Accreditation (health care facilities)

• Accreditation process
• Accreditation standards

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AHIMA

• AHIMA advocacy and policy
• AHIMA Board of Directors
• AHIMA history and mission
• AHIMA House of Delegates
• AHIMA membership
• AHIMA bylaws
• Code of ethics
• Networking
• Convention
• HIM Body of Knowledge™
• AHIMA position statements
• AHIMA strategic planning

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ARRA/HITECH

• ARRA/HITECH (compliance)
• EHR incentives
• Health information exchange (ARRA)
• ARRA regulatory issues
• Privacy and security (ARRA)
• Standards and certification (ARRA)
• Workforce and education (ARRA)

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Career

• Career opportunities
• Certification (credentials)
• Communication skills
• Consulting
• HIM Reimagined
• Job descriptions
• Job search
• Job stress
• Mentoring
• HIM professional definition
• Career profiles
• Salaries
• Skills enhancement
• Telecommuting

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Coding and classification

• Clinical vocabularies/classification systems
• Coding data quality
• Coding ethics
• ICD-10-CM/PCS
• Coding process and reimbursement
• Coding regulations

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Compliance

• Compliance programs/plans
• Enforcement (compliance)
• Legal and regulatory standards

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Consumer advocacy

• Advance directives
• Consent
• Data rights
• e-Health (portals, telemedicine)
• Patient engagement
• Personal health records
• Privacy rights (consumers)

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Disaster planning

• Disaster recovery

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Education and schools

• Education and training
• HIM credentials and certification
• Schools

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Healthcare financing and reimbursement

• Private insurance
• Public healthcare funding
• Reimbursement models
• Revenue cycle

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Healthcare infrastructure

• Healthcare delivery models
• Health disparities
• Health information exchange
• Healthcare reform
• International health care delivery
• Medical errors and patient safety
• Workforce

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Health records

• Access and retention
• Authentication (records)
• Data management
• Documentation methodologies
• Documentation requirements/guidelines
• Electronic health records
• Informatics
• Information governance
• Patient identification
• Privacy/Confidentiality/Release of information
• Security (health records)

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HIPAA

• Administrative simplification
• Business associate agreements
• Identifier standards
• Preemption (HIPAA)
• Privacy standards
• Security standards
• Transactions and code sets standards

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Legislation

• Federal laws and regulations
• State laws and regulations

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Management resources

• Change management
• Contracts
• Leadership
• Project management
• RFPs
• Staffing
• Vendors

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Organizations/Agencies

• Government agencies
• Nonprofit organizations and associations
• Regulatory and accrediting organizations
• Standards maintenance organizations

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Professional tools

• Practice briefs and toolkits
• Case studies
• Ethics/standards of practice
• Forms/templates
• Productivity/benchmarking
• Sample policies and procedures
• Vocabularies (abbreviations, acronyms, definitions, dictionaries, etc.)

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Quality management

• Patient safety
• Quality assessment/reporting
• Risk management
• Quality management tools

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Research

• Research studies
• Research tools

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Systems and technology

• Database design/management
• Electronic mail (e-mail)
• Computer hardware
• Networks
• Security (systems)
• Computer software
• Systems analysis and design

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