HIM Issues in HIE

Auditing and Fraud Control

• “Auditing Access to and Use of a Health Information Exchange” (Connecting for Health Common Framework)
• “Fraud Control: New Tools, New Potential”

Authentication and Access to Data

• “Authentication of System Users” (Connecting for Health Common Framework)
• “Patients' Access to Their Own Health Information” (Connecting for Health Common Framework)
• “Connecting with Consumers: Web-based Health Technologies and Keeping Them Secure”

Data Exchange in a Hybrid Environment

• “Beyond Data Sharing: For Physicians, Optimism and Caution over Using Networked Patient Data”

Data Integrity

• “Linking Health Care Information: Proposed Methods for Improving Care and Protecting Privacy” (Connecting for Health)
• “Background Issues on Data Quality” (Connecting for Health Common Framework)

Getting Involved in HIE

• “Finding RHIOs: HIM Professionals Seek, Fill Roles in Emerging Health Date Networks”
• “HIM Professionals Get into the NHIN Game”

Patient Identification Methods

• The Future of Patient Identification”
• “Surveying the RHIO Landscape: A Description of Current RHIO Models, with a Focus on Patient Identification”
• “Matchmaking: An Interview with John Halamka on Linking Records Regionally”
• “Correctly Matching Patients with Their Records” (Connecting for Health Common Framework)

Privacy and Disclosure Policies

• “Writing the RHIO Fine Print: Model Policies and Specifications Speed Data Exchange Start-Ups”
• Connecting for Health Common Framework
  • “The Architecture for Privacy in a Networked Health Information Environment”
  • “Model Privacy Policies and Procedures for Health Information Exchange”
  • “Notification and Consent When Using a Record Locator Service”
  • “Correctly Matching Patients with Their Records”
  • “Breaches of Confidential Health Information”

Vocabularies and Terminologies—The Underpinnings

• "Vocabularies: Critical Software Infrastructure for Interoperability and Adoption”
• "Towards Data Interoperability: Practical Issues in Terminology Implementation and Mapping”
• “Data Standard Time: Data Content Standardization and the HIM Role”
• “Data Mapping”
  

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