IHE IT Infrastructure (ITI) White Paper – Health IT Standards for Health Information Management Practices (HIT Standards for HIM Practices)

This white paper discusses the alignment of health information management business practices (HIM practices) with capabilities of standards-based HIT (health information technology) products to support information governance in healthcare.

The document includes an overview of HIM practices related to information governance and a detailed analysis of HIM business requirements and a best practices checklist related to information availability, integrity and protection. It aims to advance the use of standardised interoperable health information and communication technology in healthcare for improving patient safety and quality of care.

Main sections:

· Goal, objectives, scope and outcome

· Methodology

· HIM professionals (actors), HIM practices (actions) and health information (products)

· Information governance

· Appendix A: HIM practice checklist

· Appendix B: HIM practice use cases

· Appendix C: Glossary

· Appendix D: HIT standards for HIM practices