Dowling tapped for AHIMA CEO position
The Board of Directors for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) recently announced Alan F. Dowling, PhD, will succeed Linda Kloss as CEO of the Chicago-based health information management (HIM) organization.
Dowling, currently an adjunct professor of information systems at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, is scheduled to take office Jan. 13, 2010. He received his PhD in healthcare management and management information systems at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
According to the 55,000-member organization, AHIMA is currenlty pursuing several initiatives directly related to the universal expansion of EHRs. AHIMA’s outreach agenda includes recommendations for meaningful use, ICD-10 adoption, HIM workforce development, international HIM community leadership, personal health records and the protection of patients’ health information rights.
Dowling, currently an adjunct professor of information systems at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, is scheduled to take office Jan. 13, 2010. He received his PhD in healthcare management and management information systems at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
According to the 55,000-member organization, AHIMA is currenlty pursuing several initiatives directly related to the universal expansion of EHRs. AHIMA’s outreach agenda includes recommendations for meaningful use, ICD-10 adoption, HIM workforce development, international HIM community leadership, personal health records and the protection of patients’ health information rights.