American Health Information Management Association

For nursing home administrators, a license is need, but for other health administration jobs a license may only be need for specific jobs in specific states (BLS 2015.) The American Health Information Management Association also offers a certification as a Registered Health Information Administrator, which is another step forward for a healthcare administrator (AHIMA 2017.) Another important aspect of starting the journey of a new career is to look at the personality traits and skill sets that are needed for the job. Some skills that will be necessary are computer skills such as Microsoft Office and medical software, communication skills, problem solving, business, and basic understanding of healthcare laws. Personality traits needed for the job include leadership, flexibility, independence, and teamwork (My Next Move.) According to my interest profile on My Next Move, I scored the highest on social, enterprise…

Employees perceptions. These indicators assist the managers and directors in setting goals. Managers will use these areas as starting points for brainstorming, and may break them down further using techniques such as SOFT (successes, opportunities, failures and threats) and PESTLE (Political, economic, social, technological, legal and ecological). Once these areas have been broken down, the goals can be set. For example the goals may address a threat or failure, or try to exploit a success or…

The health information management (HIM) has come a long way and continues to change to keep up with the fast changes of technology. Three distinctive steps influenced development of the profession. These included the hospital standardization movement, the organization of records librarians, and the approval of formal education process and a curriculum for medical record librarians. This was summarized by Edna Huffman in an article appearing in March 1941 issue of the Bulletin of the American…

Medical Record Documentation in the Veterinary Setting A record, synonymous with other terms such as, health record or medical record, is a collection of related fields that refers to all the data accumulated regarding the patient’s visit or all of the patient’s visits. The health information professional will find that in relation to the veterinary health medical record, similarities between the veterinary delivery care setting and human health care setting extend to the approach veterinary…

1. Confidential information A patient has the right to access information that relates to their health since this could affect their other aspects of life. In any case, they may need to provide sufficient evidence that requires them to have such confidential documents as a procedure. Notwithstanding, it is evident that the regulations of the hospital should provide the data upon request although this should be after 48 hours (Skolnik, 2011). On this note, the release of information regulations…

Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom Continuum Nursing informatics is the integration of computer science and data science of nursing to recognize, manage and process significant information to cultivate knowledge that foster nursing practice (American Nurses Association, 2015). The development of innovative technology has bestowed nurses with wider ability to research quandary areas to make intelligent judgments for their patients through evidence-based practice principles. According to…

The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice was first created by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in 1986 to provide a framework to build an effective nursing curriculum. The expected outcomes of a nursing student are emphasized in the BSN Essentials once they graduate from a nursing program: core knowledge, professional values and behaviors, and role development. In addition, the BSN Essentials meet the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation for…

Both of the Data Quality Model tool from American Health Information Management Association(AHIMA) and Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) are developed to provide the secure and quality care service in their respective field. Each of them have developed their own characteristics of data quality to support the decision making application within the organization. Table: Data Quality checklist Data Quality characteristics Data quality measure Meet the data quality measures Precision …

Section A AHIMA code of Ethics and HIM role The AHIMA code of ethic is an important part of the HIM with the safeguarding of privacy and security of healthcare information. Ethical obligations are actions that reflects values, principals and ethical guidelines. AHIMA set these values and principal for conduct. It is important that the HIM. The HIM plays an important role to the daily operations management of health information and electronic health records (EHRs). They ensure a patient’s…

with how to maintain patient health information and how to keep it safe and private. The HIM (Health Information Management) industry can be traced back to the 1920s, when healthcare professionals realized that patient caring would be more effective for both the provider and the patient. Documentation became popular and was used throughout the U.S. after healthcare providers realized that it was impossible to treat the patient and have accurate medical history without documenting the…