inc
Grant Landsbach, RHIA
Data Integrity/MPI Manager
Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System
KHIMA Spring Meeting
The Kansas Health Information Management Association "KHIMA" is an organization of professionals who manage health information benefiting the health care consumer, providers & all users of clinical data.The KHIMA Spring Meeting is a continuing education opportunity for all HIOs.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
8:00 AM- 9:00 AM CST
"Drowning in Data"
This session will review the current state of healthcare data exchange, the ONC's Patient Matching Initiative and the necessity of all provider organizations to develop and implement a strong information governance program to mitigate data exchange issues and improve EHR data integrity.
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA
CEO/President
Just Associates, Inc
Thursday, April 10, 2014
1:00 PM- 2:00 PM CST
"The Hidden Challenges of Patient Portals"
Meaningful Use and patient engagement initiatives have created a strong need for provider organizations and HIOs to develop patient portals. There are a myriad of technical and policy challenges in building patient portals. The patient portal is a "release of information" function and all of the regulatory issues facing HIM when releasing patient records must be built into the security access capabilities as early adopters of these portals have learned. This session will focus on these issues and solutions to these challenges.
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA
CEO/President
Just Associates, Inc
Colorado State Health IT Advocacy Day
The fifth annual Advocacy Day, a collaborative effort between CHIMSS and CHiMA will be held in the Old Supreme Court Chambers within the Colorado State Capital building on March 12, 2014. This is a day packed with educational and networking opportunities on key state-wide HIT initiatives and the HIT economic impact in Colorado. You will also have the opportunity to meet with your legislators and tour the Capitol building.
Wednesday, March 12, 2013
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Sponsored Lunch
Just Associates will be sponsoring lunch at CHIMSS 2014. Come enjoy a great lunch and meet our representative:
Karen Proffitt MHIIM, RHIA, CHP
Vice President, Consulting Services.
Just Associates, Inc
NCHIMA Spring Conference
The epic move from IC-9 to ICD-10 will affect most all of us in Health Information, so it is an exciting time to be part of HIM. The Spring Conference 2014 is one of three learning opportunities NCHIMA puts on this year to keep our mission of providing excellence in professional development for the HIM.
"The 5 Most Important Topics for HIPAA in 2014"
ICD-10 is right around the corner and certainly is dominating the spotlight in 2014, but if HIPAA takes a backseat this year, it could be at the expense of some important focus areas that need your attention. During this presentation, these 5 topics may be the subject of what keeps us awake at night as concerns grow about the potential for a breach of PHI that we do not see. This session will focus on these issues that HIM face and offer some strategies to manage these challenges and reduce the risk of breach.
Susan M. Lucci, RHIA, CHPS, CHDS, AHDI-F
Consultant/Chief Privacy officer
Just Associates,Inc
2014 THIMA Annual Meeting and 64th Anniversary Celebration
The 2014 THIMA Annual Meeting and 64th Anniversary Celebration will take place March 5-7, 2014 in Franklin, TN. The meeting will include three different tracks on March 5th and March 6th. The tracks on March 5th will include Health Informatics & Information Technology, Data Quality and Analytics, and Emerging Careers in HIM . On March 6th the tracks will include Information Governance, Privacy and Security, and Leadership and Management. Come see and hear us at THIMA 2014!
Exhibiting Hours:
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
7:30 AM-5:00 PM CST
Thursday, March 6, 2014
8:30 AM-1:30 PM
Thursday, March 6, 2014
4:15 PM-5:00 PM CST
Information Governance
"Assuring Accurate Patient Identity"
The learning objectives of this workshop will include grasping the importance of accurate patient identity, appreciating today's patient matching and MPI integrity challenges, recognizing the importance of accurate patient identity in linking and sharing information, understanding operational impacts and considerations when managing MPI quality and projects, and realizing the steps that can be taken to mitigate issues and improve MPI data integrity.
Karen Proffitt MHIIM, RHIA, CHP
Vice President, Consulting Services
Just Associates, Inc.
HIMSS14 Annual Conference and Exhibition
At HIMSS14, the future of health IT resounds with possibilities. Join thousands of IT
professionals, clinicians and healthcare executives from around the world who, like you, are
charged with managing the effects of ACA, the requirements of ICD-10, the integration of
mobility and much more.
