AHIMA October 4, 2021
The primary focus of health information management (HIM) educators is preparing a modern workforce through the delivery of curricula content to meet the needs of the healthcare industry. From the inception of the accreditation of educational programs in HIM (formerly medical records) in the 1930s, AHIMA has established standards and competencies for accredited programs in HIM to achieve this goal.
September 1, 2021, marked the date all Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIIM)-accredited HIM programs must comply with the 2018 HIM Curricula Competencies. These competencies, developed by AHIMA’s Council for Excellence in Education (CEE) Curricula Workgroup and two HIM Reimagined (HIMR) workgroups, aim to “align HIM education with the skills and knowledge required to meet...