The Data Quality Management Model of AHIMA is the business processes aimed at ensuring the integrity as well as quality of a company’s data in the process of collection, & application that includes aggregation as well as warehousing. The Data Quality Management Model is also applicable to the data analysis . The HIT professionals need to understand the governmental regulations & the accrediting standards along with the conventions in the form of practicing the parameters of procedures and policies while implementing the AHIMA Data Quality Management Model. The HIT personnel are required to practice evidence bases procedures for the same purpose . In order to successfully implement the AHIMA Data Quality Management Model, the HIT professionals are required to exchange the data as well as the interoperability. The outcome of the Data Quality Management is primarily the knowledge pertaining to the quality of the healthcare data as well as its eligibility for application at the desired purposes. The Data Quality Management Model involves continuous improvement in the quality for data throughout the organization. It also includes all of the healthcare settings as well as data collection, application, analysis, and storage. The Data Quality Management related roles and skills are not a new thing for the HIT professionals. As the use of this model becomes extensive, the data is mutually shared as well as repurposed in various innovative ways that results in making the quality of data more critical than before. HIT professionals must keep in mind that the data quality is heavily dependent upon a secure housing and effective & efficient accessibility . HIT professionals need to understand the working of this model in order to implement it with true letter and spirit.
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