• Scope
• Chairman
• Committee Documents & Meeting Schedule
• Resources
• Presentations
• Press Releases / Articles
• Publications
• Documents for Review & Comment

Scope

Responsible for "Best Practices Guide" describing attributes of the Portable Document Format (PDF) to facilitate the capture, exchange, preservation and protection of healthcare information.

Chairman

John Odden, Coto Partners

Committee Documents & Meeting Schedule

Meeting Schedule

(The meeting conference call dial-in numbers may vary.)

Teleconference dial in: 1-712-432-3900
Conference ID: 852305

PDF Healthcare Committee

The PDF Healthcare Committee has agreed to meet every other month on the first Monday of the month at 1 PM EST and 10 AM PST. The committee is taking the summer off and will resume its meeting schedule in September 2012.

Committee Documents

• Draft Meeting Minutes, September 14, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, August 31, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, August 17, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, August 3, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, July 20, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, June 22, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, June 8, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, May 18, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, May 4, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, March 23, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, March 9, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, February 23, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, February 9, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, January 26, 2009
• Draft Meeting Minutes, January 12, 2009

Resources

Health Information Aggregator

Through the generosity of A-PDF (www.A-PDF.com), we have arranged, for a limited time, to distribute "Health Information Aggregator" to solo doctors.  The reason for this little campaign is twofold: to highlight some of the more basic features of PDF for health information exchange (HIE), and to help our solo doctor friends, who are perhaps most challenged in their HIE endeavors.
This short video demonstrates some of the functionality of this utility:
http://www.screencast.com/users/MACH/folders/Jing/media/ebad486b-5235-488f-9235-2265b29c2ba7

To get your free copy go here:
http://laconicsystems.com/default.asp

Healthcare Blogs

• Hitech and More Blog
• Healthcare IT Guy
• HITSphere, Collection of Healthcare weblogs

Useful Links:

• PDF/H Implementations provided by Patcare

For more information on Healthcare Information Management, please visit AIIM's Healthcare site.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about PDF Healthcare (PDF/H)

Get Involved:

Express your support for PDF Healthcare (PDF/H) by sending a letter to Congress. We are providing you with a template letter to use. All you have to do is address it to your representative in Congress, print and sign it. Do it today! Your healthcare may count on it.

• Word version of Letter to Congress
• RTF version of Letter to Congress

Presentations

Informational Web Seminar

Want to know more about PDF Healthcare? If you missed our informational web seminar on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, you may download the slides:

• AIIM Standards Webinar: Using and Securely Exchanging Healthcare Information (PDF File)
• AIIM Standards Webinar: Using and Securely Exchanging Healthcare Information (PPT File)

Overview Presentations, Posters, and Brochures Explaining PDF Healthcare (PDF/H)

• Using PDF Healthcare - Demonstration(Dr. Thomas Lang)
• Testimonial for PDF Healthcare from Dr. Stasia Kahn, MD
• PDF Healthcare Presentation (Dr. Stephen Waldren)
• PDF Healthcare (PDF/H) Overview in PDF
• PDF Healthcare (PDF/H)Overview in PPT
• PDF Healthcare (PDF/H) Poster
• Illinois PDF Healthcare Pilot in PPT
• Illinois PDF Healthcare Pilot in PDF
• PDF Healthcare HIMSS 2009 in PDF
• PDF Healthcare Demonstration (Note: This is a large file that may take time to download. To view the file, you must use Acrobat 9 Reader. Save the file to your desktop and use Acrobat 9 Reader to view.)

Press Releases / Articles

Press Release

• PDF Healthcare in Action
• PDF Healthcare Best Practices Guide Press Release
• AIIM Publishes White Paper and Implementation Guide for Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)

Articles

• PDF Healthcare: An Important Approach for Health Information Exchange by Deborah Kohn, Principal, Dak Systems Consulting

Publications

Application of PDF Healthcare (PDF/H):

• AIIM/ASTM BP01-2008, Best Practices - Portable Document Format - A Best Practices Guide
• AIIM BP02-2008, Implementation Guide and Tools

CDA/CCD Application of PDF Healthcare (PDF/H):

• AIIM BP03-2010, PDF Healthcare Supporting the Clinical Document Architecture - a White Paper
• AIIM BP04-2010, Creating PDF Forms for the Clinical Document Architecture - an Implementation Guide

CDA Implementation Forms

• Emergency Information Sample Form in XML
• EIF Template in XML
• EIF Form
• EIF Form No Template

Documents for Review and Comment

No documents are currently under review.