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Protecting Confidentiality in Healthcare Education Programs
Author: Hjort, Beth M.
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2003
This practice brief has been retired. It is made available for historical purposes only.
Tale of Two Professions: Health Information Management and Biomedical/Health Informatics Converge at OHSU
Author: Hersh, William R; Valerius, Joanne D
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2013
The disciplines of health information management (HIM) and biomedical and health informatics (informatics) have many historical differences, from the focus of their work to their academic roots. HIM has most often been seen as an operational profession, typically grouped among “allie....
Medical Record and Health Information Three-Year Program in Indonesia
Author: Hatta, Gemala
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
Indonesia is located between Asia and Australia, with 17,000 islands and 210 million people. The country declared its independence in 1945 after being colonized for three and a half centuries by the Dutch (including 10 years by England) and three and a half years by Japan. Th....
Using an Audience Response System (ARS) in a Face-to-Face and Distance Education CPT/HCPCS Coding Course
Author: Harris, Susie T.; Zeng, Xiaoming
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: January 2010
Abstract
We report the use of an audience response system (ARS) in an undergraduate health information management course. The ARS converts a standard PowerPoint presentation into an interactive learning system that engages students in active participation, and it allows instructors to disp....
First Steps in Starting a Master of Science Program in Health Informatics and Information Management
Author: Harris, Susie T.; Bell, Paul D; Woodward, James Anthony
Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management
Publication Date: October 2016
Abstract
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) made a strategic decision in the 2000s to advocate for increased numbers of health information management (HIM) professionals educated at the graduate level. Many universities are developing master’s-deg....
Standards, Information Governance, Informatics: Essential Components of HIM Workforce Education
Author: Grzybowski, Darice; Orlova, Anna
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2017
As the healthcare industry has evolved from paper to the digital environment, topics such as information governance, informatics, and standards—which are at the forefront of healthcare—are becoming critical subjects when educating health information management (HIM) professiona....
Employees' Perceptions of HIM Students in Clinical Education
Author: Grooms, Krista
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 1998
Editor's note: This study is a follow up to one performed by Barbara Odom-Wesley, RRA, at Texas Woman's University. The study appeared in the April 1988 issue of the Journal of AMRA.
Designed to prepare students to perform HIM tasks and duties in the work envi....
Education is Crucial for Our Future
Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2015
The AHIMA archives contain a few examples of long-ago medical records, including a sample admission slip from 1916—nearly a century ago. As fascinating as these artifacts are, we know that the tools we use to do our jobs today will seem just as outdated some day.
Consid....
Mapping the Future of HIM Education
Author: Gordon, Leslie; Watzlaf, Valerie J.M.; Mancilla, Desla
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2013
When a profession changes, its supporting education system must change with it. Faced with the fact that the HIM industry was evolving faster than its educational training programs, the AHIMA Foundation’s Council for Excellence in Education (CEE) and its partners in education took on....
Gamification of Electronic Health Records: A Systematic Literature Review
Author: Gibbs, David; Hewitt, Barbara; McLeod, Alexander
Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management
Publication Date: April 2016
Abstract
The use of gamification and simulation in medical education is increasing in efforts to accelerate and improve learning outcomes. The purpose of this literature review is to examine game design elements for possible inclusion in an electronic health record (EHR) simulatio....
Use Case Specification
Author: Giannangelo, Kathy; Scichilone, Rita A
Source: AHIMA Convention | AHIMA Clinical Vocabulary Mapping Meeting
Publication Date: October 15, 2005
Establishing Professional Development Goals: the Means to Your Future
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....
Are HIM Programs Going the Distance
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. ....
Health Records Management Education in Nigeria
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....
HIM Then and Now
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....
Health Information Technology Employer Needs Survey: An Assessment Instrument for Workforce Planning
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....
Skills for an e-HIM Environment
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.
Learn More to Earn More ... How to Further Your HIM Education, and What It Gets You
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....
Projects Help Students Prepare for e-HIM
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....
Healthcare's Data Revolution: How Data is Changing the Industry and Reshaping HIM's Roles
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....
Basic Training: Community Colleges Tackle Six-month Health IT Programs
Author: Eramo, Lisa A
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2010
The federal government has put $70 million toward training programs to boost the health IT workforce. Colleges got to work without knowing who would enroll, who would teach, and who would offer the jobs. This month, the first students are in the seats.
This fall, more than 80 commun....
Formative Evaluation Using Checklists to Improve Research Proposals
Author: Emery, Lynnda J.; Harvey, Carolyn; Andersen, Catherine M.
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: February 2006
Abstract
Developing research proposals that protect human participants and understanding the institutional review board (IRB) approval process require high-level application of many skills. The purpose of this article is to describe how faculty can use formative evaluation tech....
Online Education: Tackle the Unknown
Author: Embrey, Brenda
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2001
Introduction
Online education is the perfect continuing education medium for health information professionals. Becoming widely accepted by many, this type of information dissemination "fits like a glove" for members of a profession for whom computer presentation of informat....
Education: The Key to HIM Transformation
Author: Eichenwald, Shirley
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 1998
Vision 2006 is pointing the way to the transformation of HIM practice. But without individual action, the vision will not bear fruit. Education and professional development are the keys to making the transition to HIM professionals' roles and responsibilities in the next century....
You Can't Succeed in Information Governance without Trying
Author: Downing, Kathy
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: February 04, 2016
Every health information management (HIM) leader has their hands full these days. All of us are working hard just to keep up. Despite the ever increasing pace at which the healthcare industry—and HIM—is moving forward, through AHIMA’s information governance (IG) pilot program, we also see....
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