General Sources

Health Information Management Sites - HealthWeb
This site has a number of health information sites in the health administration field including organizations and a number of links to  other health information management sites.

Associations

American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
This site has information about the AHIMA, an excellent career information page, certification, job bank and other information relating to the profession of health information management.

Medical Records Institute
This organization aims to promote the use of electronic records.  Includes access to their newsletter.

Practical Issues

Classifications of Diseases and Functioning and Disabilty
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the Federal agency responsible for use of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision (ICD-10) in the United States, has developed a clinical modification of the classification for morbidity purposes. The ICD-10 is used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates, having replaced ICD-9 for this purpose as of January 1, 1999. ICD-10-CM is planned as the replacement for ICD-9-CM, volumes 1 and 2.

Medical Record Privacy
This site includes recent news relating to medical record privacy, medical privacy law and policy, documents, research, security issues and other information.

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Last update: September 12, 2005