Coverage of AHIMA’s 83rd Convention and Exhibit in Salt Lake City continues in AHIMA Today. At a press conference on Monday, AHIMA announced its “HIM Jobs [...]

AHIMA’s newly published draft HIM Core Model describes a robust set of functions and opportunities open to HIM professionals in the coming 10 years. It offers a new view of HIM that addresses changing practice roles, settings, and functions intended to foster a dialog on the future of the profession.

This month the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT expects 2,280 health IT professionals to graduate from the Community College Consortia to Educate Health [...]

A new Web site launched by the National Conference of State Legislatures tracks health IT legislation introduced in states related to the Affordable Care Act. The [...]

HIM professionals should embrace sweeping changes to the healthcare industry—like EHRs, ICD-10, and ARRA—as a chance to help improve the provider and patient experience, says Bonnie Cassidy, 2011 AHIMA president, in this video interview.

Data integrity and coding consistency are not just US challenges. Health information management professionals around the world share these and other issues. The International Federation of [...]

The first group of federally developed health IT classes began on schedule in community colleges across the country recently, filled with students hoping to break into the emerging EHR implementation market.

Electronic practice is changing HIM roles and requirements, and that means job descriptions are changing, too. The online version of the August practice brief “e-HIM Practice [...]