Industry Resources

Healthcare's B2B Standards Development Organization

HIBCC is an industry-sponsored and supported nonprofit organization. As an ANSI-accredited organization, its primary function is to facilitate electronic communications by developing appropriate standards for information exchange among all health care trading partners. HIBCC plays a major advocacy and educational role in the health care industry and serves as the forum through which consensus can be reached as it electronically transforms itself for twenty-first century commerce.

US Food and Drug Administration - Information for Health Professionals

This Federal site has a section devoted to the healthcare industry - Information for Health Professionals.

National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM)

NAHAM is the only national professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in the management of patient access services in all areas of the healthcare delivery system. If your responsibilities include admissions, registration, patient finance, guest relations or other related services, you will benefit from the many resources NAHAM offers.

American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)

AHIMA is the community of professionals engaged in health information management, providing support to members and strengthening the industry and profession.

Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety

A virtual entity created in March 2005 that provides patient safety solutions to health care organizations worldwide. The mission of the center is: To continuously improve patient safety in all health care settings.

US Department of Health & Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality -Prevention of Misidentification Information

Machine-readable automatic identification (ID) systems, including bar codes, magnetic stripes, optical character recognition and radiofrequency labeling, have improved productivity and quality in diverse industries. Bar codes represent the oldest and most common of these machine-readable ID systems, and are widely used in industrial manufacturing, shipping and inventory tracking operations. Prior to bar coding, these processes would have involved keystroke entry of identification numbers, producing approximately one error in every 300 entered characters. In contrast, bar coding produces misidentification errors at rates ranging from one character in 15,000 to one character in 36 trillion...