IFHIMA Global News Issue No 11, August 2012

International Federation of Health Information Management Associations

A Non-Governmental Organization in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO)

The Link for Health Records/Information Management around the World

Contents:

IFHIMA President’s Message
Margaret Skurka
The Need for HIM Education and Training in Developing Countries
Laxman Sharma Paudel
World Health Day 2012 Celebration in Nepal
Laxman Sharma Paudel
International Examination for Morbidity Coders
Joon H. Hong, Carol A. Lewis
Data on a Comparative Study on Health Information Management Education around the World
Yukiko Yokobori
Common HIM Job titles in the US (and how to achieve them)
Lynne Thomas Gordon
Health Information Managers in The Philippines
Lourdes L. Palapal
HIM in Finland
Hikka Uuttu, Tarja Mäkitalo
Medical Secretaries and Electronic Patient Records: Invisible work and its future?
Claus Bossen
Medical Secretarial Training in Cameroon
Melanie Muldoon
Health Information Mangers (HIMs), Medical Secretaries in Denmark
Darley Petersen
Medical Secretaries in Greenland
Judith K. Nielsen
WHO Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC)
Meeting March 19-21, 2012
World Health Day 2012 Theme becomes sensational News for the Media
68th National congress of the Korean Medical Record Association
Joon H. Hong
65th WHO World Health Assembly
Angelika Haendel
Calendar of events
Publishing information

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