In anticipation of the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition to be held March 3 to 7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, ADVANCE interviewed Bonnie Cassidy, MPA, RHIA, FAHIMA, FHIMSS, senior director of HIM Innovation at Nuance and AHIMA approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer. Cassidy spent the majority of her career on the ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Julie A. Dooling, RHIT, a director of HIM Solutions for the American Health Information Management Association.) We live in a world where data and information are collected in many systems throughout our health care organizations, and most are often integrated into an EHR. Sharing information inside ...

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 ...

By day three of the 2011 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition being held this week in Orlando, FL, HIMSS announced that attendance has made history with a record number of registrants. An estimated 30,947 people are currently attending this year's conference, compared to an estimated 27,800 registrants at the 2010 event in Atlanta.  The success ...

The Association of Health Information Outsourcing Services (AHIOS) announced that Bonnie Coffey, former AHIOS president and charter member, will be presenting an education track at the 2010 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention and Exhibit in Orlando, FL, next week. Coffey's presentation, titled ''Overcoming EMR ...

With a continued focus on improving healthcare with through the use of information technology and management systems, HIMSS began on July 1 its year-long 50th anniversary celebration. Founded in October 1961 as the Hospital Management Systems Society, or HMSS, the Society held its first conference in 1962 in conjunction with the American ...

To mark the important role health information technology (HIT) plays in improving healthcare delivery in America, more than 170 partner organizations have joined together for National Health Information Technology Week, June 14-18. With the theme: One Voice, One Vision: Transforming Health and Care, the 5th Annual National Health IT Week kicked ...

Editor's note: Associate Editor Mark McGraw filed this blog post while covering HIMSS10 in Atlanta. Dr. David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology, addressed an overflowing crowd of HIMSS attendees at this morning's keynote address. The timing seemed ideal, less than 24 hours after Dr. Blumenthal led an ONC Townhall ...

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has appointed a new CEO. Alan F. Dowling, PhD, will assume leadership in January, as current CEO Linda Kloss, RHIA, CAE, FAHIMA, prepares to step down. AHIMA released the following statement this morning: The American Health Information Management Association's ...