Cast your vote on electronic health records
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, February 23, 2004
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Cast your vote on electronic health records
With this being an election year, the people at the EHR Collaborative thought they'd get into the spirit of things. The group this month released the latest draft of a set of electronic health record (EHR) descriptors for covered entities to use in healthcare transactions. The latest version contains codes for 200 healthcare functions, compared to the 1,600 functions in the version that stakeholders rejected last fall. The refinements after the release of the first draft have made the codes easier to understand, said Clair Callan, MD, the American Medical Association's (AMA) interim vice president of professional standards, in a press release by the American Health Information Management Association.
You can vote thumbs up or thumbs down on this latest release by going to http://www.ehrcollaborative.org.
Read more about the new codes at http://www.ahima.org/press/press_releases/04.0206.cfm.
The new EHR codes were developed by Health Level 7, a private organization that develops standards for electronic healthcare transactions.
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