AHIMA awards innovative HIM practices
Health information management (HIM) professionals who strive to enhance their skills and expand their base of knowledge often are the ones who develop new and innovative, or best practices.
In an effort to identify these practices, which can benefit health care organizations and the industry as a whole, and to recognize the members who create them, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in Chicago developed its "Best Practices Awards" program.
"Not only will the program help us identify a host of new practices and our colleagues who create them, it will give us important practice information we can share with all of our members," says Claire Dixon-Lee, PhD, RRA, AHIMA president.
A nominated best practice must apply primarily to HIM, and it should relate to the nominee’s practice area or another area in which he or she has been working. Submissions require details of how and why the best practice was developed, how it was implemented and assessed for effectiveness, and how it improved the management of health information.
A panel of HIM experts will judge the submissions. Participation in the awards program is open only to AHIMA members. Multiple submissions from individual participants are allowed.
The deadline for submissions is May 1, 1999. Send submissions to Best Practices Award, c/o Practice Leadership, AHIMA, 919 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60611-1683. Submissions also can be sent via e-mail to [email protected].
The prizes include $3,000 for first place, $2,000 for second place, $1,000 for third place, and $50 for 20 honorable mentions. Winners also will be recognized at the 1999 AHIMA National Convention and Exhibit and in the Journal of AHIMA.
For more information, contact AHIMA at (312) 787-2672 or visit the AHIMA Web site at www.ahima.org. AHIMA members also can call the association’s FaxLink service at (888) 424-4040.
• The Healthcare EDI Coalition’s national 1999 conference and technology exposition, Building the Electronic Data Infrastructure (EDI) for the 21st Century, will be held April 7-9 in Dallas.
H. Ross Perot, president and CEO of Perot Systems in Dallas, will deliver the keynote address. For more information, call the coalition headquarters at (800) 905-4583 or visit its Web site at http://www.hedic.org/HEDIC99.html.
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