BUSINESS UNIT:

HIM Practice Excellence

POSITION PURPOSE:

Provides HIM profession leadership of AHIMA Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), AHIMA Periodicals, and AHIMA enterprise Content Management. Provides leadership for the spectrum of HIM Content life cycle, including but not limited to: research, development, refinement, updating, management and retirement. Oversees the use of HIM content and knowledge in AHIMA products and services. Works with the COO and AHIMA Leadership to collaborate and leverage AHIMA services, deliver member value, position HIM in marketplace, and advocate for the HIM profession across the healthcare industry. Directs multi-level operations, budget, and performance measures for staff, programs, and key initiatives. Develops and manages strategy for AHIMA to meet member need, market position, and revenue goals.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participates in strategic planning for AHIMA with leadership, Board of Directors, and leaders of AHIMA Affiliates.
• Leads strategic and tactical initiatives undertaken by the HIM Practice Excellence in support of AHIMA’s strategic plan. This responsibility is critical to AHIMA, as these strategic measures will help to shape the future of HIM practice, innovation, image, roles and competencies
• Develops and executes an organizational plan within HIM Practice Excellence to assure planning, development and execution of business unit services. Assures that the organization is optimized for effective delivery of its services to internal and external customers
• Assures effective collaboration with other business units of AHIMA including but not limited to: Business Innovation, Marketing and Sales, Advocacy and Influence, Member Services, Communications, Finance and AHIMA Affiliates.
• Recognizing that research is key to innovation and the development of content of value, collaborates in the preparation of multi-year research agendas for health information management
• Collaborates with VPs of all AHIMA Business Units to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of services across AHIMA and to assure that AHIMA is leveraging business, industry, government and member opportunities to advance HIM
• Supports and fosters participation of managers and staff throughout HIM Practice Excellence in operations management, process improvement, and employee engagement initiatives
• Leads advocacy support efforts provided by SMEs in collaboration with the VP of Advocacy and Influence/Government Relations
• Leads the HIM SME group within the HIM Practice group and works with direct SME reports to assure that processes are in place to recruit, hire, orient, train, develop, evaluate and retain HIM SMEs
• Works with direct SME reports to assure common work processes are in place, document and followed to contribute to on-time delivery of quality products and services
• Assures that work reporting mechanisms are in place and followed which facilitate periodic reporting of accomplishments across the SME team
• Assures that SMEs are available and positioned to participate in the development of comments on requests for information (RFIs), notices of proposed federal rules and interpretations of final rules germane to HIM aspects of healthcare
• Assures that SMES are available and prepared to represent AHIMA and the HIM profession in alliance activities with other healthcare industry organizations
• Assures effective liaison and support to volunteer support groups such as Practice Councils and the AHIMA Spokesperson’s Group. Assures that SME resources are prepared and available to take advantage of approved media opportunities as these arise
• Leads the Periodicals group who plans and executes print and digital production of the AHIMA Journal, Research and Academic Digital Journals, e-Newsletters, Digital Media, E-alerts and Journal Content posted to and distributed through the AHIMA website
• Leads the Content Management group, who has responsibility for managing AHIMA enterprise-wide content assets, throughout content life-cycle, regardless of use, distribution or access mode
• Oversees the AHIMA SMEs representing AHIMA and the HIM profession on standards groups and data quality initiatives including but not limited to: HL7, the ONC’s S & I Framework, NQF, AHRQ

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Master’s degree required, MBA, MPH, MHA or other Healthcare Masters Degree, AHIMA certification as RHIA or RHIT, required.
• Minimum 10 years management and executive leadership experience in Healthcare, demonstrating successful multi-project management, and preferably multi-department or business unit management
• Experience with non-profit management and leadership, preferred, including product planning to include profit and loss statements.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities without slippage that impacts any one part of the association
• Excellent critical thinking, negotiation, and communication skills
• Display and demonstrate spirit of collaboration and cooperation in strategic planning and accomplishing goals
• Requires onsite presence at the Association office and therefore must reside in Chicago metro area

BUSINESS UNIT:

HIM Practice Excellence

POSITION PURPOSE:

Support AHIMA’s mission in HIM and Informatics practice through development and provision of content for member and customer offerings and through advancing best practices and standards for health information management. Participate in the delivery of services and offerings that cover the depth and breadth of health information management (HIM).

