“We have been through the decade of health IT –health information technology; we have now entered the decade of health IM - information management.
The challenge of the coming years will not be the technology; it will be managing digital health information, including, but not limited to the information content of electronic health records.
In digital form, personal health information will be routinely exchanged among providers and between providers and other trusted stakeholders, including the key stakeholder, individual consumers. And such routine information exchange presents unprecedented health IM challenges…
….For us certainly, as health information management professionals, but also for the many millions of people who need basic Health IM skills to do their jobs and live their lives”.
Linda Kloss, MA, RHIA, CAE
Chief Executive Officer, AHIMA
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