AHIMA announces project to develop, standardize healthcare IT for long-term care providers
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, January 14, 2008
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The American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) Foundation of Research and Education (FORE) announced January 3 that a new project is underway that will increase and standardize EHR and healthcare information technology (HIT) use by long-term care providers, according to an AHIMA press release.
The project will enable post-acute and long-term care vendors and providers to develop and implement EHRs and HIT products that will be functional in the emerging interoperable nationwide health information network, according to AHIMA.
"The implementation guidance developed for the exchange of standardized assessments and patient summaries will guide vendors, providers, and policy makers on how to apply standards to assessments and patient summary information, and use standards to support the exchange of this information," according to the press release.
To read the press release, click here.
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