AHIMA Body of Knowledge (BOK) Resource Center

AHIMA curates the Body of Knowledge (BOK) to provide members with comprehensive access to professional best practices and expert guidance in health information management. You can search the BOK using the search functionality to find specific resources quickly, or explore content organized by topic areas.

Clinical Documentation Integrity

Guidance on creating and maintaining accurate clinical documentation, which lends itself to proper reimbursement, public health data, disease tracking, and more.

Coding, Compliance, and Revenue Cycle

Addresses topics such as clinical terminology and classification, social determinants of health coding, ICD-10, ICD-11, as well as CPT and physician coding.

Healthcare Data Lifecycle

Best practices on how data is captured, processed, used, stored, and managed throughout its lifecycle.

Industry Resources

Thought leadership to assist HI and healthcare professionals in their roles within the healthcare ecosystem.

Privacy and Security

Promotes topics in how patient health information is secured, created, stored, shared, and transferred.

Workforce Development

Provides resources on academic and professional development, change management, productivity, performance improvement, staff training and development, and more.

Are you unable to locate specific Body of Knowledge (BoK) resources such as practice briefs, toolkits, templates, sample forms, or other BoK materials? If so, browse the content by topic above or BoK Archive.  Please note that if you are searching for Journal of AHIMA (current or archive) articles, you should click on the following links: Current Journal of AHIMA articles or Archived Journal of AHIMA articles.

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