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• Health IT Certification

  Independent of government or membership organizations, Health IT Certification, a company based in Salem, Ore., has an eight-year history in testing professional competency. Today, Health IT Certification has four programs...

  • Posted November 28, 2012
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• Certified Healthcare CIO – CHCIO

  Said to be the first professional certification expressly for healthcare CIOs and IT executives, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) CHCIO designation is “more leadership/executive than technical,” according to...

  • Posted November 26, 2012
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• Commission on Certification for Health Informatics and Information Management – CCHIIM

  American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) Commission on Certification for Health Informatics and Information Management oversees eight distinct certification programs, including one for the new Certified Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP)...

  • Posted November 23, 2012
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• Certified Health Informatics Systems Professional – CHISP

  The Certified Health Informatics Systems Professional – CHISP  certification represents technical professionals who specialize in health IT. The American Society of Health Informatics Managers (ASHIM) awards the CHISP designation to people...

  • Posted November 20, 2012
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• PACS – Agfa Impax

    AGFA’s Impax PACS offers customers a fully integrated radiology information system (RIS)/PACS/reporting workflow system for data management and reporting. Improved productivity is achieved through the complete imaging chain,...

  • Posted November 19, 2012
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• Certified Professional in Healthcare Information Management

  Like many professional membership societies, the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has its own certification exam and designation, namely CPHIMS. “It’s an international standard of knowledge,” according to...

  • Posted November 17, 2012
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• CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician Certificate

  Broad-based IT industry association CompTIA has long been certifying professional competency in various areas of computer technology and information systems. In July 2011, the group added an exam for healthcare...

  • Posted November 15, 2012
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• PACS – Cerner SkyVue

    Cerner SkyVue PACS Software is a customizable cloud-based viewer platform that enables one cohesive viewer within the enterprise and beyond, regardless of the user’s role or venue. Clinicians can...

  • Posted November 15, 2012
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• The Problem With ICD-10 and Fraud Dectection

  Detecting healthcare insurance fraud takes the work of vigilant investigators as well as help from the investigators you don’t hear about.  Namely computer systems running complex algorithms looking for slight deviations...

  • Posted November 9, 2012
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• Another Type Of EHR – Pooling Medical Data

  Here is an interesting video that I watched on Ted.com.  John Wilbanks talks about pooling medical data.  Currently most of the medical data that is accumulated comes from closed...

  • Posted October 28, 2012
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