This week: Staffing, data, AAMI
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According to the report prepared for Credentials that Work, an initiative that promotes colleges’ use of real-time labor information to inform program offerings, “health informatics is a category that has become increasingly integrated into the management of clinical care.”
Positions like supervisor and manager, auditor and compliance review staff, and clinical documentation and improvement specialists have “become more skilled, with entry-level jobs upgraded, lower-skilled positions shrinking and greater clinical knowledge required for higher-level jobs.”
Debate about ICD-10 implementation probably likely won’t end for years and it seems readers’ interest in hearing from all sides continues. And, anything to do with increasing the access, transparency and potential use of data will always attract readers.
Our coverage of the 2012 American Association of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) annual conference was popular this week as well. From the growing use of mobile technology to efforts to manage alarm fatigue to thoughts about all the technological advances with the potential to impact healthcare, the meeting’s range of topics probably matched up with most CMIOs’ to-do lists.
Beth Walsh
CMIO Editor
bwalsh@trimedmedia.com
Beth Walsh,
Editor
Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.