AHIMA's HIM Body of KnowledgeTM Content Policy
This document was created and approved by the AHIMA Body of Knowledge team.
Content to be included in the Body of Knowledge must meet all the following criteria:
- Relevant to the practice of health information management
- Contains knowledge that will be significant and relevant to our members for at least one year or has historic value
- Source is reliable
- Copyright laws are not being violated
The Body of Knowledge will consist of the following categories of content:
- Internal (AHIMA)
- Journal of AHIMA-following categories from January 2001, with older items on a selected basis
- Practice Briefs
- Feature Stories
- Cover Story
- Coding Notes
- Word from Washington
- Working Smart
- Any series, (for example, HIPAA on the Job)
- Inside Look
- Profile
- Inserts (not vendor inserts)
- President's Message
- AHIMA Advantage-selected (by Advantage editor) articles
- Seminars (descriptive information only)
- Online Training (descriptive information only)
- Other HIM resources
- Web-only Extras or Features
- AHIMA Convention Proceedings
- White Papers
- Publications
- Relevant out-of-print books
- AOE Education Perspectives (ceased publication)
- Perspectives in Health Information Management (PHIM)
- AHIMA Models/Standards (Such as the Standards of Ethical Coding)
- Position Statements
- AHIMA Foundation or AHIMA research reports
- FORE (now AHIMA Foundation) practice solutions
- Sample job descriptions
- Sample policies and procedures
- Advocacy and Public Policy releases
- Special Studies
- E-alert excerpts
- CodeWrite
- External
- Public domain (non-copyrighted) documents or articles
- External sources, when submitted for inclusion, will be evaluated by AHIMA staff (members of whom will be determined by subject of content) for BoK suitability.
Body of Knowledge content retention schedule: | Content | Retention Period |
|---|
| Journal | Permanent |
| Advantage | Permanent |
| Seminars | One year |
| Online Training | Permanent or until training no longer available |
| Web-only Extras | Permanent |
| Convention Proceedings | Permanent |
| Publications | Out-of-print books retained as long as relevant |
| Position Statements | Permanent |
| AOE Education Perspectives | Permanent |
| AHIMA models and standards | Permanent or until revised |
| Sample job descriptions | Permanent or until revised |
| Sample policies and procedures | Permanent |
| AHIMA or FORE research reports | Permanent |
| FORE practice solutions | Permanent |
| Advocacy and Public Policy materials | Permanent |
| Special Studies | Permanent |
| E-alert Excerpts | Permanent |
| CodeWrite | Permanent |
| External content | Permanent or until revised/deleted |