Just Associates will be attending this informative conference. We hope to see you there!
SePHIMA Meeting 2014
Southeastern Pennsylvania Health Information Management (SePHIMA) is an Association of individuals who are organized to improve the art and science of health information management and to improve the quality of comprehensive health services for the welfare of the public. The SePHIMA Meeting is a great educational and networking opportunity. We hope to see you there! Just Associates will be speaking here so come here us speak!
"Drowning in Data: Why Patient Matching is Important and What You Can Do About It"
This presentation will include the following, reviewing current causes of dirty data, reviewing record linking challenges, understanding why this is important (patient safety, interoperability, meaningful use compliance, etc.), reviewing examples of identity integrity challenges and issues, review and define the 3 levels of algorithms in the industry that support patient duplicate identification, providing a summary overview of recent ONC Preliminary Findings on Patient Matching, and discussing what solutions you can implement to work towards cleaner data.
Tami Montroy, MS, RHIA, CCS
Director of Identity Integrity Services
Just Associates
eHealth Initiative Government Affairs Retreat
eHealth Initiative's Government Affairs Retreat will take place on February 12, 2014 in Washington, DC. This event will bring together eHI members with officials from Congress and Government agencies. The retreat will include a panel of congressional health staffers and breakout discussion sessions highlighting five major issue areas for 2014, including Meaningful Use, Interoperability, Payment and Care Delivery Reform, Health Information Exchange (HIE), and Patient Identification and Matching. We encourage eHI members to attend to further understand eHI's policy agenda for 2014 and provide member input on key steps for moving the policy agenda forward.
Wednesday February 12, 2014
11:15am - 12:35pm EST
IV. Breakout Sessions - Guidance for eHI Policy Priorities
"Patient Identification and Matching – Leveraging Health IT and Data to Ensure Accuracy"
Accurately matching patients has been identified as a significant challenge for the past decade. To assess a strategy for progressing patient identification and matching, we ask our members for insight on solutions to patient matching and comments on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)'s patient matching study. Come join us for this discussion.
Facilitator – Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA
eHealth Initiative 2014 Annual Conference
eHealth Initiative's Annual Conference will occur January 28-29, 2014 at the Omni Championsgate in Orlando Florida. The conference will bring together leaders from key stakeholder groups, including provider, pharma, vendor, clinician, lab, consumer, etc., to discuss the future state of healthcare and the innovation needed to navigate the road to healthcare delivery transformation. The event will highlight some of the greatest best practices in healthcare innovation, and address where innovation, information and new economic and care delivery models meet the patient of the future. Participants will leave with a better sense of the pending impact of new technology and innovation.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
2:05PM-2:35PM EST
"Driving Data Governance and Data Integrity in HIOs"
This workshop will focus on understanding how to diagnose the current health of your patient record system, treat the extent of the identified problem, and prevent reoccurrence resulting in improved records that support better treatment and financial understanding.
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, Chief Executive Officer, Just Associates
Steve Kotyk, Business Development, ARGO Data
Long Island Health Information Management Association
"Overcoming the Challenges of Dirty Data"
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA,FAHIMA CEO & President
Just Associates
NG Healthcare Summit
"Meaningful Use Stage 3: Driving Data Integrity, Data Governance and Data Exchange",
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA,FAHIMA CEO & President
Just Associates
2013 AHIMA Convention and Exhibit
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Health Information Integrity Summit
In recent years, the health information exchange (HIE) has emerged as a trusted way to share patient information across hospitals and health systems and improve the quality of patient care between organizations. However, a number of HIEs have implemented dangerous data integrity practices that may not only hinder data sharing, but threaten patient safety and care. This presentation will discuss the five most dangerous data integrity practices deployed by HIEs, how organizations can avoid these dangers and steps to overcome challenges to strong data integrity. It will also discuss data integrity best practices that will streamline the identification of duplicate or overlaid records and reduce the creation of new ones.
