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Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2014

Frantic instructions to “man your battle stations” is not a command civilians and health information management (HIM) professionals are accustomed to hearing. However, that could soon change as healthcare organizations heed numerous cyber security warnings and prepare for government-plann....

Author: LaTour, Kathleen M.

Source: IFHRO Congress | AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 15, 2004

Historical Context of the HIM Profession in the US

The first baccalaureate program in health information management (originally called medical record science) in the US was established at The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN in 1934. The College has continuously offered a bachelor....

Author: Overgaard, Shauna M; Dooling, Julie A

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: August 27, 2015

Healthcare payments are shifting and the industry is in a rapid state of change. Efficiencies to render patient care as a top priority are crucial. Measuring brings efficiencies and meaning to a patient population.

High-Level Measurements


Population-based statistics....

Author: Sweeney, Loralie; Miller, Judith A.; Ludwig-Beymer, Patti

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: June 1998

Advocate Health Care, a multiple-hospital integrated delivery system in the Chicago, IL, area, recently established its Advocate Adult Asthma Clinical Improvement Team. The team undertook the data planning and analysis needed to start up a complex continuous quality improvement (CQ....

Author: Butler, Mary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 2015

American high school students approaching their senior year have good reason to envy their European counterparts who enjoy the more common experience of a “gap year” between high school and college.


A gap year, at least in Europe, is a socially accepted opportuni....

Author: Burning Glass Technologies

Source: External healthcare industry report

Publication Date: December 2014

According to this report, health informatics positions are projected to grow at twice the rate of employment overall. However, evidence suggests there is a already a shortage of qualified workers in the field.

Author: Mon, Donald T.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2010

Six years in the making, the HL7 EHR System Functional Model is now a worldwide standard.
Work on the next version’s wish list is already under way.



In November 2009 the International Organization for Standardization and Health Level Seven International (HL7....

Author: Gordon, Lynne Thomas

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2015

We must transform healthcare into a data-driven culture… because that’s where our bosses are headed.


A recent issue of Hospitals & Health Networks cited data analytics as one of the top skills that will be most critical in the next three years for healthcare....

Author: Tessier, Claudia

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: April 2010

Mobile devices are moving into healthcare with rapid speed, becoming a common health tool for both clinicians and consumers. Provider organizations face a challenge in realizing the opportunities, managing the information, and mitigating the risks.

Just a few short years ago, CIOs we....

Author: Townsend, Hilary

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2013

The emergence of electronic health records (EHRs) has necessitated the use of innovative technologies to facilitate the transition from paper-based records for healthcare providers. Natural language processing (NLP) is one technology providers are turning to for improving clinical outcomes....