Responsibilities include external advocacy and influence activities on behalf of AHIMA and the delivery of AHIMA services through, but not limited to the following: face-to-face meetings (workshops, presentations, academies, institutes, summits, and other AHIMA meetings), publications, and online courses.

Consistent with areas of strategic focus, AHIMA seeks candidates with detailed knowledge and experience in two or more of the following areas outside of general HIM Operations: Clinical Document Improvement; EHRs-Legal EHRs; Health Data Analysis; Informatics; Data /information interoperability; Health Information Exchange; Data and Information Governance; Data Standardization; Consumer engagement- PHRs-Patient Portals; Quality Measure/eMeasures; HIPAA Privacy and Security; Meaningful Use; Revenue Cycle Management; ICD Coding, Clinical Terminologies, SNOMED.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage short- and long-term projects, using the following management skills: Strategic thinking, research, planning, budgeting, facilitation and management of teams, change management, time management, and progress reporting.
• Research, create, develop and maintain content to support AHIMA products and services
• Forecast and analyze future roles and skills for HIM professionals
• Develop or assist in the development of AHIMA position statements, practice briefs and guidelines for publication.
• Lead, manage and/or facilitate volunteer practice councils, task forces, or work groups using project management, organization, budgeting and facilitation skills.
• Participate in technical review and editing of all types of AHIMA content, offerings, products and services.
• Communicate and deliver AHIMA content in a variety of ways including: Writing for AHIMA publications or The Journal; Speaking at AHIMA meetings, CSA meetings; Speaking for outside organizations; Provide faculty for AHIMA seminars or other education settings (i.e. distance education); Conduct interviews with media; Provide technical review of external subject matter experts offerings such as articles, power point presentations, online courses or publications; Facilitate AHIMA meetings by identifying speakers and developing final program content
• Based on areas of specialization and assignments, represent AHIMA in advocacy and influence activities with government, industry and standards organizations.
• Respond to a wide range of professional practice inquiries from AHIMA customers and members across the continuum of healthcare settings.
• Based on areas of specialization and assignments, provide support for AHIMA's external contracts as needed, i.e. Mapping, and Business to Business

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Masters Degree preferred: Health Information, Informatics, HealthCare Administration, Public Health, Business Administration
• RHIA or RHIT required, one or more additional AHIMA certifications preferred: CDIP, CHDA, CHPS, CCS, CCS-P, CCA
• FAHIMA designation preferred
• RN-RHIA/RHIT combination a plus
• 5-7 years prior HIM practice experience required, 10+ years preferred. Experience in multiple healthcare industry settings a plus.
• Detail oriented, highly organized, ability to prioritize and adjust as needed. Ability to plan for contingencies.
• Able to effectively work as a remote employee if telecommuting.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills. Strong public speaking skills required. Must be able to produce detailed curriculum vitae of speaking engagements and publications.
• Ability to convey credibility, professionalism and AHIMA values and principles in conversations with members/nonmembers, interviews, and speaking engagements.
• Demonstrated group leadership and facilitation skills.
• The ability to research healthcare topics thoroughly and assimilate information.
• HIM skills to enable sound technical review of products and accurate responses to member questions.
• Basic IT desktop skills and sufficient network skills to connect securely with local, wifi, and VPN to internet and AHIMA’s network. Proficient in use of MS Office tools including: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other software necessary to perform the work required.
• Relocation to Chicago is not required for this position; telecommuting is supported. Travel of approximately 15-40% is required depending upon areas of expertise, assignment, and candidate location.

2 Positions Open

BUSINESS UNIT:

Information Technology

POSITION PURPOSE:

The job’s main function is to provide programming to the organization to support external and internal information systems. This position is also the application development point of contact for any customer relations issues with regards to our external systems. This position will write code in C#, ASP, ASP.Net, MVC, XML, Web Services (WPF or WCF), TSQL, Winforms, JavaScript, jQuery, VB.NET, and HTML and other programming and markup languages and frameworks. Programming activities include development of new web pages, applications and systems, and support of existing applications. This position is also responsible for adhering to coding standards, testing applications, and analyzing programmatic solutions. The Application Developer also documents solutions, researches new technologies, re-writes legacy systems to the latest technologies that serve AHIMA’s internal and external systems needs. Other responsibilities will include consulting with vendors, clients, and other team members to provide technical direction and support in design, development, and implementation. This purpose of this position is to:

