Author: Petersen, Darley

Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Admission Requirements
Commercial School--2 years
Languages (Danish and English)
Economics
IT
Social studies
Commercial  

Entitles the person to apply for practice school in hospitals or at GP's.
Practice schools start every year in August and las....

Author: Plettenberg, Cheryl A; Smith, LaShunda Blanding; Hart-Hester, Susan

Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management

Publication Date: December 2013

Introduction


Adoption of health information technology (HIT) was one of the major policy priorities of the federal stimulus package contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, with more than $19 billion in federal spending allocated for widespread implementati....

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: Reeves, Mary G

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: July 28, 2016

To get information governance (IG) off the ground, there must be a leader who is willing to step up and make the case for IG by clearly identifying its benefits—the IG Value Proposition. As a first step in building the value proposition, leaders can create an IG learning environment w....

Author: Reynolds, Rebecca

Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management

Publication Date: December 2013

As the calendar and academic years are ending this is a great time to reflect on the past year and the work that has been done to advance health informatics and information management education. The Council for Excellence in Education (CEE) has published and vetted new curricula for the di....

Author: Reynolds, Rebecca

Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management

Publication Date: July 2013

I have to begin this first editorial of Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management (EPHIIM) by going back into the rich history of health information management (HIM) education to provide some insight into our evolution to this point. I must start by stating....

Author: Rollins, Genna

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2009

The success of health IT will hinge on how well it is planned and managed. Provisions in the stimulus bill that promote professional support and fund training offer exceptional opportunities to HIM programs, individuals, and the profession.



For years AHIMA and col....

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: Rollins, Gina

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2006

Today, Susan Parker, MEd, RHIA, owns Seagate Consulting, an HIM recruiting firm in Wrightsville Beach, NC, but years ago she was a newly minted HIM graduate with a job that involved quality assurance. Parker liked the position but found more satisfaction in the night class she was teaching. It....

Author: Rollins, Gina

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 2004

PPEs expose students to real-world healthcare settings. Today’s internships are changing to stay in step with the widening horizon of the HIM profession.
Professional practice experience (PPE) has been a foundation of HIM education from the earliest days of the profession, and it r....