Get ready for an EXCITING FHIMA Annual
Convention!
The 2008 Florida Health Information Management Association
Annual Convention is July 14-17 at the beautiful
Omni Orlando Resort ChampionsGate!
19 AHIMA CEU’s and 6 AAPC CEU’s are
available!
This year, all attendees will register online! The agenda,
hotel information, registration information, etc. is all on
our website.
Register online and pay by credit card or check. If you
are paying by check, simply go to the website and register.
You will mail your check in to complete your registration.
You can print out registration information to submit to your
facility for payment/reimbursement.
Early registration deadline is June
15th.
NEW! This year we are offering
an educational session for HIM professionals on Thursday,
July 17th. In the past, we’ve traditionally had
Thursday as a “Coding Day”. However, this year, we’ve added
an all-day legal seminar for HIM professionals at all
levels in all health care settings. Check out the details
on the
agenda!
If you have any questions or do not
have access to the internet, contact Carolyn Glavan, FHIMA
Executive Director at
info@fhima.org or 813-792-9550.
Learn More
and Register Today!
Exhibitor Packets are now available! The convention will be
held JULY 14-17 and the Exhibit Hall days will be Tuesday,
July 15 and Wednesday, July 16.
Booth prices are $725 for booth registration before Friday,
April 25, 2008 and will be $775 after that date.
Click
Here for Exhibitor Packet and Information
Below is a diagram of booths
available. Booths that are not available are highlighted.
Please note that this is not real-time and it will be kept
as up-to-date as possible, but a booth may have been sold
that is not reflected on the diagram.
Click Here for Exhibit Booth Availability
All FHIMA Members are notified that the FHIMA Bylaw changes
will be presented and voted on for incorporation into FHIMA
Bylaws at the 2008 FHIMA House of Delegates on Monday, July
14, 2008.
Click here to review the
proposed changes.
The FHIMA Data Quality Committee is pleased
to offer these tool kits to assist you in planning a “Coding
Roundtable Forum.”
This forum will provide guidelines on how to
implement a Regional Coding Roundtable and a Do-It-Yourself
toolkit with topics and resources for research and
discussion. Updates will be done on a quarterly basis. The
coding roundtable forum is an area for coders to learn,
share and discuss issues related to coding, data quality and
compliance.
We hope all FHIMA members will find this
useful and informative.
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POA, Excisional Debridement and Respiratory
 Click
Here for the link to Coding Roundtable Forum Guidelines
The best way to deal with change is to go
out and meet it head on, says Anna Lattu, RHIA. If we sit
back and wait, change happens to us and we miss the
opportunity to influence it. “It’s much more important to be
up there and be part of change and be proactive,” she says.
That’s what Lattu does as director of
information management services at Minnesota State Operated
Services, a behavioral health agency in St. Paul, MN. And
that’s what she does as part of a new AHIMA program that
connects e-HIM® experts with volunteer
opportunities within CSAs and with individual AHIMA members.
Lattu is a member of ACE, the Action
Community for e-HIM® Excellence. The program
mobilizes AHIMA’s network of HIM experts and change agents.
It identifies, prepares, engages, mentors, and recognizes
those working to transform HIM practice and connects them
with volunteer and career-building opportunities.
How to Get Involved
ACE members make change happen. They apply
expertise, experience, and leadership skills within their
organizations, communities, and states. Current ACE members
are participating in regional health information exchange
initiatives, leading organizational data quality improvement
efforts, and speaking at state and national HIM conferences.
Other ACE members have testified on HIM issues before
government agencies and mentored students and new
professionals.
Lattu fights hard for projects she believes
in, often convincing, educating and negotiating with her
clinical, technical, and administrative colleagues to garner
their support. One project she is working to bring to her
facility is a telehealth system, which would enable
providers to communicate with patients through interactive
television.
Individuals join the ACE Challenge through
recommendation or self-nomination. An online self-assessment
helps them gauge their expertise and experience. If they
join ACE, they make a commitment to volunteering.
Call on ACE!
ACE members like Lattu act as a “preferred
pool of experts,” available for mentoring, speaking,
writing, testifying, and more. A CSA can seek an ACE member
to give a presentation at a state meeting, for example.
Individuals can request mentoring on an e-HIM initiative
they face at work.
You can learn more about ACE by visiting
www.ahima.org/ace.
There you’ll find an online nomination form and the
self-assessment. A directory of ACE members available for
mentoring also appears there. CSA leaders may access a
directory of ACE members available for presentations. To set
up access to the directory, they can call Pam Garcia in
AHIMA’s Volunteer Services department at 312-233-1162 or by
e-mail at
pamela.garcia@ahima.org
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