PDF Healthcare

PDF Healthcare Committee

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.

Chairmen: Diana Helander, Adobe Systems Inc. and John Odden 

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)

• PDF Healthcare in Action
• PDF Healthcare Best Practices Guide Press Release

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

Express your support for PDF Healthcare 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

• Using PDF Healthcare - Demonstration (Dr. Thomas Lang)
• Testimonial for PDF Healthcare from Dr. Stasia Kahn, MD
• PDF Healthcare Presentation (Dr. Stephen Waldren)
• PDF Healthcare Overview in PDF
• PDF Healthcare Overview in PPT
• PDF Healthcare 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.)

Articles

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

Please provide comments on Procedure Nomenclature to Dr. Stasia Kahn, MD via email at skahn@niphysiciansforconnectivity.org before January 30, 2009.
To obtain a copy of the procedure nomenclature database, please send an email to Betsy Fanning.

To purchase and download a copy of the AIIM/ASTM BP01-2008, Best Practices - Portable Document Format - A Best Practices Guide

To download the Implementation Guide and Tools, Click here

Proposed Meeting Schedule:

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

PDF Healthcare Committee
Meeting Time: 2:00 PM EST and 11:00 PST (Monthly meetings until further notice)

• Monday, February 1, 2010
• Monday, March 1, 2010
• Monday, April 5, 2010
  

PDF Healthcare Marketing Subcommittee Meeting

Meeting Time: 1:00 PM EST and 10:00 AM PST

• Monday, January 25, 2010
• Monday, February 8, 2010
• Monday, February 22, 2010
• Monday, March 8, 2010
• Monday, March 22, 2010

PDF Healthcare Technical Subcommittee Meeting

Meeting Time: 2:00 PM EST and 11:00 AM PST

• Monday, January 25, 2010
• Monday, February 8, 2010
• Monday, February 22, 2010
• Monday, March 8, 2010
• Monday, March 22, 2010

Meeting Minutes: