Author: Rollins, Gina

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2008

Changes in technology and management are increasingly requiring—and rewarding—advanced degrees for HIM professionals.

Cheryl Hammen, RHIA, has been in the HIM profession since 1979. She has gained a lot of expertise in those years, but recently she decided to pursue a mas....

Author: LaTour, Kathleen M.

Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Historical Context of the HIM Profession in the US

The first baccalaureate program in health information management (originally called medical record science) in the US was established at The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN in 1934. The College has continuously offered a bachelor....

Author: Dolezel, Diane; Clisbee, Mary; McLeod, Alexander

Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management

Publication Date: October 2016

Abstract


The purpose of this study was to examine first-year students’ experiences in a new Master of Health Information Management (MHIM) program. The first year in a college program is challenging for students. Specifically, first-year students’ attrition from MHIM programs is a....

Author: Clarke, Zada; Hill, Angela M.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2006

Professional development plans help you chart your professional course, then help you steer there. Keep them simple and revisit them regularly.
We remember being told a long time ago that for a sailboat that has no port in mind, there is no such thing as a fair wind.

If you don....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA Advantage

Publication Date: December 2008

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: Prince, Lori H.

Source: Educational Perspectives (AOE)

Publication Date: May 02, 2003

Abstract: Current trends in health information management require the health information administration (HIA) student to have a strong knowledge base in the biomedical sciences. AHIMA's Council on Accreditation requires that course content in pharmacology be included in the knowledge cluster c....

Author: Thomas, Shirlyn; Tyson, Carla

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 1998

It is obvious that the HIM field will be affected by the implementation of the computerized patient record, but what can HIM professionals do to prepare? To effectively impact healthcare delivery of the near future, HIM practitioners must be computer literate and feel at ease with co....

Author: Dixon-Lee, Claire

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 1999

In October, the 1999 AHIMA House of Delegates will consider a proposal to officially change the name of two AHIMA credentials. The proposal is the result of several years of analysis, member input, and review of more than 1000 potential certification titles, as well as the work of cons....

Author: Schraffenberger, Lou Ann

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: May 1998

This article describes a job analysis performed to serve as the basis for documenting the content validity of the hospital-based certified coding specialist (CCS) examination for AHIMA. The purpose of this study was to determine and comprehensively describe the job of the hospital-ba....