MHIMA MISSION STATEMENT: The Montana Health Information Management Association is the professional community and trusted source that improves healthcare by advancing best practices and standards for health information manage-ment.
Inside this issue:
President’s Message 1 MHIMA Business Mtg 2 \
Fall Meeting Wrap-up 3
MHIMA Nominations 3
Newly Certified! 5
Spring Meeting 6
Volunteer Form 8
MHIMA President’s Message Fall 2012
Happy Holidays to all of our MHIMA members! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that the coming few weeks is festive and joyful! My sincere apologies for the delay in our Fall newsletter – interesting how the implementation of an electronic health record consumes your life! I’m getting back on track now and am looking forward to 2013.
This year’s fall meeting was fairly well attended and I appreciate the conversations that we were able to have. We had a good discussion about transitioning to electronic health records and challenges, as well as best practices that we face on a day to day basis.
Jane Schumacher, Jennifer McManis and Traci Waugh represented our state association at this year’s House of Delegates session. My understanding is that they had a great experi-ence. AHIMA has redesigned the House of Delegate meeting to be more interactive and sharing than what has been the traditional meeting in the past. I believe this will provide additional feedback from the delegates on items that matter to their component state asso-ciations and more leadership training.
This year’s not-so-silent auction item at National Convention was a Montana made
wine and class basket. Traci Waugh graciously volunteered to coordinate this
do-nation and in return it contributed $210 to the AHIMA Foundation. Thanks again
Traci!
We have had a lot of changes announced for this coming year. For those that may
not know, Jennifer McManis has been elected to AHIMA’s Speaker of the House –
Elect. Her position starts in January and she will be stepping down from the Past
President position for MHIMA. Jane Schumacher has moved to Bismarck, ND and
is working as an Informaticist. She will finish out her term of President Elect until
June 30, but will not be transitioning to the President position. With that said, I
will remain as the MHIMA President for another term. Joanne Romasko has
gra-ciously agreed to return as Past President.
MHIMA will have several positions open in our election. We will be electing the
following positions: President Elect, Board of Director (1), Secretary, Treasurer
and Nominating committee. Please see further information in the newsletter from
acting chair Laure Agostinelli Hamel.
Our annual Spring meeting will be April 17-19, 2013 at the Best Western Grand
Tree in Bozeman. Jane Schumacher will be coordinating the meeting this year
and I will be requesting assistance from any of you who could help to organize.
Please email her at
[email protected]
if you are able to assist.
May you all have a wonderful holiday season. Make time for yourself and I look
for-ward to seeing you next April in Bozeman!
Sincerely,
MHIMA Business Meeting By Patti Reisinger
MHIMA Business Meeting Minutes September 20, 2012
8:00 – 9:00 am
I. General Business/Consent Agenda
Introductions – members introduced themselves as the sign-up sheet was passed around.
Business Meeting Minutes Approval – April 20, 2012
Minutes were approved.
Budget Review 2011 – 2012Traci updated on the budget
II. Environmental Scanning
RAC Audits:
RAC continues to increase volumes at the IPPS facilities
EHR ImplementationGood discussion amongst members about experiences with electronic record implementations – good experiences and chal-lenges were shared
III. Committee Updates
Fall Meeting summary
22 registered for bonus session and 36 for convention
Stacey Bradley and some of her staff providing session on Clinical Documentation Improvement
Bylaws – Quorum was available, Revised Bylaws for MHIMA were approved
Spring Meeting summary - April 17-19, 2013 in Bozeman with HFMA at the Grand Tree InnWith Jane’s move out of state, we’ll need a committee to work on planning and coordinating the event.
V. MHIMA Business
Silent Auction – Traci coordinated a made in Montana wine basket on behalf of MHIMA
Nominations for – The following current positions will be up for elections: President Elect, Board of Director (1), Secretary, Treasurer, Nominating Committee
IV. AHIMA Business
Jennifer McManis elected to Speaker of the House Elect
Fall Meeting Wrap-up
Submitted by Jane Schumacher, RHIA
MHIMA sponsored several sessions at the MHA Annual Convention in September. There
were a total of 36 registered under the HIM specialization, with 22 attending the coding bonus
session.
Stacey Bradley and Bridgett Siemens, along with their knowledgeable team from Kalispell
Re-gional provided coding bonus session attendees with a wealth of valuable information related
to clinical documentation improvement. Stacey and Christine Seager also provided a CDI
overview concurrent session.
Kathryn Peterson, Healthcare Informatics Tech program director at MSU-Great Falls College
of Technology provided an excellent overview of process analysis and how this activity can
enhance quality of patient care. As we move toward increased use of electronic medical
re-cords, process and workflow analysis is a key success factor.
Thank you to everyone who attended the MHA convention, as well as the MHIMA Business
meeting at that event! Although our group was small, it was great to have a “round table” type
of discussion about the various happenings in our HIM world. Your feedback to the
organiza-tion is greatly appreciated!
MHIMA Nominations
It’s your chance to get involved more involved in MHIMA! There are several MHIMA
positions up for grabs in the upcoming election to be held in February 2013. Open
po-sitions include:
President-Elect
Secretary
Treasurer
Board Director (1 position)
Nominating Committee Representative (3 positions)
If you are interested in running for or learning more about any of these positions, or
know someone who would be a perfect fit, please contact one of our nominating
com-mittee members: Traci Waugh ([email protected]), Laurie Agostinelli Hines
Nora Aaron 7/28/2012 CCS MT Angela Alm 3/24/2012 CCS-P MT Julaine Anderson 1/28/2012 CCA MT Felecia BlackHoop 7/13/2012 RHIT MT Cindy Boggess 5/30/2012 RHIT MT Misti Bowles 2/23/2012 CCS-P MT Catherine Cline 3/30/2012 CCA MT Aundrea Cormier 12/8/2011 CCA MT
Kim Gordon 2/23/2012 CCA MT
Kim Gordon 7/14/2012 RHIT MT
William Grilley 4/14/2012 CCA MT Jillian Hicks 7/28/2012 CCS MT Shirley Hinther 10/27/2012 CCS MT
Gwen Hughes 6/6/2012 CHPS MT
Laurie Lea Kimball 1/28/2012 RHIT MT Cynthia Martin 9/25/2012 CCS MT Mary McMann 8/13/2012 RHIT MT Gay Mergenthaler 10/30/2012 CCA MT Christie Minemyer 11/16/2011 CCA MT Dawn Muckley 8/14/2012 CCA MT Melissa Nuebel 11/8/2012 CHDA MT Kimberly Nygard 11/26/2012 CCA MT Angela Plocher 12/17/2011 CCA MT Ryan Rottenbiller 9/1/2012 RHIT MT Tanja Schilger 5/26/2012 CCS MT Tanja Schilger 4/18/2012 CCA MT
Karen Turk 6/16/2012 CCA MT
Noreen Udall 4/11/2012 CCS MT DeDee Williams 7/14/2012 RHIA MT
