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.

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....

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....

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....

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,....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....