Grant Landsbach, RHIA; Beth Just, MBA, RHIA
Lessons Learned from Strategic Alliances and the Quest for Data Integrity
Healthcare organizations are joining forces at an unprecedented rate. Data governance and data integrity face new challenges when organizations form alliances to better serve the healthcare community. Hear from experts and their first-hand experiences in facing and meeting the challenges of data governance and data stewardship as well as the downstream implications of the critical role in getting this right – the first time. Understanding the many moving yet connected parts that must be coordinated before, during and after site collaboration initiatives will help prepare HIM leaders for this rapidly growing trend.
Susan Lucci, RHIT, CHPS, CMT, AHDI-F; Melinda G. Patten, RHIA, CHPS, CDIP;
Karen Proffitt, MS, RHIA, CHP
2013 CHIMA Spring Conference
Data Integrity Challenges in the Cloud
Thursday, May 9th - 9:00am-10:00am
Speakers:
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA - CEO/President Just Associates
Mary Anne Leach - CIO, Children’s Hospital Colorado
One of the greatest opportunities to impact the reduction of health care costs and improve quality care is integrating and sharing medical images. The Colorado Telehealth Network implemented the first state-wide, cloud-based image share via a vendor neutral archive (VNA) for medical images in the fall of 2012. This is a ground-breaking activity in health information exchange and was enabled due to the strong collaboration of CIOs across the state of Colorado.
Keys to HIPAA Complaince in 2013
Thursday, May 9th - 2:10pm - 3:10pm
Speakers: Susan Lucci, RHIT, CHPS, CMT, AHDI-F Consultant, Just Associates
NCHIMA
Five Most Dangerous Health Information Exchange Practices
Speakers:
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA - CEO/President Just Associates
Grant Landsbach – RHIA
This session discusses how to identify the five most dangerous data integrity practices in HIE’s and how these practices can impact costs, patient safety and care. Attendees will also learn the best practices for maintaining clean data within the NIE.
Health Information Integrity Summit: The Quest for Safe, Usable, Quality Data in Electronic Health Records
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA
Mary Anne Leach, CHCIO
Lisa Fink, MBA, RHIA, CPHQ
One of the greatest opportunities to impact the reduction of health care costs and improve quality care is integrating and sharing medical images. The Colorado Telehealth Network will be implementing the first state-wide, cloud-based image share via a vendor neutral archive (VNA) for medical images in the fall of 2012. This is a ground-breaking activity in health information exchange and was enabled due to the strong collaboration of CIOs across the state of Colorado.
84th Annual AHIMA National Convention
Booth #107
McCormick Place
October 1-3, 2012
Chicago, IL
NE – New England Health Information Management Associations’ Spring Meeting
83rd Annual AHIMA National Convention
Learn how we can alleviate your MPI Management headaches. With Repair™, our comprehensive, outsourced MPI management service, you can leverage our fully-trained staff and never worry about employee training and turnover, or how to cover vacation and sick days again!
Visit us in Booth #325 to learn more about outsourced MPI management powered by IDMaster and our other data integrity services.
Improving Continuity of Care through Effective EMPI Management
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA and Karen Proffitt, RHIA, CHP will discuss how to avoid errors in patient identification and improve continuity of care by accurately matching people with EMPI records and by facilitating linkage to related service providers.
82nd AHIMA Convention
eth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, President and CEO, Just Associates, Inc.,
Centennial, CO, 2nd Year Director
Mary Reeves, RHIA, Administrative Director, Medical Information Services at Vanderbilt
University Hospital in Nashville, TN, 3rd Year Director
Cassi Birnbaum, RHIA, CPHQ, Director Health Information and Privacy Officer at Rady
Children's Hospital in San Diego, CA, 1st Year Director
The impact of ARRA is significant and widespread, affecting all segments of the healthcare industry. Health Information Management (HIM) in particular has been affected by ARRA-driven initiatives and challenges, among the most notable of which are regional extension centers, health information exchange (HIE), privacy and security, meaningful use and workforce funding. AHIMA Board of Directors members, Beth Just, President and CEO, Just Associates, Inc., Mary Reeves, Administrative Director, Medical Information Services at Vanderbilt in Nashville, and Cassi Birnbaum, Director Health Information and Privacy Officer at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, will provide a high level overview of these key areas, how they are reshaping healthcare and their impact on the HIM profession as a whole. The presenters will then discuss real world examples to illustrate their first hand experience at the changing face of HIM. Finally, the presenters will provide their expert insights into new and emerging roles for HIM professionals as the many facets of HITECH are executed.
