May 17, 2006
Virtual Information Technology Lab
The American Health Information Management Association is testing its e-HIM Virtual Lab, with a goal of providing students with hands-on health information management technology experience.
Chicago-based AHIMA is piloting its e-HIM Virtual Lab with 1,900 students and instructors from 47 academic programs around the country. Its aim is to have 100 academic programs and 4,000 students participating by the end of 2007. The test "lab" includes applications for patient identification, administrative and reimbursement coding, data capture, and abstracting.
Additional applications scheduled for implementation this year include electronic document management, documentation quality management, dictation, transcription, speech recognition and natural language processing.
AHIMA announced the initiative May 11 during the Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics, a bipartisan initiative sponsored by members of Congress. AHIMA's Foundation of Research and Education funds the Virtual Lab project.
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