These are
policies put in place to guide and regulate health information personnel in
carrying out their duties. These policies are geared towards:
policies put in place to guide and regulate health information personnel in
carrying out their duties. These policies are geared towards:
1.
Facilitating health and clinical research and
healthcare quality;
Facilitating health and clinical research and
healthcare quality;
2.
Promoting early detection, prevention, and
management of chronic diseases;
Promoting early detection, prevention, and
management of chronic diseases;
3.
Promoting a more effective marketplace, increased
consumer choice, and improved outcomes in healthcare services; and
Promoting a more effective marketplace, increased
consumer choice, and improved outcomes in healthcare services; and
4.
Improving efforts to reduce health disparities.
Improving efforts to reduce health disparities.
5.
Ensuring that patient information is secure and
protected;
Ensuring that patient information is secure and
protected;
6.
Improving healthcare quality, reducing medical
errors, reducing health disparities, and advancing delivery of patient-centered
medical care;
Improving healthcare quality, reducing medical
errors, reducing health disparities, and advancing delivery of patient-centered
medical care;
7.
Reducing healthcare costs resulting from
inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate care, duplicative care, and
incomplete information;
Reducing healthcare costs resulting from
inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate care, duplicative care, and
incomplete information;
8.
Improving the coordination of care and information
among hospitals, laboratories, physician offices, and other entities for the
secure and authorized exchange of healthcare information;
Improving the coordination of care and information
among hospitals, laboratories, physician offices, and other entities for the
secure and authorized exchange of healthcare information;
9.
Improving public health activities and facilitating
the early identification and rapid response to public health threats;
Improving public health activities and facilitating
the early identification and rapid response to public health threats;
