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Priority: Prepared Workforce Eager for Change to eHealth

Priority: Prepared Workforce Eager for Change to eHealth. Rita A. Scichilone MHSA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P AHIMA Global Services. Action: Interest, Incentive, Infrastructure.

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Priority: Prepared Workforce Eager for Change to eHealth

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  1. Priority: Prepared Workforce Eager for Change to eHealth Rita A. Scichilone MHSA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P AHIMA Global Services

  2. Action: Interest, Incentive, Infrastructure Representing more than 61,000 specially educated Health Information Management professionals in the United States and around the world, the American Health Information Management Association is committed to promoting and advocating for high quality research, best practices and effective standards in health information and to actively contribute to the development and advancement of health information professionals worldwide Three Priority Points • Igniting interest in healthcare technology roles • Incentive development for influencing change • Infrastructure building for education

  3. Action: Igniting Interest • Health informatics and information management is critical for transformation of healthcare delivery • Vision: Health records are electronic, patient-centered, comprehensive, longitudinal, accessible, user-friendly and reliable • Policy must include promotion of HIT and HIM roles as a long-term satisfying career choice

  4. Action: Incentives Important • Policies must incent people to choose or make a career change - include • Essential: Professional role clarity and recognition • Expectation : Compensation parity with other industries • Enhancement: Job descriptions developed to support higher salary allocation • Equity: Comparable and improved compensation programs for health informatics and information management faculty and trainers • Success depends on compelling incentives

  5. Action: Infrastructure Building Recommended Policy Inclusion • Intensive short courses – train more workers faster with targeted skill sets • Well designed and accredited distance education programs – assessment with certification • Standardization of curriculum • External support from governments/ministries • Leverage professional associations

  6. Action: Infrastructure Building Recommended Policy Inclusion • HIM and HIT are symbiotic – technology requires information management to sustain successful implementation • Principles of the HIM discipline include stewardship of data content • Technology creates the building but a steward is needed to manage the information created there

  7. HIM Core Model (Draft)

  8. HIMCore Model Components

  9. Resources • Building the Workforce for Health Information Transformation. (2006) Available from https://www.amia.org/files/shared/Workforce_web.pdf • Statement on Health Information Management (HIM) as a Multi-National Profession (2008) Available from http://www.ahima.org/advocacy/positionstatements.aspx • CAHIIM : Health Information Management and Health Informatics Accreditation . Available from http://www.ahima.org/downloads/pdfs/global/AHIMA%20Accreditation.pdf • Joint Work Force: Health Information Management and InformaticsCore Competencies for Individuals Working With Electronic Health Records (2008) Available from https://www.amia.org/files/shared/Workforce_2008.pdf • Public Health Training Opportunities http://www.cdc.gov/learning • US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http:// www.ahrq.gov/fund/training/index.htm

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