• Author quality code to support AHIMA’s products and services
• Be the development point of contact for customer relations issues with regards to our external systems.
• To provide maintenance for existing web applications to support AHIMA customer-facing and operational activities.
• Support AHIMA’s business and technical strategy including enterprise architecture plans that support database consolidation, SOA methods and enterprise integrations of systems.
• Design and develop new web applications used to deliver products and services to internal and external customers.
• Provide testing and analyses of all solutions to insure business requirements are met; code is efficient and adheres to programming and architecture standards.
• Provide knowledge, cross-training, and technical expertise of AHIMA’s systems for team members.
• Adhere to standards of the development team.
• Research, recommend, and implement the latest techniques and technologies for web and mobile development.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, Develop, Test, and Implement new and existing applications in ASP, ASP.Net, Winforms that were internally developed using ASP, ASP.NET, Winforms and C#.
• Provide operational development support for all existing web-based and back-office enterprise applications including, but not limited to; .NET web applications, MS SharePoint, Personify, AMS, and other systems as needed through business requested track-it work orders.
• SQL Programming and Personify Database Management- write SQL Stored Procedures, functions and jobs to support application development and report development- includes all internally developed apps and future apps as required
• Analyze business requirements for new applications and translate into a technical design that integrates into AHIMA’s core development architecture. Research new technologies that can be used to deliver better code and applications to support customer-facing and operational activities
• Knowledge sharing /cross-training, and technical guidance of AHIMA’s systems.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Minimum of 3 years of related experience with at least 2 years of experience in .NET application development
• 2 years of C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, HTML, Server-Side scripting and other web-development technologies using .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.0
• 2 years of T-SQL programming experience, including the use of scripts, stored procedures, functions
• Experience working within the SDLC process supporting system implementations and updates
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Knowledge of internet technologies such as DNS, TCPIP, Internet Search, Web Forms, MVC, etc.
• The ability to use application development tools including, but not limited to, Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• Knowledge of the SDLC process and the role of the programmer within all phases of the project process
• Ability to comment code properly and to document applications and systems
• MS SQL Server and Windows Server knowledge and exposure
• Time Management and excellent organizational skills
• Self starter with excellent communication skills
• Application development within a healthcare or certification business a plus

BUSINESS UNIT:

Business and Innovation

POSITION PURPOSE:

The senior product lines manager - technology based applications provides product line management for all AHIMA web based products, solutions and processes. This will initially include AHIMA’s Career Map, Job Bank, Smart Phone Based Applications, Web Based Ordering processes and procedures, as well as other web and technology based solutions as appropriate.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Technology based applications management – P/L responsibility of a product line consisting of approximately $3M.
• Support other product lines and product line managers – P/L support of additional product lines consisting of an additional $10M.
• Environmental scan, roadmap planning, strategic planning, market research, competitive research, business intelligence.
• Day to day operational execution.
• Interaction, coordination, and strategic planning throughout organization.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience in Technical disciplines.
• P/L experience required.
• Minimum 3 years product management experience, with a portfolio of web and other technology based offerings.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities without slippage that affects any one part of the association.
• Excellent critical thinking, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience in budget and vendor management.
• Displays and demonstrates the spirit of collaboration and cooperation in strategic planning and accomplishing goals.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, and written skills.
• Requires onsite presence at the Association office and therefore must reside in Chicago metro area. Some travel to visit member and customer sites as well as partners and vendors.

Business Unit:

HIM Practice Excellence

POSITION PURPOSE:

Develop and write accurate, insightful articles and produce other media content for the Journal of AHIMA and other AHIMA publications (print and online). Develop and assign articles for two magazine columns; proofread print and digital editions of the magazine.

This is done to help the magazine and AHIMA publications fulfill their mission as professional development tools that keep readers current on issues that affect HIM practice.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• At least three years reporting experience writing news and/or non-fiction based articles for newspapers or magazines
• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism or Communications
• Editorial content development and production knowledge
• Some copyediting/proofreading experience; knowledge of editing conventions
• Experience with audio/video editorial content development, production, editing
• Excellent writing and reporting skills; ability to produce under deadlines
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Understanding of the Chicago Manual of Style
• Strong self-direction
• Flexible, able to juggle many projects
• Basic computer skills (MS Office)
• Comfort level with electronic/new media publishing