CHIMA Spring Conference & Annual Meeting
| CORHIO: Statewide Health Information Exchange to Improve Health Outcomes
Beth H. Just, MBA, RHIA President, Just Associates, Inc. The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) is beginning to facilitate state-wide health information exchange to improve health outcomes. These efforts are available and encourage interactive efforts between and among health care providers of all types, public health activities and insurers. This season will address how CORHIO is developing, what services are underway, providers' experience with CORHIO and how you can be involved. |
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| WHIMA State Meeting April 30 - May 2, 2008 Elkhart Lake, WI How HL7 Messaging Affects Your EHR Beth H. Just, MBA, RHIA President, Just Associates, Inc. The number of interfaces between various health care databases continues to increase as more and more components of the medical record are automated into an EHR. But, as an HIM professional, do you know the challenges associated with transferring patient data from one system to another. Learn the basics of HL7 messages and why HIM professionals need to be involved in deciding what scenarios patient data can and should be sent from one system to another and the data mapping of these messages and how they affect the EHR. Examples of scenarios that can and do go wrong will be shown to highlight the importance of HIM involvement in interface message design and testing. This presentation will de-mystify HL7 messaging and empower the HIM professional to be more involved with their IT departments. |
THIMA State Meeting
A Critical HIM Aspect of Health Information Exchange: Patient Identity
Beth H. Just, MBA, RHIA
President, Just Associates, Inc.
Electronically linking disparate clinical data is challenging within a single healthcare organization; it is even more difficult for HIEs to achieve success exchanging data. Many HIEs start with the technology selection to be used to complete the data exchange without first defining their information exchange purposes or the business processes required to accomplish the data exchange. HIM Professionals need to be involved early in the HIE formation. We bring tremendous knowledge and skills that can help these HIEs be successful - and subsequently improve patient care for all of us. Tools have been developed to help bring a consistent message and support HIM professionals in this role. Learn about the deliverables of one of AHIMA's recent e-HIM workgroups, "HIM Principles in HIE" created to help HIM Professionals lead discussions on quality health information data exchange.
79th AHIMA Convention
Philadelphia, PA
Oct 6-11, 2007
HIE Networking Opportunity Room 103 A
Tuesday, Oct 9, 2007 Noon
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc., Anastasia Durkin MBA,RN,RHIA, Durkin & Associates, Cassi Birnbaum, RHIA, CPHQ, Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center
EHR Track
HIE: Why You Need to be at the Planning Table Room 204 A
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 8:30 AM to 9:15 AM
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc., Anastasia Durkin MBA,RN,RHIA, Durkin & Associates, Cassi Birnbaum, RHIA, CPHQ, Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center
Electronically linking disparate clinical data is challenging within a single healthcare organization; it is even more difficult for HIEs to achieve success exchanging data. Many HIEs start with the technology selection to be used to complete the data exchange without first defining their information exchange purposes or the business processes required to accomplish the data exchange. HIM Professionals need to be at the planning table. We bring tremendous knowledge and skills that can help these HIEs be successful – and subsequently improve patient care for all of us. Tools have been developed to help bring a consistent message and support HIM professionals in this role. Learn about the deliverables of one of AHIMA’s recent e-HIM workgroups, “HIM Principles in HIE” created to help HIM Professionals lead discussions on quality health information data exchange.
KHIMA State Meeting
September 20-21, 2007
Hutchinson, KS
Understanding HL7: What Every HIM Professional Needs to Know
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc.
The number of interfaces between various health care databases continues to increase as more and more components of the medical record are automated. But, as an HIM professional, do you know the challenges associated with transferring patient data from one system to another? Learn the basics of HL7 messages and why HIM professionals need to be involved in deciding what scenarios patient data can and should be sent from one system to another and the data mapping of these messages. Examples of scenarios that can and do go wrong will be shown to highlight the importance of HIM involvement in interface message design.
HIE: Why You Need to be at the Table
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc.
A primer to understanding why HIM professionals should play a role in helping define the business processes and record linking methodologies required to accomplish the successful linking of data through a Health Information Exchange (HIE).
