Health Information Management Profession and Leadership
Health Information Management Profession and Leadership
Health care managers in today’s modern environment need to understand the importance and role of HIM. This also includes an understanding of the professional need to ensure that the health information systems are compliant and operating in an efficient and effective manner. In this unit, you will once again work with the interactive scenario at a fictional hospital system. You will be tasked with researching health information management professionals and their job functions and abilities to help the organization maintain or improve its HIM systems.
It is important for organizations to hire the right professionals to manage their health information systems and to ensure that those professionals and their skills are in line with organizational goals.
Learning Activities
[u04s1] Unit 4 Study 1
Studies
Readings
Complete the following to prepare for the discussion in this unit and the Unit 5 assignment.
Electronic Health Records
Vanderhook, S., & Abraham, J. (2017). Unintended consequences of EHR systems: A narrative review. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare, 6(1), 218–225.
Health Information
Abrams, K., Carlon, S., Haugen, M. B., Mancilla, D., McElroy, K., Millen, M., . . . Sorensen, L. (2017). HIM reimagined outlines BOLD new future for HIM profession. Journal of AHIMA, 88(6), 22–25.
Health Information Management Professionals
Gibson, C. J., Dixon, B. E., & Abrams, K. (2015). Convergent evolution of health information management and health informatics: A perspective on the future of information professionals in health care. Applied Clinical Informatics, 6(1), 163–184.
Zeng, X., Reynolds, R., & Sharp, M. (2009). Redefining the roles of health information management professionals in health information technology. Perspectives in Health Information Management, 1f–12f.
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
Understand benefits to organizations of employing health information management professionals.
Understand the current market for health information management professionals.
Understand the current roles and skills of successful health information management professionals.
[u04s2] Unit 4 Study 2
Assignment Preparation
By the end of Unit 5, you will complete the Information System Job Description and Summary assignment. For this assignment, you will write a job description for a health information management professional as well as create an executive summary for the leadership regarding the need for and benefits of a new hire.
Before you start drafting the job description for the new hire, you must fully understand the following components of the EHR and HIM system.
