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If you are seeking an exciting education and career, look no further!

Check out Health Information Management !!!

"Are you searching for the formula to success? Then consider combining these ingredients for a career with tremendous potential—healthcare and information technology.

The health information management (HIM) field places you right where the expanding arena of healthcare meets the cutting edge of technology. As an HIM professional, you are the expert on patient data that doctors, nurses, and other providers rely on to perform their jobs. By maintaining, collecting, and analyzing health information, your work makes an important contribution to the delivery of quality care." -  AHIMA 
 

Growing Future of HIM Careers

Medicine's New Pulse
By CAROL GENTRY The Tampa Tribune Published: Jul 30, 2007

TAMPA - A decade ago, Cynthia Smith had five children and a high school diploma but no skills, scraping by on welfare and food stamps in Okeechobee.

Today, she's a systems analyst for Tampa General Hospital, having worked her way up from a clerical job there in 1998. She was promoted a year ago from database specialist, she said, winning a pay boost to $43,000 from $29,000.

"I've been blessed," she says modestly. But, she adds, "I was willing to learn anything and everything to get to where I am."  Continued >>

For details on an education and career in HIM contact us or check out these great links!

 

St. Petersburg College

Web site:  www.spjc.edu/webcentral/acad/healthinfo.htm

University of Central Florida

Web Site:  www.ucf.edu

Florida Health Information Management Association

Web Site:  www.fhima.org


American Health Information Management Association

Web Site:  www.AHIMA.org

 

Polk Community College
Web Site: www.polk.edu

or contact your GCHIMA FIRE Committee Member:

Esther Stobierski 

Email: vses1126@verizon.net

 

Renee Petron

email: Renee.Petron@HCAHealthcare.com

 

Barbara Bermudez, RHIT,

email:  BBermudez@mail.uch.org

 

Martin O'Neil

email:  Martin.Oneil@healthsouth.com

 

Sherry Kristmann, MA, RHIT

email:  Sherry-Kristmann@smh.com

 

Joyce Ammon, CCS, CPC, CHCC

email:  JAmmons@mail.uch.org

 

Tracy Peabody, RHIA

email:  TPeabody@mail.uch.org

 

Mary Warren

email:  warren_m@firn.edu

 

 

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