AHIMA Summer Leadership Conference
July 21, 2007
Chicago, IL
HIE Activity: Getting to the Table
Beth Just MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc., Anastasia Durkin MBA,RN,RHIA, Durkin & Associates, Cassi Birnbaum RHIA, CPHQ, Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center
PHIMA State Meeting
May 5-6, 2008
State College, PA
Achieving and Maintaining Data Quality for EHRs and RHIOs
Beth H. Just, MBA, RHIA
President, Just Associates, Inc.
This presentation focuses on the importance of implementing Data Quality initiatives as part of a new or existing EHR deployment or RHIO initiative. If Data Quality is not addressed, both physician adoption and the effectiveness of an EHR can be compromised. Effective participation in a RHIO is also compromised as electronic health records cannot be linked across participating organizations. Real world examples from Just Associates? consulting projects are discussed.
CHIMA State Meeting
May 3-4, 2007
Denver, CO
Understanding HL7: What every HIM Professional Needs to Know
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc.
Attendees will learn about Key HL7 message types and segments and how electronic medical records are communicated from one system to another. They will be able to provide ideas on why reports or results don’t show up in an EHR. This information will help attendees to be proactive in working with their I.T. departments to resolve integration issues and will help attendees become the bridge between their clinicians and their I.T. departments.
78th AHIMA Convention
Denver, CO
Oct 7-12, 2006
Organizational Readiness for the EHR
Monday, October 9th from 3:30 - 4:15p.
Beth Just, CEO/President, Just Associates, Inc., Mary Paul, RHIA, Columbia - St. Mary's, Milwaukee, WI
The capital budget has been approved for your EHR roll out, but is your organization truly ready to assimilate use of the EHR into the everyday working lives of your physicians and staff? This presentation discusses organizational, cultural and operational changes required to realize the most benefit from your EHR investment. Follow the journey of a large, not-for-profit integrated delivery network as they successfully prepared their organization for a successful EHR implementation.
TXHIMA State Meeting
Galveston, TX
June 18-20, 2006
RHIO Panel Discussion
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc.
Beth Friedman, RHIT, The Friedman Marketing Group
Achieving and Maintaining Data Quality for EHRs
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc.; Stefanos Damianakis, PhD, Netrics; and Katherine Lusk, MHSM, RHIA, Children's Medical Center Dallas
This presentation focuses on the importance of implementing Data Quality initiatives as part of a new or existing EHR deployment. If Data Quality is not addressed, EHRs are rendered practically useless and compromise physician adoption. Effective participation in a RHIO is also compromised as electronic health records cannot be linked across participating organizations.
Improved Data Integrity Encourages Physician Adoption of EHR
Stefanos Damianakis, PhD - CEO, Netrics
Beth Just - CEO / President, Just Associates, Inc.
EHR success is severely compromised when physicians and other clinicians can't quickly and accurately locate their patients' online information. Data anomalies can create major frustrations for the clinician. Causes of data anomalies typically found in Healthcare databases will be highlighted in this presentation. Results of a study that examined the costs an organization incurs as a result of these data anomalies will be shared. Help your organization by learning strategies to identify and correct data anomalies and by identifying best practices for maintenance and prevention.
2006 CERNER North Atlantic Regional Users Group
Valley Forge, PA
May 18 - 19, 2006
EMPI Cleanup options
Beth Just, CEO/President, Just Associates, Inc
CHIMA State Meeting
Denver, CO
May 4-5, 2006
Update on AHIMA's "Patient Identification in RHIO's" Workgroup
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc.
Learn about AHIMA's workgroup results on Patient Identification in RHIOs. This workgroup surveyed over 20 RHIOs across the country to learn about their purpose, organizational structure, membership, financing and methodology for sharing patient data. Deliverables from this group included a Practice Brief on the RHIO landscape including explanation of record linking methods, detailed findings on the RHIOs surveyed and a glossary of definitions surrounding RHIOs and electronic record linking. This session will be informative for any who are interested in RHIOs or anyone who is sharing data among various databases within their own facility.
