About ASHIM

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An Introduction to ASHIM (PDF)

The American Society of Health Informatics Managers™, Inc is a professional member association for IT professionals who specialize in Health IT (HIT). ASHIM™ is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that conducts a nationally recognized credentialing exam to certify the healthcare industry knowledge of working level IT professionals, known as the Certified Health Informatics Systems Professional (CHISP™).
ASHIM™ members believe in the importance of a skilled Health IT workforce to best serve the needs of physicians who are using and adopting health IT.
Network professionals, database administrators, communication protocol specialists, web application designers, computer scientists, and software engineers and clinical applications trainers working successfully in Health Information Technology (HIT) recognize healthcare is an increasingly complex and exciting work environment.
ASHIM™ members believe that it is the addition of healthcare skills and knowledge that make an IT professional the best supporter of HIT. These skills help IT professionals make it easier for physicians to use HIT in a manner that improves patient outcomes and overall efficiencies such as: Doctors better able to assess quality, medical necessity, and provision of services and to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety and to more easily recognize and adhere to compliance of legal requirements, current interoperability standards, documentation, billing and payment systems .
ASHIM™ members are dedicated to ensuring effective outcomes by keeping current in the rapidly changing HIT environment and successfully communicating with non-IT healthcare professionals. They demonstrate expertise in the highly-specialized Health IT setting.
2009-2010 ASHIM™ Health IT Industry Advisory Panel:

Adam Michael Clark, Ph.D, Director of Research and Policy, Lance Armstrong Foundation

David Bates, MD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Frederick H. (Rick) Blake, Principal and Chief Health Strategist, Strategic Health Resources
James Walker, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Geisinger Health System
Joel White, Executive Director, Health IT Now Coalition
John Klimek, R.Ph., SVP of Industry IT, National Council for Prescription Drug Programs
Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, VP Information Services, Aurora Health Care
Michael Miscoe JD, CPC, CASCC, CUC, CHCC President, Practice Masters, Inc.
Michael Stearns, MD, CPC, CFPC™, President, CEO, e-MDs
Stephanie L. Jones, CPC, CEMC, SVP, American Society of Health Informatics Managers™
Shahid N. Shah, CEO, Netspective Communications
Tip Ghosh, CEO, Bloomsbury Consultin

The American Society of Health Informatics Managers™, Inc is the leading association for technical professionals who specialize in Health IT (HIT). ASHIM™ is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that sponsors a credentialing exam known as the Certified Health Informatics Systems Professional (CHISP™).

Our mission is to recognize the individual value of each ASHIM member to support the future of healthcare by providing skill certification, education, community involvement, and member service to the Health IT workforce.

ASHIM members are:  One Person.  Two areas of expertise—  Healthcare and Information Technology.

• EHR Implementation Specialists
• Network Professionals
• Database Administrators
• Data Communications Specialists
• Information Security Specialists
• Software Programmers
• Clinical Applications Trainers
• Other technical professionals working successfully in Health Information Technology (HIT).

ASHIM™ members believe that it is the addition of healthcare skills and knowledge that make a technical professional the best supporter of HIT. These skills help Health IT professionals make it easier for physicians to use HIT in a manner that improves patient outcomes and overall efficiencies, such as the ability to better assess quality, medical necessity, and provision of services and to reduce medical errors while improving patient safety. It also makes it easier for health care providers to recognize and adhere to compliance of legal requirements, current interoperability standards, and documentation, billing and payment systems. CHISP™ certified Health IT professionals are dedicated to ensuring effective HIT outcomes by keeping current in this rapidly changing environment and successfully communicating with non-IT healthcare professionals. They demonstrate expertise in the highly-specialized Health IT setting.

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• Adam Michael Clark, Ph.D, Director of Research and Policy, Lance Armstrong Foundation
• David Bates, MD, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Frederick H. (Rick) Blake, Principal and Chief Health Strategist, Strategic Health Resources
• James Walker, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Geisinger Health System
• Joel White, Executive Director, Health IT Now Coalition
• John Klimek, R.Ph., SVP of Industry IT, National Council for Prescription Drug Programs
• Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, VP Information Services, Aurora Health Care
• Michael Miscoe JD, CPC, CASCC, CUC, CHCC President, Practice Masters, Inc.
• Michael Stearns, MD, CPC, CFPC™, President, CEO, e-MDs
• Stephanie L. Jones, CPC, CEMC, SVP, American Society of Health Informatics Managers™
• Shahid N. Shah, CEO, Netspective Communications
• Tip Ghosh, CEO, Bloomsbury Consulting