Health Information
By - Abdelhak, Mervat , Grostick, SaraCALL NO: 610.285 ABD 2012
4th ed
Notes: include index
Well-known and respected authorship: Abdelhak and Hanken past presidents of the AHIMA. Abdelhak still activity involved on AHIMA committees. Grostick, 2007 AHIMA Triumph award winner for excellence in education. All HIM educators and professionals know and respect these author/editors Unique! Available in the e-book Evolve Select format Having this book available in an electronic format will help win new adoptions This market is incredibly tech-savvy and has fully embraced the online education environment. Evolve select will truly benefit students as a core standard of HIM education is researching, abstracting and managing data electronically. Book's focus will continue to be on the electronic health care record It is an initiative of the AHIMA and the U.S. government for all patient records to go electronic. HIM professionals will be the backbone of these efforts. Students will be better educated in the electronic methods of organizing, maintaining and abstracting from the patient health care record. New! Self-Assessment Quizzes and Did You Know? Boxes New self-assessment quizzes are added periodically throughout the text to test student learning and retention. Answers are available on the Evolve Resources site. Did You Know? boxes present students with interesting facts to enhance learning. Students are able to self-test to enhance their learning experience. Did You Know? boxes help to break up the text and add interest. Student Study Guide Now on Evolve The Student Study guide will be filled with interactive exercises and cases containing real-life medical records. It will allow for application of what was learned from the book and in the classroom. The AHIMA is focusing much more on actual applied learning experiences. The student study guide will fulfill the need that instructors will have for giving students more applied learning. Feature Evolve Logos within the textbook that will direct the student to the Evolve site, tying together the textbook, student study guide and the Evolve Learning Resource site. Reviewers of the third edition complained that they didn't know of a web site or a study guide. To help tie the learning experience together, there are Evolve logos featured throughout the text which direct the reader to the Evolve site, where the Study Guide is located. This feature will tie it all together for them in a complete package. Instructors will be given ample teaching content in different formats. Students will be given a variety of learning experiences, via the text, the study guide and on-line through the Evolve learning resources sites. Evolve Learning Resources Site This site will contain a course management system and a robust set of content that will include more application and scenario based cases with exercises. An Evolve Logo will be included throughout the textbook that will direct students to the Evolve site. The Instructor site will contain the TEACH IRM, and industry news/updates in the field of health information management. This will again give students more opportunity to test their knowledge and their analytical/critical thinking skills. New! TEACH IRM TEACH will contain lesson plans, lecture outlines and Power Points for every chapter. It will also include the test bank and of course all of the answer keys to the online Study Guide and test bank. HIM education involves many adjunct instructors. The TEACH IRM available on Evolve only will serve as a huge help to adjunct instructors who are new to teaching. New self-assessment quizzes are added periodically throughout the text to test student learning and retention. Answers are available on the Evolve Resources site. Did You Know? boxes present students with interesting facts to enhance learning. To help tie the learning experience together, there are new Evolve logos featured throughout the text which direct the reader to the Evolve site, where the Study Guide is located. This feature will tie it all together for them in a complete package. New to this edition, TEACH will contain lesson plans, lecture outlines and Power Points for every chapter. It will also include the test bank and of course all of the answer keys to the online Study Guide and test bank.