Today's Health Information Management: An Integrated Approach
By Dana C. McWay
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As technology, legislation and industry practices rapidly evolve, the HIM profession has become increasingly dynamic, complex and essential. McWay's TODAY'S HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, 3rd Edition, helps your students prepare for success in this high-demand field by mastering both the fundamental principles and cutting-edge practices that define modern HIM. Maintaining the text's proven instructional approach, the new edition reflects the latest trends, technology and best practice. It meets current CAHIIM standards and RHIT/RHIA certification exam requirements and includes new coverage of informatics, data privacy, the digital divide and digital literacy, data sets, information systems and much more. New online and distance learning resources are also included. It's perfect for aspiring technicians and managers as well as HIM professionals working toward a degree or certification.
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As technology, legislation and industry practices rapidly evolve, the HIM profession has become increasingly dynamic, complex and essential. McWay's TODAY'S HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, 3rd Edition, helps your students prepare for success in this high-demand field by mastering both the fundamental principles and cutting-edge practices that define modern HIM. Maintaining the text's proven instructional approach, the new edition reflects the latest trends, technology and best practice. It meets current CAHIIM standards and RHIT/RHIA certification exam requirements and includes new coverage of informatics, data privacy, the digital divide and digital literacy, data sets, information systems and much more. New online and distance learning resources are also included. It's perfect for aspiring technicians and managers as well as HIM professionals working toward a degree or certification.
Feature boxes encourage readers to apply text material to real-world situations, helping them sharpen their critical thinking skills as they draw from what they've learned to answer questions. Suggested answers to critical thinking exercises are provided in the Instructor Manual to help spark lively class discussion.
Helping students maximize their study time, Confirm & Clarify Understanding exercises in every chapter reinforce essential concepts. Exercises include acronym review, true and false questions, multiple choice questions and matching pair review.
The text's unique integrated approach features information on HIPAA, ARRA, ethics, GINA and informatics throughout, enabling students to easily relate key principles and practices to important real-world considerations that affect HIM professionals today.
Maps to current AHIMA curriculum domains and the Instructor Manual provide a curricular crosswalk for the RHIT and RHIA programs at the start of each chapter.
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Chapters
Part 1. Introduction to Health Information Management
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