THE CONVENTION DAILY NEWSPAPER
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AHIMA Expands
International Focus
at Convention
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Coding Alfred
Hitchcock
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Management and
Appeal Strategies
for DRG Change
Recommendations
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AHIMA Leading the
Way on National,
International
Standardization
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So Many Donuts,
So Little Time
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Premier Attendee
Spotlight
INFORMATION governance (IG) and informatics are two areas of growth and opportunity for health
information management (HIM) professionals. But
what are the next steps for individuals and the profession in taking advantage of those opportunities? Industry experts explored this question during the “
Create Your Future” panel in Tuesday’s General Session.
New Insights, Developments for IG
Kathy Downing, MA, RHIA, CHPS, PMP, senior director, information governance at AHIMA, presented an update on the association’s IG activities. “We
need to advance our responsibilities beyond HIM,”
she said. “We owe it as citizens of the healthcare ecosystem to maximize the value of information for our
patients, our physicians, our staff, and our organizations.” IG can help with all those areas, she said.
Downing announced that IGHealthRate™, the in-
dustry’s only purpose-built assessment and measure-
ment platform for IG adoption and maturity, will be
made available to qualified organizations free of
charge, thanks to a brand partnership with Immer-
sive. AHIMA’s Information Governance Adoption
Model (IGAM) framework is the authoritative con-
tent for IGHealthRate. In 2018, AHIMA will launch
its Standards for IG in Healthcare to supplement the
IGAM and expand on competency areas and matu-
rity markers. An Approved IG Consultant training
program also will begin next year, she said.
Downing also discussed the results of a new AHI-
MA survey of the industry on IG adoption and prac-
tices. The survey of more than 1,500 healthcare pro-
fessionals nationwide indicated that awareness and
use of IG practices is growing, with 53 percent of
respondents saying they have IG practices in
place or recognize the need for IG.
Finding the “In” in Informatics
Shelly Foster-Ford, RHIA, vice president
of HIM operations at Parallon Business
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Kathy Downing, senior director at AHIMA, urges the audience to look for information governance projects that
add value within their organizations.
Panel Offers Options to Create
Your Future
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