MAJOR DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop, research, and write feature articles for the Journal of AHIMA, Journal of AHIMA Web site, AHIMA Advantage, and other AHIMA editorial publications. Find and interview article sources, develop source contacts, and develop subject matter expertise in key strategic healthcare and health information management topics. Assist in the development and writing of content for various Journal sections. Assist Journal staff in creating and writing content for annual convention newspaper and other special event coverage.
• Produce and edit multimedia editorial material (audio and video) for the Journal digital edition and Journal Web site. Work with department staff to coordinate and produce multimedia content.
• Develop, assign/write, and edit articles for four Journal “Working Smart” department columns. Work with AHIMA subject matter experts on department editorial planning.
• Proofread each issue of the Journal of AHIMA and AHIMA Advantage publication.

Business Unit:

Advocacy and Policy

POSITION PURPOSE:

This position exists to advocate and influence federal government, healthcare industry and standards bodies and other policymakers on behalf of the AHIMA and HIM member professionals who wish to see HIM principles and practices acknowledged and addressed in regulatory and industry rules, regulations, guidance, and practices to ensure healthcare information and data quality, integrity, confidentiality and security.

The incumbent is in constant contact with federal officials in several US departments, agencies, and offices, as well as FACA advisory committees and similar gatherings where issues related to AHIMA’s strategic initiatives are being discussed and serve as the root of federal policy and regulation. The incumbent monitors these departments and subunits through a variety of publications and work with other associations doing likewise. The incumbent also is responsible for coordinating and generally facilitating AHIMA’s responses to federal RFIs, NPRM, and similar inquiries. This coordination is done through staff and volunteer formal councils and committees as well as task forces established to respond to a single issue. The incumbent has the authority to speak for the Association in a variety of situations where an immediate response is necessary and is often chosen to represent AHIMA to the press.

The incumbent educates and informs members regarding current and future regulatory activities through a variety of communication methods such as the Advocacy and Public Policy webpage, JAHIMA articles, presentations, audio conferences, e-Alerts, Advantage, and others. By conducting this activity, the incumbent is able to educate and express how regulatory changes will impact or affect HIM principles and practices. Informing our membership enables them to prepare and plan for these changes within their setting.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Masters degree.
• University degree in the field of Health Information Management (HIM).
• Currently Certified as RHIA or RHIT.
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• 7-10 years direct work experience in the field of HIM.
• Experience working with government officials or organizations
• Competent understanding of federal initiatives related to EHRs, HIE, privacy and security, and regulations related to ARRA-HITECH and HIPAA
• Demonstrated ability:
• To elicit cooperation and collaboration from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments to conduct advocacy activities. This includes collaborating with non-HIM professionals, representatives from the government, and other committees, and task forces to advocate and influence for HIM principles and practices.
• To communicate using strong written and oral communication skills.
• To effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a rapidly changing environment.
• To facilitate committees, working groups and task forces to achieve desired outcomes; lead cross-functional project teams as assigned.
• To serve as spokesperson/representative for employer, collation, or similar bodies to federal officials, committees and so forth as well as the press. This would include providing an adequate and politically correct response on a moment’s notice.

MAJOR DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Advocate and Influence

• Attend and participate in government, industry, or standards pertinent meetings (most in Washington, DC) that impact or may impact the HIM profession/industry.
• Contribute to public discussion as needed to represent the HIM/AHIMA perspective and rationale.
• Engage in discussion with pertinent public policymakers to develop awareness of HIM and foster relationships for AHIMA as well as to ensure HIM principles and perspectives are included in their resolutions, regulations, standards, and so forth.
• Serve as the “face” of AHIMA during these meetings and in the industry.
• Serve as an HIM expert in both regulatory and legislative meetings when needed.
• Reporting on actions, meetings, etc. for understanding of staff, volunteer leaders, members, and others. The focus of this activity can be a broad overview and range to a very narrow focus on how a regulatory change will impact certain HIM principles or practices.
• Note: Incumbent is expected to be available for meetings local and otherwise that will potentially take several days or require early morning or late night meetings.

Regulatory Review and Response

• Review regulations and understand the impact on HIM and determine those regulations that will be important to note or highlight to the membership.
• Establish, prioritize, and manage projects to respond to such proposals or requests for information.
• Engage volunteer members and staff subject matter experts to participate in review.
• Coordinate and facilitate member participation and feedback. Also facilitate the understanding of how regulations will affect AHIMA’s strategic goals and objectives.
• Develop, prepare, and submit formal AHIMA response to regulatory or similar activities.
• Develop education for members and others regarding the Association’s perspective.
• Respond to inquiries regarding such submissions from the industry, press, and government entities.

