Call for Expression of Interest – Membership of HIMAA Education Committee

HIMAA is seeking Expressions of Interest (EoI’s) from members to join its national Education Committee. The Committee and its specialist Sub-committees and Working Groups have a busy agenda to:

Keep abreast of trends and developments in the healthcare sector that impact upon the profession or require HIMAA members to acquire updated skills and knowledge
Provide strategic advice to the Board of Directors on (i) all matters concerning education of the health information management workforce, and (ii) the higher education landscape
Create and maintain currency of HIMAA’s professional competencies and Competency Standards
Advise the Accreditation Council on HIMAA’s minimum professional educational standards and requirements
Inform, manage and support HIMAA’s
Engagement with higher education providers and other stakeholders in health information-related formal education
Professional Development (PD) program – in collaboration with the CEO’s operational management
Inform HIMAA’s Professional Credentialling Scheme (PCS)

Examples of current work of the Education Committee and its Sub-committees and Working Groups:

Developing or renewing sub-sets of Entry-level Health Information Manager (HIM) Competency Standards for (i) Health Data Analytics and (ii) Clinical Document Integrity
Rolling updates of all HIM professional Competency Standards
Researching and developing Clinical Coder workplace performance standards
Revising and streamlining HIMAA’s PCS
Re-focusing and strengthening the content of HIMAA’s PD Program

Selection criteria – Essential

Membership: Current membership of HIMAA in all categories, except Student Member.
Experience: Minimum five years’ of post-graduation professional health information management or clinical coding experience as a senior HIM, health information management course co-ordinator, or HIM or Clinical Coder practitioner in at least one of the profession’s domains:
- health information management (operational and governance; policy; privacy; medico-legal; auditing; statutory reporting; clinical documentation integrity; quality management)
- health classification (clinical coding; funding applications; auditing; clinical claims; classification development)
- health ICT and informatics (EMR or other health system or database development, implementation, or management)
- health data analytics, population health data management, managerial epidemiology, or research.

Additional note re eligibility

HIMAA members who undertake expert casual, sessional or guest lecturing or tutoring, are eligible to apply.
The following members are not eligible to apply owing to potential conflict of interest:
- Full or part-time heads, co-ordinators or teaching members of academic units that offer a health information management, clinical coding or related (e.g. health informatics, digital health, practice management) course.
- Members of the HIMAA Accreditation Council, except the Chair.

Eligible HIMAA members are encouraged to submit an EOI by email, with:

One paragraph briefly explaining the nature of their interest
A second paragraph briefly outlining how their experience and qualifications address the selection criteria
Attached resumé.

EoI’s should be emailed to the office of the CEO at: executiveoffice@himaa.org.au by 9.00am, Monday 6 September 2021.

The selection panel will comprise representatives of the Education Committee.

For further information, contact: Dr Kerin Robinson, Chair-Education Committee, at educationcommittee@himaa.org.au

Note: All HIMAA members (excepting Student Members), regardless of length of post-graduation experience, are most welcome to apply for membership of the Education Committee’s Sub-committees and Working Groups, for which separate EoIs are issued.

Call for Expression of Interest – Membership of HIMAA Education Committee

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