This week is Health Information Professionals (HIP) Week! HIP Week is put on by AHIMA and aims to celebrate individuals and organizations who ensure health stories remain accurate, accessible, and protected.
AHIMA’s goal is to transform healthcare by connecting people, systems, and ideas. The root of this goal is health information. For HIP Week this year, AHIMA will leverage their knowledge and expertise of health information to help influence policy to benefit patients, communities, clinicians, and stakeholders. This week’s agenda focuses on:
1.) Improving the Patient Health Journey through Access to Information, Privacy, and Equity
2.) Ensuring the Quality and Integrity of Health Information
3.) Advancing Healthcare Transformation
Improving the Patient Health Journey through Access to Information, Privacy, and Equity
This pillar focus on how improving access to information for patients and their caregivers, protecting patient privacy, and advancing equity are foundational to transforming healthcare.
Ensuring the Quality and Integrity of Health Information
The second pillar focuses on the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of information. All of these are fundamental if we hope to transform healthcare because maintaining data quality begins with accurately matching a patient to information, which is the key to being able to communicate accurately and effectively.
Advancing Healthcare Transformation
Evolving consumer expectations, advancing technology, and shifts in value-based care models all rely on high quality data and quality measures. Those measures, combined with pursuing better information workflows, integrating clinical and administrative data, and improving interoperability, will drive transformation in healthcare into the future.
To learn more about HIP Week 2022 and how you can support and celebrate the HIM professionals in your life, please visit hipweek.org
Here at Extract, we know the importance of health information management and appreciate all the hard working HIM professionals that help their organizations to facilitate the accurate and efficient exchange of health information, all while keeping patient information confidential.
To learn more about how Extract is providing solutions for the three pillars discussed in this blog please visit https://www.extractsystems.com/what-we-do.
About the Author: Taylor Genter
Taylor is the Marketing Specialist at Extract with experience in data analytics, graphic design, and both digital and social media marketing. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater. Taylor enjoys analyzing people’s behaviors and attitudes to find out what motivates them, and then curating better ways to communicate with them.