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HIM as the Middleman to Informatics and Data Analytics
Author: Kadlec, Lesley; Kirby, Annessa
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: October 06, 2016
We hear so much about the amount of data available in healthcare today. But we are just beginning to understand the importance of analyzing that data to make decisions. As buzzwords like “information governance” and “data analytics” are becoming more mainstream, the analysis of data i....
HIM Baccalaureate Degree Entry-Level Competencies And Knowledge Clusters: Gap Analysis Worksheet
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA
Publication Date: February 21, 2008
HIM Curriculum Must Be Revamped to Include Information Governance
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: July 29, 2014
Data and information governance practices have been recognized by industry thought leaders as the future of the HIM profession. As healthcare continues to implement electronic health record systems and other health IT, the importance of health information as a clinical....
HIM Education: Assignment for Change
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA Advantage
Publication Date: March 2006
The EHR is making HIM academic programs do their homework. AHIMA staff and member volunteers are helping to fill in the blanks, but all members can pitch in. Here are some of the main assignments academic programs are working on and insights from some of our best teachers.
Assig....
HIM Enters an Era of “Powerful Possibilities”
Author: Kloss, Linda L
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2009
Discussing his enthusiasm for the HIM field, he said, “I am fortunate to be coming into the field at this time... I missed all the boring stuff and am getting in it when things are really happening.” I laughed and assured him that those of us who have been around for a while have n....
HIM Laboratory: Delivering e-HIM Technology to Colleges and Universities -- Virtually
Author: Kersten, Sandra K.; Saigal, Mohit; Owens, Kathie
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2006
The e-HIM® Virtual Lab offers students important exposure to core HIM technologies, with minimal IT support required.
HIM students can expect to work with health IT upon graduation. In most organizations, managing or supporting clinical documentation, reimbursement, risk assessment,....
HIM Professionals' Endurance in 21st Century
Author: Mogli, G. D.
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
Healthcare problems have haunted human society since time immemorial. Social and economic gains have a direct bearing on the status of people. Cultural progress depends upon the recognition and elimination of health problems. Health therefore is a major ingredient of public....
HIM's Professional Shake-Up Wake-Up: Moving Beyond Reality 2016 and 'Reimagining' HIM for a Quickly Changing Healthcare Industry
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2016
Health information management (HIM) and coding professionals intent on keeping their jobs and their skills relevant would do well to study the career prospects of medical transcriptionists, their healthcare documentation brethren. As providers started transitioning to electronic health rec....
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....
Hitting the Moving Target: AHIMA' s New Specialty Advancement Training and Credentials
Author:
Source: AHIMA Advantage
Publication Date: August 2002
When Jill Callahan Dennis graduated with a bachelor's of science degree in medical record administration in 1978, she was an expert when it came to confidentiality of patient information and privacy.
"I had a pretty good overview of privacy matters, and certainly a better one than professi....
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