Advocacy and Public Policy web content

• Update regulatory material on the APP webpage through submission of material on the SharePoint application.
• Update the AHIMA home page with pertinent regulatory information.

Writing short term

• Develop content for weekly e-Alert.
• Post materials on the Advocacy and Public Policy web page.

Writing long term

• Write articles for the JAHIMA.
• Write or participate in the writing of white or thought leadership papers for AHIMA and other organizations.
• Provide content review and feedback support for Public Policy Statements, AHIMA comments and testimony, Practice Briefs, staff or voluntary leader articles, and other items as needed.

Speaking and Presentations

• Informal speaking in the form of comments in government, industry, or standards organizations as well as press interviews.
• Develop and prepare presentations for inter-AHIMA and external organizations
• Present to members, other associations, other bodies etc. with a purpose of advocacy, education, etc. Organizations the incumbent has previously presented to include eHI, CHIA, AHIMA members and CSAs.
• Note: Incumbent will be expected to speak at local and out-of town locations and this will include time away for travel to and from as well as participation in such meetings.

Facilitates, coordinates, serves as a member of

• AHIMA conferences, and similar meetings
• Internal committees, workgroups, taskforces, etc
• Team and corporate meetings, socials and educational activities

Business Unit:

Certification

POSITION PURPOSE:

The Program Specialist for Test Security, working under the supervision of the AHIMA VP, Certification Services, will drive implementation of policies, procedures, and related initiatives in support of intellectual property security, specifically in the context of AHIMA’s high-stakes certification exams, as well as coordinate CCHIIM’s response, management, and eventual mitigation of any and all reported / documented security incidents. The successful candidate will work with confidential information in support of continuous monitoring, evaluation, and optimization of certification program security and integrity, specifically to comply with all Caveon Test Security Standards, and consistent with all 3rd-party accreditation systems for Certification Entities (i.e., NCCA and ANSI/IEC/ISO) as required outcomes.

MAJOR DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct detailed comparisons between suspect material and copyrighted intellectual property;
• Create and maintain documentation to support successful litigation;
• Manage disciplinary actions taken in response to security violations;
• Monitor Internet websites, content providers, and Internet newsgroups for sales or offerings of suspect materials and drive appropriate programmatic responses;
• Initiate, coordinate, monitor, and report on-going intellectual property theft investigations, as needed;
• Collaborates with the Test Development Specialist in developing and implementing changes to the item writing, test construction / assembly, and test publishing procedures to enhance test security;
• Identify and recommend investigation process improvements and solutions to improve efficiency and reduce manual activities throughout the Certification Enterprise;
• Participate on and represent AHIMA / CCHIIM on industry Certification Security Councils/boards;
• Manage Test Security budget;
• Manage outsourced resources, such as vendor / service providers, consultants, private investigation or outside counsel;
• Manage internal and external communications regarding test security;
• Manage program violations and enforcement;
• Evangelize policies and procedures with respect to test security;
• Conduct periodic audits;
• Provide training on test security best practices, and AHIMA Certification Services and CCHIIM policies and procedures, to AHIMA staff and all relevant volunteers, as needed;
• Manage the data forensics activities concerning AHIMA certification exams (as conducted by vendors / service providers, or other outside consultant).

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree required, combined with 5+ years of relevant work experience (i.e., professional member association, credentialing agency, or equivalent); or
• Master’s degree preferred (such as Education, Public Health, Statistics, or Industrial / Organizational Psychology), combined with 3+ years of relevant work experience (i.e., professional member association, credentialing agency, or equivalent) experience working with committees/volunteers; strong competence / knowledge of statistics, principles and methodologies, specifically with respect to data management, analysis, and reporting; high level of organizational skills; attention to detail, task-prioritization skills, and teamwork; strong grammatical/editing skills; excellent interpersonal skills with strong oral and written communication abilities; experience in meeting planning and facilitation; effective in managing relationships and deliverables of outside vendors and consultants; familiarity with IT training, professional voluntary certification programs, and / or professional licensure; familiarity with the principles of standards and accreditation; typing/word processing and database management skills; proficient in MS Office (all applications)