AHIMA Audio Seminar
HIM ROLE in RHIOs
Seminar Date: April 11th, 2006
Faculty: Deborah Kohn, RHIA, CHE, CPHIMS and Beth H. Just, MBA, RHIA
Gain understanding about current status of RHIOs in the healthcare landscape. This seminar will especially focus on how RHIOs affect HIM professionals. We will review the current status of RHIOs, and provide information on the role of HIM professionals in cross-jurisdictional data exchange settings. We will also discuss entry portals for HIM professionals into RHIOs via privacy/security, and patient identification methods.
77th AHIMA Convention
San Diego, CA
October 15-20, 2005
Wednesday 10/19/05
Memphis Moves Towards a Community Health Record
Donna Andrews, RHIA, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and Just Associates, Inc.; and Meg McGill, RHIA, Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare
In today's interconnected world, community-based health records make sense. Hear the trials and tribulations of the Memphis community's interoperability project and information regarding Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare's steps to link quality information across their multi-hospital system. Develop your own strategies for preparing your organization for community-based health records. Level: 2
So You Want to Be a Consultant
Thea Campbell, RHIA, Axolotl Corp.; Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc.; Monica Pappas, RHIA, MPA Consulting,; Molly Diebert, RHIA, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
This panel discussion offers attendees an opportunity to hear from professional consultants from across the continuum (independent, specialized, and big firm consulting) and to get your questions answered. You'll come away knowing what skills are required and future needs for healthcare-related consulting. Speakers provide you with the lessons they've learned in the various markets in which they specialize. Level: 1
Achieving and Maintaining Data Quality for Electronic Health Records
Stefanos Damianakis, PhD, Netrics; Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc.; and Katherine Lusk, MHSM, RHIA, Children's Medical Center Dallas
This presentation focuses on the importance of implementing Data Quality initiatives as part of a new or existing EHR deployment. If Data Quality is not addressed, EHRs are rendered practically useless and compromise physician adoption. Effective participation in a RHIO is also compromised as electronic health records cannot be linked across participating organizations.
CERNER Health Conference
Gaylord Palms Resort, Orlando, FL
Oct 9-12, 2005
EMPI Cleanup and Reducing Duplicate Records
Beth Just, CEO/President, Just Associates, Inc.; Stefanos Damianakis, CEO, Netrics
IDX Western User Group Meeting
Sainte Claire Hyatt, San Jose, CA
June 9th, 2005
TEPR 2004 - "2004 is the year of the Electronic Health Record"
Fort Lauderdale, FL
May 19 - 21, 2004
Haven't I Seen You Before? Identifying Your Patients Accurately
Friday, May 21, 2004 11:00 A.M. to 11:20 A.M.
Hear Beth Just, President of Just Associates, Inc. and Stef Daminanakis, President, CEO of Netrics, Inc. discuss data integrity issues and their impact on Healthcare organizations. You will hear recommendations for improving and maintaining the data integrity of EMPI databases and your Electronic Health Record. This presentation introduces Netrics' innovative matching algorithms and provides comparisons with traditional approaches. We will also discuss Just Associates' best practice model for optimizing data integrity.
CERNER Peer Illuminations
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CST
"Millennium EMPI: A Great Success Story"
Children's Medical Center of Dallas
Mitzi Cardenas, Director of Advanced Development for Children's Medical Center of Dallas
Katherine Lusk, MHSM, RHIA, Director of Health Information Management for Children's Medical Center of Dallas
Beth Just, CEO / President, Just Associates, Inc.
Join them for a discussion on the Cerner Millennium person-centric data model and the operational implications for effectively managing the person data stored in Cerner Millennium. Learn why a solid understanding of the Cerner Millennium data model is needed by the client to assure minimal data integrity problems, reduce overlays, and keep duplicate patient and person records to a minimum.
The following topics will be discussed:
• Millennium implementation history at Children's Medical Center of Dallas.
• Why Children's Medical Center of Dallas wanted to clean up duplicates in Millennium.
• Discussion on duplicate creation rates and causes of duplicates.
• Operational efforts to reduce duplication rate at Children's Medical Center of Dallas.
• Just Associates' consulting project, including a high level overview of deliverables.
• Understanding Millennium's person-centric data model and its operational implications.
• Results of the EMPI and the EMPI Search server's implementation on reducing duplicate creation.
