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Winter 2023 Introduction The Winter 2023 issue of AHIMA’s peer-reviewed research journal, Perspectives in Health Information Management, is now available. This issue’s topics explore a range of issues, from the risk of duplicate ICD codes for orthopedic and injury related research to a quality...
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Privacy and Security Risk Factors Related to Telehealth Services – A Systematic Review

By Shannon H. Houser, Ph.D., MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA; Cathy A. Flite, Ph.D., RHIA, FAHIMA; and Susan L. Foster, EdD, MBA, RHIA, CHPS, CHC, CHPC, CIPP/US, FAHIMA

The objective of the study is to identify challenges and associated factors for privacy and security related to telehealth visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The systematic search strategy used the databases of PubMed, ScienceDirect, ProQuest, Embase, CINAHL, and Cochrane, with the search...
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Risk of Duplicate ICD Codes for Orthopedic and Injury Related Research

By Gregory Benes, BS

The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has become the international standard diagnostic classification for reporting morbidity and mortality. In 2015, the United States transitioned from the 9th to 10th Revision. The update was necessary due to major...
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Medical Scribes: Symptom or Cause of Impeded Evolution of a Transformative Artificial Intelligence in the Electronic Health Record?

By George A. Gellert, MD, MPH, MPA, FABPM

Studies have quantified various specific benefits related to the use of medical scribes, finding physician workflow and productivity improvements, with some demonstrating marginal value or detrimental impact. However, this evidence base misses a critical underlying issue with the expanding...
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Quality Assessment of the Road Traffic Health and Safety Apps with a Focus on the Five Rights of Information Management

By Hossein Aghayari; Leila R Kalankesh, PhD; Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, MD, PhD; and Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi, PhD

The expansion of mobile applications as a tool for road traffic health and safety may develop several issues from the perspective of information management. Quality assessment of these apps, especially from an information system management perspective, appears inevitable, as their possible low...
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Best Practices for the Design of COVID-19 Dashboards

By Dillon Malkani, Melina Malkani, Neel Singh, and Eesha Madan

Since 2020, health informaticians have developed and enhanced public-facing COVID-19 dashboards worldwide. The improvement of dashboards implemented by health informaticians will ultimately benefit the public in making better healthcare decisions and improve population-level healthcare outcomes....
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