Question

Until recently, the healthcare C-suite did not have an HIM voice. Now, there are a variety of C-suite positions that an HIM professional with proper education could fill.

1. Identify at least five of these C-suite roles.

2. Determine which AHIMA credential(s) would correlate with the positions (there could be numerous credentials).

Answer 1

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   1) Chief administrative Officer, this officer will be having the same power of a chief operating executive and in some cases they are believed as in the same position.The chief administrative officer is mainly accountable for leading and controlling  the organization in a smooth way and lining up the company's goals.

2) Chief Clinical Officer, these type of officers are very usual for healthcare systems and doctors will be filling this role.These persons will be doing their job by supervising patient commitment and clinical quality results.

3) Chief Financial Officer, these individuals will take responsibility of the financial team of the healthcare centers like hospitals and are also accountable for making a good financial future.They are capable of making many kind of policies for financial development.

4) Chief Information Officer, this Officer will supervise the IT section and create technology based buying decisions in healthcare organization.And these Officers will be doing their job with other C-suiters to make ideas for developing amount of digital details accumulated at the hospitals to help other health IT enterprise.

5) Chief Medical Information Officer, they supervise the choosing and execution of EHR as the IT sections cooperation with the clinical employee.

2) American Health Information Management Association, familiar by those in medical charge and coding area as AHIMA is a important firm which gives major certifications.in spite of the fact that these are not needed by law , managers can state any kind of certification as a priority or need for hire and some of the AHIMA Certifications includes ,

-- Registered Health Information Administrator or RHIA- Obtaining RHIA means executives will be a expert in the medical coding categorization and related technologies as they involve in the health system and patient data.

-- Registered Health Information Technician or RHIT- The RHIT executives will be mainly experts in the medical record quality.They gives importance in identification, coding procedure and also the patient details examination.

-- Certified Coding Assistant or CCA- They will be having a hard base in coding in any kind of settings, from healthcare centers to doctors practices.

-- Certified coding specialist or CCS- Thee executives can do their job in any place where their skill in categorizing patient datas from medical records.

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