Perspectives in Health Information Management is a scholarly, peer-reviewed research journal whose mission is to advance health information management practice and to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between HIM professionals and others in disciplines supporting the advancement of the management of health information. The primary focus is to promote the linkage of practice, education, and research and to provide contributions to the understanding or improvement of health information management processes and outcomes.

While the main focus of the publication is on health information management, submissions from specialists in healthcare-related disciplines related to the use of health information are welcomed. Manuscripts must be explicit in their analysis of the implications for health information management. Contributions may include research papers, case studies, evaluation and historical research, literature reviews, and commentaries on issues and practices.

Submitted formats are subject to a rigorous peer review process. This review process is designed to help authors improve their manuscripts and to ensure that only manuscripts that comply with general quality criteria, especially originality, clarity, and validity of results and conclusions, are published. AHIMA intends to document the publication's rejection rate.

White Papers

• Healthcare Terminologies and Classifications:
  An Action Agenda for the United States (June 27, 2007)
• A Standard Unit of Measure for Transcribed Reports (February 14, 2007)
• Coordination of SNOMED-CT and ICD-10: Getting the Most out of
  Electronic Health Record Systems (May 25, 2005)
  

Volume Five—2008

• Storage Media Profiles and Health Record Retention Practice Patterns
  in Acute Care Hospitals - 5:9 (June 16, 2008)
• Record Retention Practices among the Nation’s “Most Wired” Hospitals - 5:8 (June 10, 2008)
• SNOMED CT Survey: An Assessment of Implementation in EMR/EHR Applications - 5:7 (May 20, 2008)
• Perceptions Regarding Electronic Health Record Implementation among Health Information Management Professionals in Alabama: A Statewide Survey and Analysis - 5:6 (May 16, 2008)
• Evaluating Distance Learning in Health Informatics Education - 5:5 (April 24, 2008)
• Mentoring Health Information Professionals in the Department of Veterans Affairs - 5:4 (April 7, 2008)
• Utilization of Information Technology in Eastern North Carolina Physician Practices:
  Determining the Existence of a Digital Divide- 5:3 (February 13, 2008)
• Health Science Students and Their Learning Environment: A Comparison of Perceptions of
  On-Site, Remote-Site, and Traditional Classroom Students - 5:2 (February 5, 2008)
• Using Wiki in an Online Record Documentation Systems Course - 5:1 (January 30, 2008)

Volume Four—2007

• Leadership Frames and Perceptions of Effectiveness among Health Information Management
  Program Directors - 4:8 (October 4, 2007)
• Evaluation and Management Documentation and Coding Technology Adoption - 4:7 (August 27, 2007)
• The Effectiveness of ICD-10-CM in Capturing Public Health Diseases - 4:6 (June 12, 2007)
• Protective Measures for Private Health Information - 4:5 (June 1, 2007)
• Managing Multiple Projects: A Literature Review of Setting Priorities and a Pilot Survey
  of Healthcare Researchers in an Academic Setting - 4:4 (May 16, 2007)
• Coding for Quality Measurement: the Relationship between Hospital Structural Characteristics
  and Coding Accuracy from the Perspective of Quality Measurement - 4:3 (April 16, 2007)
• What Mapping and Modeling Means to the HIM Professional- 4:2 (March 30, 2007)
• Assessing the Effects of the HIPAA Privacy Rule on
  Release of Patient Information by Healthcare Facilities- 4:1 (March 23, 2007)

