Professional Development- Education & CEUs

HIM 101

AHIMA-certified professionals hold an intimate relationship with health information. While our patients don’t often see us, we see our patients in a way no other healthcare professional does. This perspective is critical to the success of all modern health organizations. We see the person connected to the data, ensuring their information stays human – because when information stays human, it stays relevant.

• What is Health Information Management (HIM)?
• Health Information Career Map

Career Prep Tools

• Get started – Certifications and Career Paths
• Mentorship
• AHIMA Student Resource Center
• Resource for Health Information Education and Assessments – FREE
• Free excel tutorials
• Percent employed and mean earnings by educational attainment
• What do you need to learn?
  • Novel and adaptive thinking – think through problems even in the face of unknowns
  • Sensemaking – negotiation and creation of meaning
  • Computational Thinking – requires decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithms
  • Virtual Collaboration – working effectively in shared spaces and video conferences
  • Cross-cultural competency – working effectively with lots of people who do not necessarily look or think like you
• Statistical Skills
  • Basic statistics – From community college or online courses
  • Coursework in using R and R-Studio
    • Free self-learning courses available online from Google, Coursera, eDx, Udacity, Datacamp, etc.
• Programming Skills
  • MySQL – Codecademy
  • Python Programming
    • Materials available for high-school children to learn Python programming
    • Self-paced learning courses available online from Google, Coursera, eDx, Udacity, Datacamp, etc.
• Information Skills
  • How to search using keywords in Google, Bing
  • Search for job descriptions in job websites like Glassdoor, Indeed
  • Familiarize yourself with tools, programming language and topics in informatics

Education  CEU Requirements

• AHIMA – CEU Requirements
• AHIMA CEU Center for reporting your CEUs
• AHIMA – ICD-10 CEU Policy
• MaHIMA CEUs are approved by AAPC – CEUs are accepted from programs sponsored by AHIMA national offices and the state or regional AHIMA branches. One hour of instruction is worth one CEU. We also honor CEUs from AHIMA for online self assessments. A certificate of attendance or completion is necessary to show participation.