(This guest blog was written by Kayla M. Zirbes of The College of Saint Scholastica. Zirbes is an AHIMA student advisory council member and AHIMA Hill Day 2013 participant.)As a member of the American Health Information Management Association's Student Advisory Council (SAC), I have benefited from many unique opportunities to become active within ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Matthew T. Patton, editor of ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals.) Endless nights of pouring through magazines and newspapers and clicking seemingly endlessly through career sites to land a job is no kind of fun at all. In fact, looking for a job is a job in and of itself. No fun. If you're ...

I first heard about Dave deBronkart, aka ''e-patient Dave'' about a year ago when I attended HealthCamp Philadelphia, and I've been following him ever since (literally-the man's all over Twitter). He's one of the most vocal proponents of getting patients more involved in their care, and the folks in Washington have taken notice. He's become a de ...

It's Friday--time to catch up on the news. I was hoping to share a delightful health-related story with you, but there were too many good ones, and who am I to single out? So, on to a list we go; I'll leave it up to you to pick and prune according to your preferences. CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen explores record access issues ...

I was tickled that 500 of you took the time to fill out our fun, brief survey on ''What Makes HIM Professionals Tick?'' A second installment is currently posted on our Web site, and I hope the response is as good for that one. Thanks to everyone who took the time to fill it out! Based on the findings, we can conclude the following: You're busy ...