Author: White, Susan E; Nunn, Sandra L.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2014

The health information management (HIM) field is growing and changing at a swift pace, with HIM professionals having to navigate value-based purchasing, quality metrics, health disparity and population health studies, and a never-ending stream of Big Data. As experienced HIM professionals....

Author: Wilhelm, Carol Ann; Dixon-Lee, Claire

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2007

The shift to electronic practice has enlivened the profession and opened doors to new work settings. There remains a critical need for HIM professionals to guide and manage EHR implementations in acute care settings, but the marketplace for HIM graduates is expanding to additional markets such....

Author: Wilson, Patricia S

Source: AHIMA Convention | AHIMA Clinical Vocabulary Mapping Meeting

Publication Date: October 15, 2005

Presentation for the Clinical Vocabulary Mapping Methods Symposium
AHIMA Conference, 2005
San Diego, California
October 15, 2005 Introduction

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is no longer an option. It has become a necessity. It is essential to an enterprise to hav....

Author: Zangl-Milbrand, Evelyn

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2001

When I was hired as the assistant director of the HIM section with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (GLAHS), I faced a major challenge. Congress had recently required the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to submit claims to third-party payer....

Author: Zender, Anne

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 1998

Back in elementary school, a new lunch box and a pencil were all you needed on the first day of school. In the age of Internet-based education, however, the hardware requirements are a little more involved—but the classroom is still there.

A handful of accredited....

Author: Zender, Anne

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 1998

If you want to be an agent of change, sometimes you must first change your own life. That's a lesson Debra Harris, MA, RRA, has learned.

Harris, director of health information services at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, WA, began the process when she decided that continui....

Author: Zeng, Xiaoming; Harris, Susie T.

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: September 2005

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In this article we introduce blogs, including their brief history, their current status, and motivations for blogging. We describe how we created a course blog in one online Health information management (HIM) baccalaureate course. We describe three pedagogical purposes (online....

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Source: AHIMA Advantage

Publication Date: April 2003

If your professional career started before the late 1980s, here's a walk down memory lane that may make you smile. Remember when it took days to deliver important documents to someone across the country before there were overnight delivery services, much less faxes and e-mail? Remember when you....

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Source: AHIMA practice brief

Publication Date: September 2014

The compliance date for the implementation of ICD-10-CM/PCS is due to take effect on October 1, 2015. Currently, academic programs are in various stages of transitioning the classroom toward this new and long-awaited classification system. This practice brief is the third in a series addressing....

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Source: AHIMA

Publication Date: 1991

I. Qualifications for Initial Certification as a Registered Health Information Technician   A. The candidate shall:     1. Have earned an associate's degree from a health information technology program. The health information technology program must be accredited by the Commission o....