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Winter/Spring 2024 Introduction

In this Winter/Spring 2024 issue we are pleased to present a variety of manuscripts for you, addressing vital topics such as recording sex gender identity, ICD-11 innovation, professional ethics, patient portals, utilizing EHR data for quality improvement, the creation of a SDOH platform, and the validation of COVID-19 data in a research database.

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Leveraging an Innovation Model to Facilitate ICD-11 Implementation

Kathy L. Giannangelo, MA, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA, Michael B. Pine, MD, MBA, Christopher P. Tompkins, PhD

This manuscript proposes an innovation model to facilitate the implementation of ICD-11 by the US. The model introduces ICD-11 Comprehensive Clinical Linearization, Evolution and Response, or C-CLEAR, a fully coded comprehensive clinical linearization and syntactical rules for combining these...
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Perspectives on Big Data and Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

Egondu R. Onyejekwe PhD, Dasantila Sherifi, PhD, MBA, RHIA, and Hung Ching, PhD, DABR

This qualitative study focused on better understanding the reality of big data and big data anayltics management and usage by healthcare organizations.

Unlocking Patient Portals: Health Information Professionals Navigating Challenges and Shaping the Future

Jennifer L. Peterson, PhD, RHIA, CTR, and Shannon H. Houser, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA

This study was designed to explore the experiences and perspectives of a group of HI directors and patient portal managers who are deeply involved in portal use and management to assess the patient portal management role that HI professionals currently play and could play in the future, develop...
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Using Electronic Health Records Data to Identify Strong Performers in Healthcare Quality Improvement

Adam Baus, PhD, MA, MPH, Andrea Calkins, MPH, Cecil Pollard, MA, Craig Robinson, MPH, Robin Seabury, MS, Marcus Thygeson, MD, MPH, Curt Lindberg, MHA, DMan, Andrya Durr, PhD

This case study presents an adaptable, straightforward framework for identifying positive deviance, or strong performers, within the healthcare setting and is intended for any primary care health system tracking quality measures and aiming to understand the performance of their providers, clinic...
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Availability of Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation Data: An Electronic Medical Record Review of a Catholic Healthcare System from 2012-2023

Whitney Linsenmeyer, PhD, RD, LD, Katie Heiden-Rootes, PhD, LMFT, Michelle R. Dalton, PhD, LPC, and Timothy Chrusciel, MPH

The purpose of this study was to describe the reporting of SOGI patient data in a large, Catholic health system. The objectives were to: describe availability of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation data; and report the number of sexual and gender minority patients captured in the...
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The Validation Of COVID-19 Information In The Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database of Spain’s Public Health System Data by Vaccination Status

Oliver Astasio, MD, PhD, Belén Castillo-Cano, MSc, Beatriz Sánchez Delgado, MSc, PharmD, Fabio Riefolo, PhD, Rosa Gini, PhD Elisa Martín-Merino, PhD, PharmD

This study aims to estimate and describe the validation parameters of the collected SARS-CoV-2 disease information among vaccinated patients and their unvaccinated controls in Spain's public health database.