Health Information Management

As Ashley Brooks(2015) has written in her article, the United States history of healthcare documentation or health information management (HIM) is long, and creation can be traced back to the 1920s. With patient information now being recorded, it was soon realized how critical to the quality and safety of patient care this proved to be. In 1928, the American College of Surgeons (ACOS) set about improving the standards of clinically created records, and established a professional association called the American Association of Record Librarians. Today it is now known as the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
Medical records were created and maintained in paper form from the 1920s, and then with advancing technology of …show more content…
Although these new developments in electronic healthcare software had brought such great success within healthcare facilities, the computer applications were limited within healthcare facility walls; transfer of electronic records and communication between healthcare facilities was not possible.
A renewed search for a viable electronic healthcare record system (EHR) was sparked in year 2000, after a wave of medical errors and patient deaths. Advancement of the EHR system was now a priority for improved clarity and accuracy of patient information and …show more content…
As sited by Silvis(2012) DPR’s national healthcare group leader, Hamilton Espinosa stated on reform realities; “To start, a pay-for-performance system will mean hospitals and health systems will be held more accountable than ever. ‘Each organization is going to have to do a better job of tracking their performance and how they provide certain services,’ Espinosa says. ‘They need their facilities to be better tools to allow them to deliver that care in a more cost-effective manner.’ Some examples can be found in smart patient room design to prevent falls, materials specified to support infection control, and infrastructure created to power electronic