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.

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....