American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Directory » Organizations

AHIMA is an association of health information management (HIM) professionals. It has more than 61,000 members who are dedicated to the effective management of personal health information required to deliver quality healthcare to the public.

The association was founded in 1928 with the goal of improving the quality of medical records. Today, it is committed to advancing the HIM profession in the increasingly electronic and global environment through leadership in advocacy, education, certification, and lifelong learning. 

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...governance, but little is placed on staffing needs. This is a major oversight, according to a new study from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). For the study, released Feb. 11, HIMSS and AHIMA formed a collaborative workgroup to analyze job opportunities and skill sets required in the health information exchange organization (HIO) setting. The ...
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...through these challenges. As the industry shifts and technology evolves, new roles are emerging for HIM professionals, and old roles are being rethought and redesigned. In her article, "Leading by Design," AHIMA member Elizabeth Forrestal shows how repositioning certain information management jobs can build leadership capacity in HIM departments. She suggests certain indicators that signal when job redesign may be warranted ...
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