Tag Archives: Health informatics

Master of Health Information Management Students’ First-Year Experiences: A Case Study

The purpose of this study was to examine first-year students’ experiences in a new Master of Health Information Management (MHIM) program. The first year in a college program is challenging for students. Specifically, first-year students’ attrition from MHIM programs is an area of growing concern because the demand for health information management (HIM) professionals with advanced degrees is growing faster than the supply of graduates.
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Robotic Telepresence in a Medical Intensive Care Unit—Clinicians’ Perceptions

2015 Summer
Robotic telepresence has been used for outsourcing of healthcare services for more than a decade; however, its use within an academic medical department is not yet widespread. Intensive care unit (ICU) robots can be used to increase access to off-site supervising physicians and other specialists, reducing possible wait time for difficult admissions and procedures.
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Health informatics
ICU
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2015 Summer

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The Perceived Knowledge of Health Informatics Competencies by Health Information Management Professionals

The 2009 enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has placed unprecedented emphasis on utilizing technology to improve the quality of care and to decrease healthcare costs. To meet these goals, the healthcare field will need an increase in the number of professionals with the appropriate health informatics training and data analysis skills. Therefore, the author investigated the perceived knowledge of the emerging health informatics competencies by health information management (HIM) professionals.
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Winter 2013

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Evaluating the Usability of a Free Electronic Health Record for Training

2013 Spring
The United States will need to train a large workforce of skilled health information technology (HIT) professionals in order to meet the US government’s goal of universal electronic health records (EHRs) for all patients and widespread health information exchange. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act established several HIT workforce educational programs to accomplish this goal.
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Education & Careers
Electronic Records
HIM Operations

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clinical informatics
education
electronic health record
Health informatics
health information management
medical informatics
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2013 Spring

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Health Informatics Research Methods: Principles and Practice

2012 Winter
by Elizabeth J. Layman, PhD, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA; and Valerie J. Watzlaf, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA

Perspectives in Health Information Management has an exclusive excerpt of the new book, Health Informatics Research Methods: Principles and Practice. The text focuses on the practical applications of research in health informatics and health information management.
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2012 Winter

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Consumer Health Informatics: Is There a Role for HIM Professionals?

2009 Archives
by Marsha Dolan, MBA, RHIA; Julie Wolter, MA, RHIA; Carol Nielsen, MLS; and Jill Burrington-Brown, MS, RHIA, FAHIMA

As recognition of the health information management field grows in the public sphere through wider understanding of the importance health information plays in everyday medical care, examining the roles HIM practitioners may play in relation to the general public served by our healthcare system is timely and important.
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Workforce

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Health informatics
health literacy
PHR
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Research and Policy Model for Health Informatics and Information Management

2009 Archives
by Elizabeth Layman, PhD, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA

Health informatics and information management (HIIM) is an applied research discipline that integrates health, computer science, and business. Researchers in an applied discipline answer the questions of why and how. Policy makers, who can be leaders of health systems, legislators, or regulators at governmental agencies, are often the sources of these questions.
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Evaluating Distance Learning in Health Informatics Education

2008 - Volume 5
by Barbara L. Russell, EdD, MT, SH; Amanda C. Barefield, EdD, RHIA, LNHA; Diane Turnbull, EdD, MT, SH; Elizabeth Leibach, EdD, MS, CLS, MT, SBB; and Lester Pretlow, PhD, CLS(C), NRCC

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The purpose of this study was to compare academic performance between distance-learning and on-campus health informatics students. A quantitative causal-comparative research design was utilized, and academic performance was measured by final GPA scores and Registered Health Information Administrator certification exam scores.
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academic performance
allied health
comparative studies
distance education
distance learning
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2008 - Volume 5

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