AHIMA Advantage - December 2011

New Toolkits Available Information Integrity in the Electronic Health Record: Data Integrity Toolkit This paper explores best practices to ensure information integrity in the course of using and managing an EHR system, whether fully electronic or in a hybrid state, and covers practices for multiple processes from capturing information all the way through the continuum to sharing information.

Government Audit Toolkit This toolkit is designed to provide guidance to HIM professionals on how to prepare for and ensure compliance in managing governmental audits. Reform of our healthcare system is currently under way. We can be certain that there will be intense pressure to squeeze every last dollar out of any and every possible governmental funding source. This financial pressure will further solidify the permanence of a multitude of governmental audits.

Call for Abstracts for 2012
Convention, AOE Now Open

AOE Call for Abstracts The 2012 Assembly on Education and Faculty Development Institute meeting will take place July 23–27, 2012, in San Antonio, TX. Abstracts will be accepted through January 23, 2012. Submit your abstract before December 16, 2011, to be entered into a drawing for a $100 American Express gift card. Learn more and review the abstract guidelines.

Convention Call for Abstracts The program committee for the 2012 AHIMA Convention and Exhibit invites you to submit papers for presentation during the 84th AHIMA Convention and Exhibit, September 29–October 4, 2012, at Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center. Learn more by visiting AHIMA’s Speaking Opportunities page.

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Don’t forget with the ICD- 10 transition close at hand, this is a more critical time than ever to renew your membership. We look forward to another year of supporting your professional endeavors and delivering opportunities to advance your career. There are three easy ways to renew online by logging into myAHIMA, mailing in your renewal notice, or by phone at (800) 335-5535.

CCS and CCS-P Exams Now Live CCS and CCS-P exams have re-launched with immediate scoring. For more information on the exams, code books, or the new alternate item types, visit AHIMA’s certification Web site.

The Date is Set for ICD- 10 All coding exams will become ICD- 10 compliant in March 2013. Stay tuned for more information on ICD- 10 exam updates in 2012.

AHIMA’s Washington Office Welcomes Margarita Valdez The AHIMA Advocacy and Influence team is excited to announce the hiring of Margarita Valdez as congressional relations manager. Valdez comes to AHIMA with a wealth of Capitol Hill legislative and communications experience from her service with the offices of Congressman Blake Farenthold (R-TX), Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI), and C-SPAN. Congressman Rogers is a senior member of an important congressional committees with jurisdiction over health information management and technology issues, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and its Health Subcommittee. The congressional relations manager is a new position in the AHIMA Washington, DC, office whose primary role will be to represent AHIMA before Congress. Please join us in welcoming Margarita Valdez to AHIMA.v