Product #: AB103123 ©2025
ISBN #: 978-1-58426-979-3
Category: Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Publisher: AHIMA Press
Pages: Approx. 816 pages
Health Information Management Technology: An Applied Approach, Seventh Edition, transforms and enhances the education and training for health information management (HIM) professionals. The content in this book supports the American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) current curricula, and the chapters are mapped to AHIMA’s Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) domains. The organization of the information provides students with a logical flow for skill development and knowledge building.
- Topical coverage expanded in the content areas of auditing, artificial intelligence, compliance, and critical thinking
- Updated real-world cases at the end of each chapter present actual scenarios faced by HIM professionals and are designed to initiate discussions that will elaborate on chapter topics
- Updated Check Your Understanding questions throughout each chapter reinforce concepts to improve comprehension
- Appendix A contains answers and rationales for odd-numbered Check Your Understanding questions
- Downloadable student resources include a student workbook with real-world cases and case discussion questions, application exercises, and review quizzes
Part I: Foundational Concepts
1 Health Information Management Profession
2 Healthcare Delivery Systems
3 Health Information Functions, Purpose, and Users
Part II: Data Content, Structures and Standards
4 Health Record Content and Documentation
5 Clinical Terminologies, Classifications, and Code Sets
6 Data Management
7 Secondary Data Sources
Part III: Health Information and the Law: Legal Concepts, Protection, and Access
8 Health Law
9 Information Privacy and Confidentiality
10 Data Security
Part IV: Informatics, Analytics, and Data Use
11 Health Information Systems
12 Healthcare Information
13 Research and Data Analysis
14 Healthcare Statistics
Part V: Revenue Cycle Management and Compliance
15 Revenue Management and Reimbursement
16 Fraud and Abuse Compliance
Part VI: Leadership
17 Management
18 Performance Improvement
19 Leadership
20 Human Resources Management and Professional Development
21 Ethical Issues in Health Information Management
Appendix A: Check Your Understanding Answer Key
Appendix B: Glossary
Index
Instructor Resources include the following:
- Instructor manual
- Full answer key
- Presentation slides
- Transition Guide
The test bank is also available in Respondus.
Nanette B. Sayles, EdD, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CHDA, CHPS, CPHI, CPHIMS, FAHIMA, is a professor in the health information management program at East Central College in Union, Missouri.
Leslie L. Gordon, MS, RHIA, CPHQ, FAHIMA, is retired from healthcare administration and education. She was the director of performance improvement for the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium.
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