Description

Health Information Management: Concepts, Principles, and Practice, Sixth Edition, is a textbook for students and healthcare professionals alike. Proper management of health information is critical for the healthcare industry to advance and improve in areas of cost, access, and quality. The core of the health information management (HIM) profession is recognizing the pivotal role that health information plays when collected and stored accurately and completely so that it can then be analyzed to make critical clinical, financial, administrative, and ethical decisions in healthcare. This book offers content to help students and professionals already working in the healthcare field understand the value of quality information from the point of patient-specific data collection to the aggregation of that data to generate information that can then be utilized to increase knowledge and support decision-making.

The content of this book is modeled after the 2018 AHIMA HIM curricula competencies and the RHIA exam domains. This book sets the path for excellence in four-year baccalaureate programs and identifies the critical competencies in the HIM discipline today. The text is a foundation for successfully executing curriculum requirements, a preparation guide for the RHIA exam, and a resource for practicing healthcare and health information professionals in a variety of roles.

• • Covers all 2018 AHIMA HIM baccalaureate-level curricula competencies
• • Bloom's Taxonomy level identified for review and test questions
• • Serves as the foundational text for RHIA certification study
• • Answer key to odd-numbered check your understanding questions allows students to self-assess their knowledge and build a framework for HIM principles

Doody's Reviews

Table of Contents

Similar Resources

Basic Concepts of Health Care Human Resource Management - 2nd Ed. (2020)

Basic CPT and HCPCS Coding (2021)

Calculating and Reporting Healthcare Statistics - 6th Ed. (2020)

Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System - 6th Ed. (2023)

Fundamentals of Law for Health Informatics and Information Management - 3rd Ed. (2017)

Health Information Management Technology: An Applied Approach - 6th Ed. (2020)

Health Insurance and Managed Care: What They Are and How They Work - 5th Ed. (2020)

Introduction to Healthcare Informatics - 2nd Ed. (2017)

Medical Coding in the Real World (2018)

Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice - 3rd Ed. (2022)

Practical Approach to Analyzing Healthcare Data, A - 3rd Ed. (2016)

Principles of Healthcare Reimbursement and Revenue Cycle Management– 7th Ed. (2021)

Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) Exam Preparation - 7th Ed. (2018)