(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Vicki J. Brown, director of HIM Solutions Marketing, Nuance Communications.)As we reflect on National Medical Transcription Week, May 19-25, 2013, I can't help but think about the waves of transition this industry has experienced in the past decade and lessons learned from our customers. I also ponder ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Sandra Kersten, MPH, RHIA, who is AHIMA director of HIM Solutions.) Aneesh Chopra, the former first American federal chief technology officer of the U.S., described President Obama's overall vision for innovation, or ''how will this country get its mojo back?'' within the context of ...

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) announced its ''HIM Jobs for America'' Initiative at the association's 83rd annual convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, in what the 80-year-old, 63,000-member professional society says will be a sustained effort to support American employment as well as help improve the healthcare of ...

American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) President Bonnie Cassidy recently announced that the organization is working proactively to grow jobs for members while helping to fill the estimated 50,000 new positions that will be needed to implement the U.S. health system's transition to electronic health records (EHR). AHIMA ...

The ADVANCE team likes to be inquisitive (it's part of our job, ya know). Sure, we've met you at conferences, chatted you up on the phone, but we want to know what really goes on in that head of yours. Thus, we introduced ''What Makes HIM Professionals Tick,'' a series of 10-question surveys about anything from your first job to your favorite ...

Around this time last year, I was schlepping clothes, photos and a hodgepodge of kitchenware from my college house to my mom's place, an hour away. I was in that weird place between incredible relief that classes were over and immense grief as I said goodbye to faculty and friends. Graduation was over and, quite frankly, I couldn't wait to sit on ...