2004 CERNER South Central Regional Users Group
New Orleans, LA
March 24-26, 2004
Featured presentation: "Person Management and the Electronic Health Record"
Presented by: Beth Just and Linda Bock - Just Associates, Inc.
Presentation Times: Friday March 26th 10 AM and 3 PM
This presentation focuses on Data Integrity issues; their causes and their business impact on healthcare organizations. In addition to demonstrating real world examples of data integrity problems in MPI databases, there will be a review of recommendations for improving and maintaining the integrity of EMPI databases and ultimately your Electronic Health Record.
International Federation of Health Records Organizations
November 15-19, 2010
Milan, Italy
Data Stewardship - Key to Building Transparency and Trust in the EHR
November 17, 2010
Beth Haenke Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, President and CEO of Just Associates, Inc., Centennial, Colorado
Barbara Manor, MA, RHIA, System Senior Director of Health Information Management, Exempla Healthcare, Denver, Colorado
Karen Proffitt, RHIA, CHP, EHR System Director, Exempla Healthcare, Denver, Colorado.
The EHR provides tremendous opportunity for improving both quality and efficiency of healthcare. And the research and other secondary data uses that can be attained will be enormous. However, EHRs are also creating unexpected and difficult challenges that can impede quality and efficiency improvements and that can actually cause harm. Electronic documentation challenges and their impacts on the legal health record will be discussed as will HIM's vital importance in the development of EHRs and the governance and policy development in their use. Several real-world examples will be discussed to heighten the audience's understanding of the subtleties of these issues.
Session Objectives:
• Demonstrate importance of data integrity and patient safety by walking through real stories of EHR mistakes leading to "near misses" in patient care
• Understand new HIM challenges that emerge as EHRs are implemented and utilized
• Discuss the evolving practice of HIM and emerging roles and opportunities for our profession - understand AHIMA's HIM "core model".
Audio Conference:
Organizational Readiness for the EHR
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:00 – 1:00 Eastern
UHIMA State Meeting
June 12, 2009
Salt Lake City, UT
Effective Strategy For EHR Adoption - Panel Discussion
Friday June 12, 2009
Dave Clark – Speaker of the House
Mark Probst, CIO, Intermountain Healthcare
Michael Strong, MD, CMIO, University Healthcare
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, AHIMA Board of Directors
PHIMA
June 2009
Audio Seminar
Current State of Health Data Integrity
Beth Just
NAHAM 09
Mandalay Bay
Las Vegas, NV
May 27- 30, 2009
University Hospital Special Session: Duplicate Records Roundtable Discussion
Wednesday May 27, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Vicki Wheatley, RHIA
Learn about the financial and clinical implications of duplicate / overlay records. The problem is bigger than you think. Discussion topics will include techniques to identify and resolve duplicate records as well as techniques to avoid creating them. Case studies will be presented followed by a Question and Answer session.
CHIMA State Meeting
May 13-15
Denver, CO
Project Management
May 14, 2009
Vicki Wheatley, MS, RHIA
LHIMA State Meeting
April 22-24, 2009
West Monroe, LA
HIM Involvement in Health Information Exchanges
Thursday April 23, 2009 – 1:45 PM to 3:30 PM
Beth H. Just, MBA, RHIA
President, Just Associates, Inc.
Electronically linking disparate clinical data is challenging within a single healthcare organization; it is even more difficult for HIEs to achieve success exchanging data. Many HIEs start with the technology selection to be used to complete the data exchange without first defining their information exchange purposes or the business processes required to accomplish the data exchange. HIM Professionals need to be involved early in the HIE formation. We bring tremendous knowledge and skills that can help these HIEs be successful - and subsequently improve patient care for all of us. Tools have been developed to help bring a consistent message and support HIM professionals in this role. Learn about the deliverables of one of AHIMA's recent e-HIM workgroups, "HIM Principles in HIE" created to help HIM Professionals lead discussions on quality health information data exchange.
HIMSS 09
McCormic Place
Chicago, IL
April 4-8, 2009
Identity Crisis: Solutions for Patient Identity Integrity
Tuesday, April 7, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Beth Just, MBA, RHIA
This important industry discussion is targeted at issues surrounding patient identity integrity, and how to ensure accurate association of patient data across multiple systems and organizations to safeguard patient safety and quality of care.
