Author: Giannangelo, Kathy; Scichilone, Rita A

Source: AHIMA Convention | AHIMA Clinical Vocabulary Mapping Meeting

Publication Date: October 15, 2005

Author: Giannangelo, Kathy

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2006

HIM professionals can invent their future through professional development goals. Last month this column outlined resources that HIM professionals can use to develop skills for the changing healthcare environment.1 This month’s column details three fundamental steps HIM professional....

Author: Garrie, Robert L.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 1999

As the Internet booms and technology proliferates, distance education, like other innovations, has become a hot property. A few years ago, forecasters predicted that by 1998, more than half of higher education institutions nationally would be involved in distance education. ....

Author: Gabriel, Aremo Ade

Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

There are two categories of health records education programs in Nigeria. These are the Certificate and the Diploma Programs.
The Certificate Program

This program is intended for secondary school leavers who do not possess the required qualifications to study the Diploma progr....

Author: Fletcher, Donna M.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 1998

The role of HIM professionals has become even more significant as our responsibilities have been recognized. According to Edna K. Huffman in the Manual for Medical Records Librarians (1941), a medical record librarian (MRL) would have been responsible for completing records and provi....

Author: Fenton, Susan H.; Joost, Elizabeth; Gongora, Jimena; Patterson, Davis G; Andrilla, C. Holly A; Skillman, Susan M

Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management

Publication Date: December 2013

Abstract


The widespread implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) has resulted in an increased need for a well-trained health information technology (HIT) workforce. The Texas HIT Workforce Development Project was initiated with an assessment of HIT employer needs as one....

Author: Fenton, Susan H.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2006

Preparing for e-HIM® will likely require education and training, as HIM professionals may encounter concepts and applications they may not have studied in their HIM programs. The following chart lists some skills and technologies used in e-HIM and lists outlets where training may be found.

Author: Eramo, Lisa A

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2015

Determining what to do with one’s life is a daunting task. Even once you’ve chosen the field of HIM, the sky is the limit in terms of the roles in which you can serve. As HIM evolves commensurate with the electronic health record (EHR), the options only continue to grow—a....

Author: Eramo, Lisa A

Source: Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: February 2015

The technical, legal, and collaborative aspects of information governance had always appealed to Kristi Lundgren, MS, RHIA. Although Lundgren, a former graduate student at the College of St. Scholastica, had studied about the importance of governing data in an electronic environment, she c....

Author: Eramo, Lisa A

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2013

The hunger for analyzed healthcare data to improve delivered care and to better meet quality measures is spurring a revolution in healthcare. Providers are demanding better health IT systems that allow HIM and data analytics professionals to sift through large amounts of data and turn it i....