(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 ...

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 ...