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The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) will announce its "HIM Jobs for America" Initiative at the association's 83rd annual convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, in what the eighty-year-old, 63,000-member professional society says will be a sustained effort to support American employment as well as help improve the healthcare of underserved Americans in communities across the country in which research shows healthcare disparities exist based on race, income and geographic variables.
AHIMA noted its workforce initiative will be buttressed by news of an existing partnership, announced simultaneously, between the Department of Health and Human Services, AHIMA and North Shore Medical Labs, Inc. In this program, AHIMA will provide free health IT training to providers and staff in underserved communities, and North Shore will donate electronic health record (EHR) software and services through Nortec Software, Inc. The demonstration program will assist physicians in small practices in Alabama, Mississippi and North Carolina.
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