In a competitive job market you need an edge. ADVANCE has launched a new job board with tools and features that can help you stay a step ahead of those using standard search tools. ADVANCE has been in the healthcare employment business for almost 30 years giving us a loyal client base. When top healthcare employers have a tough position to fill, ...

(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 ...

  (Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Karen Kostick, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, who is AHIMA director of HIM solutions.) How do you define coding? How do you define the present and future HIM coding professional? These are a few questions presenter Nancy Hirschl, CCS, of Hirschl and Associates, posed at the Clinical ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA 2012 by Jill S. Clark, MBA, RHIA, CHDA, who is AHIMA director of HIM solutions.)Have you ever been contacted by a credit card company inquiring about a recent large purchase and/or frequency of purchases?  If so, you are the product of a predictive model.  Predictive modeling applies ...

(Editor's note: This blog was written by Francie Dalton, the founder and president of Dalton Alliances Inc., a full-line business consultancy in Columbia, MD, specializing in the behavioral, management and communication sciences.) Once you've affirmed the need for a new leadership position, the next challenge is to implement as flawlessly as ...

(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 ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Scott Warner, MLT(ASCP), a laboratory manager in northern Maine.) When a new manager is hired, grumbling ensues. ''Now we have to break in another one!'' Your new boss is worried about motivating you and your coworkers, but the opposite is also true. How do you get a stranger to do things your way? ...

I'm throwing this one to the experts. (Pst, that's you!) For some time now there's been a question on our forum that I just can't shake. Here's the gist: The poster has fallen on some hard times--out of work, surmounting bills--and expects he'll have to file for bankruptcy in the near future. He's training to be a coder and already has a lead at ...

Recently ADVANCE reported our 2009 Salary Survey results both in our print edition and online. We looked at salary trends across professions, regions and by education levels. But when gathering information from such a great number and diverse collection of professionals, it's simply impossible to report on every interesting finding. With that ...

We got inside your heads. Not in any creepy subconscious sort of way; more like, ''Hey, you read our magazine, we see you at conferences-let's get to know each other.'' Three rounds of surveys later, we have a better idea of ''What Makes HIM Professionals Tick.'' I was pleased that 60 percent of you recycle, jealous that more than half of you ...