"It Takes an Association to Build a Profession": A Look at the Relationship between Health Information Management (HIM), Schools, Students, and Practicing Professionals and Its Impact on the HIM Profession


The Association of Record Librarians of North America (established 1928) was organized “to elevate the standards of clinical records in hospitals, dispensaries, and other distinctly medical institutions.”1  A few years later under the leadership of Je Harned Bufkin, a curriculum was estab....