Objectives:
• Provide opportunity for brainstorming common solutions to universal problem of identity management
• Provide forum for exchange of information in how various sectors of healthcare currently manage patient identity
• Raise level of understanding across all sectors of healthcare in the issues surrounding patient identity management
80Th AHIMA Convention
October 11-16, 2008
Seattle, WA
Work Progress Management Track
How Technology Influences Data Integrity and Impacts Patient Safety, Privacy and Security
Monday, October 13, 2008 - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Barbara Demster, MS, RHIA, CHCQM
Senior Consultant, Just Associates, Inc.
Technology and health information exchange (HIE) have created a whole new opportunity for corruption of data. The absence of an active data integrity program in health information systems creates health information that is suspect at best and potentially harmful to patients at its worst. This session will provide insights into the pitfalls created by technology and the innate nature of data.
Health Information Exchange Track
Knock, Knock, Who's There? Authentication Requirements in Healthcare
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 - 9:15 AM to 10:15 AM
Stacie Durkin MBA, RN-C, RHIA, DURKIN & ASSOCIATES
Beth Haenke Just MBA, RHIA, Just Associates, Inc
Melanie Schattauer , St. John's Mercy Health System
Jack Obert , St. John's Mercy Health System
Is developing the data exchange relationships and agreeing to the terms of those relationships enough? HIM professionals need to understand e-authentication to assist RHIOs/HIE in securing data and ensuring identity management. This session describes the authentication requirements and the steps for conducting forensics activities in a security breach.
Health Information Exchange Track
Clinical Data Exchange: Developing the Right Stride for Hurdling the Obstacles
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 - 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM
Arthur Davidson, MD, MSPH Director, Public Health Informatics, Principal Investigator, CORHIO State and Regional Demonstration Project
Beth H. Just, MBA, RHIA
CEO, Just Associates, Inc.
The creation of Health Information Exchanges and RHIOs has exploded nationally in the past few years, but not all are achieving their objectives or staying the course. As with running hurdles, the development of a successful HIE is dependent upon developing a stride that allows the clearing of many hurdles - this stride development includes the technique (or technology), but also significant energy; those factors involving people and processes and a tenacious commitment to the fundament beliefs in what their organization is trying to achieve. Join us in learning about real world challenges in moving past writing and obtaining funding for an HIE, to actually achieving interoperability, financial sustainability and ultimately building a foundation that helps providers improve the patient care they deliver.
NJHIMA
June 19-20, 2008
Atlantic City, NJ
Understanding HL7: What Every HIM Professional Needs to Know
Beth H. Just, MBA, RHIA
President, Just Associates, Inc.
The number of interfaces between various health care databases continues to increase as more and more components of the medical record are automated. But, as an HIM professional, do you know the challenges associated with transferring patient data from one system to another. Learn the basics of HL7 messages and why HIM professionals need to be involved in deciding what scenarios patient data can and should be sent from one system to another and the data mapping of these messages. Examples of scenarios that can and do go wrong will be shown to highlight the importance of HIM involvement in interface message design and testing. This presentation will de-mystify HL7 messaging and empower the HIM professional to be more involved with their IT departments.
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New England State HIMA Annual Conference
May 18-20, 2008
Worcester, MA
The HIM Professional's Role in Health Information Exchanges
Beth H. Just, MBA, RHIA
President, Just Associates, Inc.
Electronically linking disparate clinical data is challenging within a single healthcare organization; it is even more difficult for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) to achieve success exchanging data. Many HIEs start with the technology selection to be used to complete the data exchange without first defining their information exchange purposes or the business processes required to accomplish the data exchange. HIM Professionals need to be involved early in the HIE formation as we bring tremendous knowledge and skills that can help these HIEs be successful - and subsequently improve patient care for all of us. A key to HIM professionals assisting with successful HIE formation and execution is their knowledge of clinical data exchange models and data exchange protocols such as HL7. Learn about the deliverables of AHIMA?s recent e-HIM workgroup, "HIM Principles in HIE" and the founding of the "HIE Practice Council" which were created to help HIM Professionals lead discussions on quality health information data exchange.
