A:  Your user ID is your 7-digit AHIMA member ID. To have your password e-mailed to you, go to the AHIMA web site, www.ahima.org/, select the Members Only tab, and click on the Update Member Profile link. Click on the link, "email me by userid and password", and type in your email address. Your password will be sent to you.

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A:  When you search by keywords, only one instance of the word has to appear in the content for it to be included in your list of results. There are several things you can do to make your results more useful.

Use the full text search on the Advanced search page and change your results options to sort by Relevancy, Descending (the most relevant items are listed first).

Use the quick search box on the Main search page, and when you retrieve your results, add additional terms using the Refine Search function. Select Full text (or any of the other options) from the drop down box and add more search terms.

The search results default to 25 per page. If you want all the results (up to 200) to appear on one long page, you can change the number in the results options on the Advanced search page.

A:  Searching by author and title is a very precise way of searching, but there are some search guidelines you must follow. The search defaults to "Contains" which means that the field must contain the words you input, in the order you enter them. Authors must be entered as last name, first name (or either, but not both, last or first name). You can enter some or all of the title, but the words entered are treated as a phrase and have to be in the correct order. Also, be sure to leave off any initial articles in the title (a, an, the).

A less precise way to search is to use the quick or full text search options. As long as the word or phrase exists in the document (in any order), the content will show up in the results.

A:  A quick search searches the entire text of all documents and returns all items containing at least one instance of the word searched. Documents are sorted by publication date. To see more relevant documents, use the Advanced search page to do a full-text search and change your sort options to Relevancy, Descending.

A:  On the results page, in the Refine Search area near the top of the page, change the first box from "Title" to "Full text", then in the box after the word Contains, type the phrase accounting of disclosures. You can continue to narrow your results by adding more criteria in the refine search area.

A:  To see all the articles from a particular issue, use the Advanced search page. Choose AHIMA journal from the dropdown list for Source, then type the first date of the month the Journal issue was published in the Pubdate from: field and the last date of the month in the Pubdate to: field.

Alternatively, from the Main search page, you can open the AHIMA folder, then open the Products/Publications folder, then click on the Journal link, and scroll through the articles until you reach the issue you are looking for. The articles are displayed in reverse order of publication, with the most recent articles listed first.

A:  To see a list of articles in alphabetical order, use the Advanced search page. Choose AHIMA journal from the dropdown list for Source, then scroll down to results options, and change the "Sort by" to Title, Ascending.

A:  On the Advanced search page, type 1/1/2002 in the "Pubdate from" field, and 12/31/2002 in the "Pubdate to" field. To limit the number of articles you will need to scroll through, type a word or phrase that you know would have appeared in the document in the full text box.

A:  While the search engine used to search the Body of Knowledge is in common use, there are some differences from other search engines, e.g. Google, that you need to keep in mind. Click on the ? icon after the Quick Search button for a few tips.

If you type query form samples as your search, it is looking for that exact phrase. You can search for documents that have all three words by typing query and form and samples, or you could search query form and samples. You probably will have better results if you just enter the phrase "query form". Remember the Communities of Practice is a wonderful place where members network and share, for example, sample forms and policies. You can use the Search function in the CoP to search for query forms.

A:  Quick search is good if you want to see whether there is any information in the BoK about a rather obscure topic. Otherwise, as the BoK grows, you may begin to find that a lot of the results are not helpful, since all the quick search function does is search through the entire text of all the documents to see whether a document contains a single instance of the word or phrase searched. The full text search area of the Advanced Search page gives you the same functionality as the quick search, but with more options. For example, you can sort your results alphabetically by title, or so that the most relevant resources appear first. You can also combine a full text search with a search for a particular author, or limit your search results to a certain publication time frame.

A:  The FORE Library staff welcomes suggestions for additional content for the BoK. There is a content policy document available in the BoK at groups/public/documents/ahima/pub_bok1_017437.html. Using the Community Resources section in any of the Communities of Practice, submit the resource, and in the description, suggest that it would be a useful addition to the Body of Knowledge.

A:  A cumulative (1998-2002) index is available in the BoK. You can find it by typing index in the title field on the Advanced search page. You can also view all Journal content in the BoK by title or date by selecting AHIMA journal from the drop-down list for source on the Advanced search page. Set the results options at the bottom of the search page to sort the list the way you want (title or publication date).

A:  Much of the information specific to a state is available in the legislation area. On the Main search page, under Browse HIM Topics, open the folder to the left of Legislation, then open the folder to the left of Laws/Regulations, then open the folder to the left of State, then click on the link for your state. Also, be sure to check out the Geographic Communities of Practice, many of which have much more information specific to their states, and you also have the opportunity to ask questions of other AHIMA members in your state, if you don't find what you are looking for.

A:  There are three ways (the first two will return more precise results).

1. On the Main search page, under Browse HIM Topics, click on the folder to the left of Research/Library Tools, then click on the folder to the left of Statistics, then click on the Cancer Registries link.
2. On the Advanced search page, in the specialty area box, choose Oncology from the dropdown list.
3. In the quick search box on the Main search page, or the full text search box on the Advanced search page, type cancer registry and hit enter.

A:  On the Advanced Search page, select Job Description from the dropdown box for the Source field. You can find additional information about job descriptions on the Main Search page. Under browse HIM topics, open the HIM Career folder, then select the Job Descriptions link.

A:  On the Advanced Search page, type abbreviations in the full text search box, then change the results options to sort to Relevancy, Descending. This will put the most relevant articles on abbreviations at the top of the list. Be sure, also, to check in the Communities of Practice, where the topic of abbreviations comes up frequently.

A:  For content specific to the physician setting, you can go to the Advanced search page, and select Physician Office from the drop down list for the Settings field.

A:  Currently, all content published in the Journal since January 2001 is available, along with selected content published prior to that. To see what is available before 2001, go to the Advanced search page, type 12/31/2001 in the "PubDate from" field, and hit enter or search.

AHIMA staff are hard at work preparing and loading much of the Journal content back to January 1998. By the end of 2003, you should be able to view this content.

A:  On the Main search page, open the folder to the left of Professional Tools, and click on the Sample Policies/Procedures link. Be sure, also, to check in the Communities of Practice, where many of your colleagues are sharing sample policies and procedures.

A:  On the Advanced search page, type advanced directives in the full text search box, then change your sort options to Relevancy, Descending. This will place the most relevant documents on advanced directives in the BoK at the top of your results list.

A:  Use the following instructions to view one of the items listed:

• Click on the Body of Knowledge item link. The screen displays the results of a search based on the item link.
• Click on a link to view the article.

When finished, click the Community Home link to return to the CoP home page.

A:  On your Personal Page, you can access and subscribe to topics in the HIM Body of Knowledge. The "My HIM Body of Knowledge" area allows you to create shortcuts to specific Body of Knowledge content, giving you faster access to BoK resources related to your areas of interest. To add a Body of Knowledge topic to the "My HIM Body of Knowledge" area of your Personal Page, click on the Subscribe link. A list of Body of Knowledge topics will appear. To see the articles and resources available for each topic, click on the link for the topic. Click the back button to return to the selection page. Select the checkboxes next to the topics you would like to display on your Personal Page. Scroll down to the bottom and click the Update button. Your topics are now saved on your Personal Page. You can unsubscribe to a Body of Knowledge topic by clicking on the Subscribe link in the "My HIM Body of Knowledge" panel and removing the checks by topics you no longer wish to see.