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Let’s talk about AHIMA Strategy


2016 Environmental Scan Report

• Find it in the AHIMA

Body of Knowledge

• Important contribution of

the House of Delegates

• Helps Board of Directors

set or modify strategy

• HIM issues and trends

affecting the profession

and healthcare


Highlights from the Environmental Scan

• Changes to healthcare systems

(business/economic, technology) lead to

changes in HIM roles

• Increasing demands from consumers

• New knowledge and skill competencies

are required

• Education is changing, too


The Changing Workforce

Time to update our skills:

Leadership

Analysis

Technical

Communications


AHIMA’s Strategy


Getting Attention for IG

Discussion–IG PrinciplesAccountability

Transparency

Integrity

Protection

Compliance

Availability

Retention

Disposition

Information Governance

IGAdvisors.com

Assess The Health

of Your Organization


Information Governance

Launched this Year:

• IGHealthRate™

• IGIQ blog posts www.IGIQ.com

• Journal column “The Road to Governance”

• IG Boot camps and more!

http://www.igiq.com/

Applied Informatics

Expanding Roles

Coming Soon

Data Health Intelligence


Supporting Standards

Focus on HIT standards

to support interoperability

Public/private approach and collaboration:

• Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)

• Health Level Seven (HL7)

• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Supporting Interoperability

Technical

ProcessSemantic


Collaboration

Interoperability & Standards

• Work with ISO/TC215,

Office of the National

Coordinator

• White paper “Health IT

Standards

for HIM Practices”


Innovation

Global Initiatives


Why Go Global?

• Raises the

profession’s profile

• Puts HIM best practices

in the spotlight

• Elevates education and certifications


Global Collaboration

Leadership Development


Advancing the Workforce

The AHIMA Foundation is advancing the

workforce through education and training:

• Apprenticeship program

• Workforce and Leadership Institute

• HIM Awareness Campaign


Supporting Students and Professionals

• Scholarship program

• Veterans’ scholarships

• John Kloss Memorial Veteran Scholarship

• Global curriculum


Public Good


Talking about a Patient Identification Solution

AHIMA launches myHealthID campaign(March 20-April 19)

Seeking 100,000 signatures on petition to White House to lift the ban on discussion

of a voluntary patient safety identifier

www.ahima.org/myhealthID


Spotlight on Patient Matching

Journal of AHIMA survey:

• More than half of HIM professionals routinely

work on mitigating possible patient record

duplicates at their facility

• Of those, 72 percent work on mitigating

duplicate records weekly

AHIMA is Here for You

BoK: bok.ahima.org


AHIMA is Here for You Practice Briefs

• Putting the ICD-10-CM/PCS GEMs into Practice

(2016 update)

• Information Governance Offers a Strategic

Approach for Healthcare (2015 Update)

• Data Quality Management Model (2015 Update)

• HIM Best Practices for Engaging Consumers in

Their Overall Healthcare

• Best Practices in the Art and Science of Clinical

Documentation Improvement

http://bok.ahima.org/doc?oid=301312






AHIMA is Here for You Toolkits

• Physician Coding Toolkit

• AHIMA Information Governance Toolkit

• ICD-10-CM/PCS Implementation Toolkit

• Health Data Analysis Toolkit

• And more!

http://bok.ahima.org/PdfView?oid=301211

https://www.ahimastore.org/ProductDetailBooks.aspx?ProductID=18616




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