(Editor’s Note: This guest blog was written by Jill Hoffman, managing editor of Executive Insight .)   Today marks the start of the seventh annual National Health IT Week (Sept. 10-14). The collaborative forum involving public and private healthcare constituents will work in partnership to educate industry and policy stakeholders ...

According to a study by the Department of Health Information Management at Texas State University-San Marcos, there will be a much greater need for health information technology (HIT) workers in Texas than previously anticipated. It is projected that Texas will need an additional 10,000 HIT workers for the state's $103.6 billion healthcare ...

The consortia training program, launched a year ago by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, was intended to address the need to add 50,000 more health IT professionals to the workforce as America converts to a healthcare system driven by electronic health records and a national health information exchange. Even though 82 community ...

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 ...

(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? ...

 (Editor's note: This question was originally posted on our forum. We've asked an HIM expert in the field to respond.) I am a Health Information Management major and I am in my sophomore year. I do hold an Associates Degree in Medical Information Management; I have been able to find employment in physician offices and at my current job. I am ...

After scores of debate, health care reform has finally passed. President Obama is expected to sign the bill into law today, launching a landmark overhaul of the health care system. Great-what's it mean for you? I had the same question, so I trolled around some articles and analyses on the lookout for measures that could affect the HIM ...

What a week it's been for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Aside from celebrating the first anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), officials introduced several new comrades to the public. On Feb. 17, Joy Pritts was named chief privacy officer in the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health ...

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 ...