AHIMA shares recommendations from its “HIM Reimagined: Transformation Starts with You” at annual Assembly on Education/Faculty Development Institute:
Companies and professions that are reticent or slow to change can lose their way and even become irrelevant.
To evolve and meet the challenges ahead, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) introduced a draft version of HIM Reimagined: Transformation Starts with You at the Assembly on Education/Faculty Development Institute. This report is a blueprint for the way the health information management (HIM) profession and HIM education must change.
Implementing HIM Reimagined is designed to be a 10-year process with distinct phases to ensure the HIM profession is equipped for academic and professional success. HIM Reimagined expands on AHIMA’s previous initiatives which promoted the acquisition of new skills and advanced degrees to guide HIM into the future.
AHIMA invites all stakeholders to comment on HIM Reimagined. A final version is expected by early 2017.
“HIM Reimagined is designed so that HIM professionals and students can develop the skills needed to show leadership in critical growth areas such as information governance, data analytics, project management, privacy and security and a range of payment reforms,” said AHIMA CEO Lynne Thomas Gordon, MBA, RHIA, CAE, FACHE, FAHIMA. “The recommendations build education strategies and pathways for career advancement. During this comment period, we look forward to additional perspectives to help inform the final document.”
A team of leading educators and practitioners developed HIM Reimagined under the auspices of AHIMA’s Council for Excellence in Education (CEE).The CEE is a group of elected AHIMA leaders including educators, practitioners and industry consultants guiding the HIM community through improvements in education at all levels.
The report’s recommendations are driven by trends in healthcare that focus on preventative, predictive, participatory and personalized medicine reflect the shift to patient-driven healthcare.
For more on HIM Reimagined, visit http://www.ahima.org/about/him-reimagined.
