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Professional Practice Experience: Internships open the door to Real-World Lessons
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2009
For senior HIM students, a professional practice internship offers real-life experience and a firsthand look at future careers. But PPEs require sites that volunteer as hosts and HIM professionals to serve as mentors.
Into the Laboratory: HIM Virtual Lab Offers Students EHR Experience
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2008
Students often learn about health IT by reading books and looking over someone’s shoulder. Now schools can offer hands-on access to IT programs provided over the Internet.
The scavenger hunt had begun.
Scanning the list of items on her worksheet, Lois Hitchcock carefu....
Help Wanted: Schools Struggle Placing Students in PPEs
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2009
Well-trained students make well-trained new hires, which is why professional practice experiences are an important part of HIM education. However, PPE coordinators say it is getting harder to place students in today’s hectic workplace. Yet the benefits, they say, are there for e....
Keeping HIPAA Education Fresh
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2009
Get hip with HIPAA.
That’s just one tagline attached to Sharp Healthcare’s HIPAA education modules. Photos from the age of hip—the late 1960s and early 1970s—permeate the online HIPAA training modules. Musicians Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan and era-TV icons like the....
Tips for Trainers
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2007
The time had come in the physicians’ meeting to discuss HIM issues, and Wilson was in charge of bringing the room up to speed.
Wilson, then the coding quality manager at Charleston, SC-based Roper St. Francis Healthcare, was new to public speaking and training. For a moment,....
Standardized Testing: HIT Pro Exams Test Competencies in Health IT Roles
Author: Crawford, Mark
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2011
Healthcare needs more than EHRs, it needs people who can implement and maintain them. New federally sponsored health IT exams set workforce competencies, helping job seekers demonstrate knowledge and employers benchmark qualifications.
As the US moves toward industry-wide adoption of....
Innovations and Developments in Postgraduate Health Information Management Education: Experiences from the University of Sydney
Author: Craig, Janelle; Watson, Phyllis J.
Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
Commencing in 2001, the School of Health Information Management (HIM) at the University of Sydney introduced five postgraduate coursework programs to its existing curriculum in undergraduate health information management education. One of these programs was the Master of Hea....
Competencies for Global Health Informatics Education: Leveraging the US Experience
Author: Cortelyou-Ward, Kendall; Kahlon, Summerpal; Noblin, Alice
Source: Educational Perspectives in Health Informatics and Information Management
Publication Date: December 2013
Abstract
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has encouraged unprecedented expansion of the health information technology (HIT) industry and offers strong employment opportunities for those that qualify. However, academic institutions have been slow to address the changing n....
Assessment of Success on the RHIA Certification Examination: A Comparison of Baccalaureate Program Graduates and Postbaccalaureate Certificate Program Graduates
Author: Condon, Jim; Barefield, Amanda
Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management
Publication Date: October 2012
Abstract
The demand for registered health information administrators continues to outpace the available supply of credentialed graduates. One solution to address this shortfall has been the availability of postbaccalaureate certificate programs. A health information administration departm....
Personnel Separating from the Armed Forces: an Excellent Source of HIM Students
Author: Condon, Jim
Source: Educational Perspectives (AOE)
Publication Date: July 02, 2000
Abstract: In the coming years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the demand for health information management (HIM) professionals will exceed the supply. Many prospective students gravitate to other, more well-known fields, and many HIM programs struggle to recruit enough qualified....
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