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AAHIM e-Alert

July 30, 2021

Inside this Issue:

AAHIM & Advocacy
Tell AHIMA How You’re Living the Pledge
Upcoming Regional Council Dates
Save the Date
Telehealth Toolkit Released:
AHIMA21 Virtual Conference: Sept. 20-22, 2021
Virtual Coding Symposium - You Can Still Register!
AAHIM 2021 Virtual State Meeting:
Documenting Medical Necessity for the 2021 Evaluation & Management (E/M) Changes Webinar – Registration Open!
Mentee Opportunity

AAHIM & Advocacy

AHIMA has added a link that each member can access to contact their representative or senator to ensure they are aware of our advocacy priorities. It only takes a minute to complete. Please Alabama HIM members take a moment to visit the link and contact your representatives!

Tell AHIMA How You’re Living the Pledge

As a health information professional, you understand the cost of patient misidentification. Enter a competition and tell us how you or your organization are living the Naming Policy Pledge.

We are so proud that more than 1,400 AHIMA members signed the Naming Policy Pledge! Complete the competition entry below to share how your organization is living the pledge.

Competition Entry Here

Upcoming Regional Council Dates

Montgomery -
September 13th from 12pm to 1:15pm
Northeast -
October 14th at 5pm
South Alabama -
October 19th
Southeast -
September 15^th at 3pm;
November 17^th at 3pm

Please contact Karen Price at karenprice@aahim.org with any questions.

Save the Date

2022 Annual Meeting:

April 25-27
Orange Beach Convention Center
Orange Beach, AL.

Telehealth Toolkit Released:

Just released - AHIMA’s Telehealth Toolkit offers thorough guidance to organizations that are looking to implement or expand their program. Here, readers receive the most up-to-date resources with a special focus on tele-consultations. We also took special care to craft a global perspective, with advice for any country, not just the United States. Click Telehealth Toolkit for more information. AAHIM's own Shannon Houser, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA was one of the co-authors.

AHIMA21 Virtual Conference: Sept. 20-22, 2021

Learn, Lead and Thrive. Health care professionals face unprecedented challenges. We are called upon to innovate our heath information management systems while adapting to new regulations and evolving technologies. AHIMA21 shows you where leaders have made important strides toward this new future. Join us in this critical endeavor. Learn to lead at AHIMA21! Register now.

Virtual Coding Symposium -
You Can Still Register!

It is not too late to register for the prerecorded two-part AAHIM 2021 Virtual Coding Symposium. You can still purchase either one of the mini sessions or the entire meeting. Here's the agenda for both sessions. Session 1 offers 5.5 CEUs; Session 2 offers 5.5. You will be able to view each recording at your convenience. Click the links below for more information and to register. There are 6 Nursing CEs Available for the 1st session and 6.5 CEs available for the 2nd.

Session 1: Learn More & Register

Session 2: Learn More & Register

AAHIM 2021 Virtual State Meeting:
Navigating the Tides of Change

26 AHIMA CEUs & 27.6 Nursing CEs Available

Registration Is Still Open!

Join the Alabama Association of Health Information Management (AAHIM) leadership and membership for our Virtual Annual Conference. Health Information Management (HIM) Professionals from across the state are invited to experience on-demand learning at their own convenience in innovative ways that will translate into real-world solutions and be embraced long after they leave. Broaden your knowledge by participating in our virtual annual conference.

Learn More & Register

Documenting Medical Necessity for the 2021 Evaluation & Management (E/M) Changes Webinar – Registration Open!

With medical decision making (MDM) the key element for the new E/M services guidelines, documenting the medical necessity is more important than ever. This session will walk through the key revisions to the E/M guidelines and discuss ways in which basic documentation principles will ensure that the medical record documentation paints a complete picture of the services rendered, and support the medical necessity of code selection for each level.

1 AHIMA/AAPC CEU and 1.2 Nursing CEs will be awarded.

Learn More & Register

* This is an on-demand webinar.

Mentee Opportunity

Do you have a completed project? Are you currently working on an HIM related project?

Dr. Shannon Houser, member

of AAHIM Board of Directors, chair of Research and Data Analytics Committee, would like to offer her services and expertise to work with you and possibly to publish or present your work. Contact Dr. Houser at shouser@uab.edu to discuss further.