Acute Myocardial Infarction

AMI

clinical

Updated 5/16/2026

Definition

A clinical condition represented in claims and EHR data by ICD-10 codes I21.x and I22.x, indicating heart attack. AMI diagnosis codes are critical in quality measure calculations such as HEDIS, risk adjustment models like HCC coding, and outcomes research datasets used by payers and ACOs.

Standard Abbreviation

AMI

Database Usage

-- Example column naming
CREATE TABLE claims (
  clm_id VARCHAR(50),
  ami VARCHAR(100),  -- Acute Myocardial Infarction (max 100 chars)
  ...
);

-- Example in SELECT
SELECT
  clm_id,
  ami as acute_myocardial_infarction
FROM claims;

Common uses in healthcare data

Risk stratification and population health analytics
CMS-HCC risk adjustment and RAF score calculation
Quality measure attribution and HEDIS reporting
Clinical data warehouse schema design
Value-based care contract performance tracking

Example database column name

ISO-11179 snake_case standard

-- Recommended column name
ami

-- Example DDL
CREATE TABLE healthcare_data (
  record_id   VARCHAR(50)   NOT NULL,
  ami          VARCHAR(100),  -- Acute Myocardial Infarction (max 100 chars)
  created_dt  TIMESTAMP     NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
);

Column names follow the ISO-11179 naming convention: lowercase, underscore-separated, using the standard abbreviation as a prefix where applicable.

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