Synopsis
This new title will untangle the complicated world of healthcare vocabularies, terminologies, and classification systems! Healthcare Code Sets, Clinical Terminologies, and Classification Systems takes you into the future of healthcare, with its clear representation of new technology and the growing field of healthcare informatics. In the EHR, multiple terminologies, vocabularies, and classification systems are used to create encoded data that users can access, combine, manipulate, and share. HIM professionals need to learn these key systems to prepare for the adoption of the electronic health record. This textbook explains the components comprising the infrastructure for electronic health records, taking you beyond the standard diagnosis and procedure code sets and how they interact with emerging code sets and data standards. Discover how new terminologies, vocabularies, and classification systems work together with HIPAA standard code sets in the identification and organization of clinical data. Includes exercises, glossary, bibliography and references, an in-book answer key, and index. Foreword by James J. Cimiono, M.D., professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. The authors wish to thank Ann H. Peden, MBA, RHIA, CCS, associate professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, who served as external reviewer of the text and provided excellent suggestions for its improvement. In addition, the authors thank the following reviewers of the nursing informatics content: Joyce Sensmeier, MS, RN, BC, CPHIMS and Pawan Goyal, MD, MHA, PMP, CPHIMS.
About the Author
Kathy Giannangelo, RHIA, CCS, is a manger in practice leadership with AHIMA in Chicago. She is responsible for enhancing and improving AHIMA programs nad offerings related to clinical terminology and classification systems. Additionally, she is AHIMA's representative on issues relating to vocabulary standard development. Kathy has a comprehensive background in the field of clinical terminologies and classification, with more than twenty-five years of experience in the HIM field. Prior to joining AHIMA in 1999, she served as senior nosologist for a health information services company. Kathy has developed classification, grouping, and reimbursement systems products for healthcare providers; conducted seminars; and provided consulting assessments throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Bulgaria. In addition, she has created on-line continuing education courses on clinical terminologies. She is actively involved in the HIM profession at both the state and international levels.
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