Volume Three—2006

• Patient Health Information Management:
  Searching for the Right Model- 3: 10 (December 12, 2006)
• Identifying Barriers to the Adoption of New Technology in Rural Hospitals:
  A Case Report - 3: 9 (October 25, 2006)
• How Secure Is Your Information System? An Investigation into
  Actual Healthcare Worker Password Practices - 3: 8 (September 27, 2006)
• Can Factors Related to Self-regulated Learning and Epistemological Beliefs Predict Learning
  Achievement in Undergraduate Asynchronous Web-based Courses? - 3: 7 (August 30, 2006)
• Assessment of Student Outcomes in Undergraduate
  Health Information Administration Programs - 3: 6 (August 15, 2006)
• Risks, Barriers, and Benefits of EHR Systems: A Comparative Study
  Based on Size of Hospital - 3: 5 (August 14, 2006)
• A New Model for the Organizational Structure of the Medical
  Records Department at Hospitals in Iran - 3: 4 (May 23, 2006)
• Self-Care Communication during Medical Encounters: Implications
  for Future Electronic Medical Records - 3:3 (April 24, 2006)
• Formative Evaluation Using Checklists to Improve Research Proposals - 3:2 (February 8, 2006)
• Enhancement of Achievement and Attitudes toward Learning of Allied Health Students
  Presented with Traditional versus Learning-style Instruction on Medical/Legal Issues
  of Healthcare - 3:1 (February 2, 2006)

Volume Two—2005

• Using MedPAR Data as a Measure of Urinary Tract Infection Rates:
  Implications for the Medicare Inpatient DRG Payment System - 2:12 (December 8, 2005)
• Development of a Public Health Assessment Tool to Prevent Lyme Disease:
  Tool Construction and Validation - 2:11 (December 6, 2005)
• From Regional Healthcare Information Organizations to a National Healthcare
  Information Infrastructure - 2:10 (December 6, 2005)
• HIPAA Compliance in U.S. Hospitals: A Self-Report of Progress Toward the
  Security Rule - 2:9 (November 10, 2005)
• Data, Information, Knowledge: A Healthcare Enterprise Case Study - 2:8 (November 8, 2005)
• ICF: Representing the Patient beyond a Medical Classification of Diagnoses - 2:7 (November 2, 2005)
• Blogging in an Online Health Information Technology Class - 2:6 (September 29, 2005)
• Improving Patient Safety through Information Technology - 2:5 (September 27, 2005)
• Relationships between Academic Program Variables and Success on the Registered Health Information Administrator Certification Examination - 2:4 (September 22, 2005)
• A Framework for Designing a Healthcare Outcome Data Warehouse - 2:3
  (September 6, 2005)
• Consumer Informatics: Elderly Persons and the Internet - 2:2 (May 9, 2005)
• Recruitment: Making Our Efforts Count - 2:1 (March 14, 2005)

• Implementing Patient Access to Electronic Health Records Under HIPAA:
  Lessons Learned - 1:11 (December 15, 2004)
• Redesign of Diagnostic Coding in Pediatrics: From Form-based to
  Discharge Letter Linked - 1:10 (December 7, 2004)
• Critical Issues in Bioinformatics and Computing - 1:9 (October 11, 2004)
• Toward a Conceptual Knowledge Management Framework in Health - 1:8 (September 20, 2004)
• The Expanding Role of the HIM Professional: Where Research
  and HIM Roles Intersect - 1:7 (September 20, 2004)
• Database Design: What HIM Professionals Need to Know - 1:6 (August 4, 2004)
• An Analysis of the Implementation and Impact of Speech-Recognition Technology
  in the Healthcare Sector - 1:5 (June 18, 2004)
• The Architecture of a Modern Military Health Information System - 1:4 (June 1, 2004)
• HIPAA Privacy Implementation Issues in Pennsylvania Healthcare Facilities - 1:3 (April 30, 2004)
• Current Coding Competency Compared to Projected Competency - 1:2 (April 22, 2004)
• Standards for the Content of the Electronic Health Record - 1:1 (January 7, 2004)

Why You Should Submit to PHIM

• PHIM is published by AHIMA, an organization with more than 75 years of expertise in the HIM field.
• Our diverse editorial board consists of leading experts in the field. Peer reviewers will advise authors on how to improve their papers.
• Electronic publication allows for an accelerated publication schedule (note that actual times needed to review and edit papers vary, and primarily depend on the quality of the paper upon first submission).
• The full text of each article is freely available on the Internet. This format ensures a wide audience with considerable visibility and impact.

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• Guidelines for Authors
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• Submission Guidelines

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