Population Health: Identifying Skill Sets and Education Alignment for HIM Professionals.

Q3 Medicine Perspectives in health information management / AHIMA, American Health Information Management Association Pub Date : 2020-12-07 eCollection Date: 2021-01-01

Shannon H Houser, Cathy A Flite, Susan L Foster, Thomas J Hunt, Lakesha Kinnerson, Miland N Palmer, Jennifer Peterson, Roberta Darnez Pope, Linda Sorensen

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the emphasis on population health, therefore potentially amplifying demand for healthcare workforce professionals in this area. There is an urgent need to explore and define the roles of health information management (HIM) professionals in the population health workforce. This study sought to identify the skill sets and qualifications needed, and HIM education alignment with skills necessary for HIM professionals entering the population health workforce. An intentionally broad internet search of job postings was conducted to determine skills in population health. Population health-related job descriptions and qualification requirements were abstracted and analyzed using ATLAS.ti. Three common job categories were identified: management, analytics, and coding. Skill set requirements included soft skills, problem solving, project management, research, and data analysis. The study results identified HIM educational alignment and found that HIM professionals are generally a good fit to meet the increased need in the population health workforce.

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人口健康:确定卫生保健专业人员的技能组合和教育一致性。

2019冠状病毒病大流行增加了对人口健康的重视，因此可能会扩大对该领域卫生保健专业人员的需求。迫切需要探索和确定卫生信息管理(HIM)专业人员在人口卫生工作队伍中的作用。这项研究试图确定所需的技能和资格，以及卫生保健教育与进入人口卫生工作队伍的卫生保健专业人员所需的技能相一致。有意广泛地在互联网上搜索招聘信息，以确定人口健康方面的技能。使用ATLAS.ti对与人口健康相关的职位描述和资格要求进行了抽象和分析。确定了三个常见的工作类别:管理、分析和编码。技能要求包括软技能、解决问题、项目管理、研究和数据分析。研究结果确定了卫生保健教育的一致性，并发现卫生保健专业人员通常很适合满足人口卫生工作人员日益增加的需求。

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期刊介绍： Perspectives in Health Information Management is a scholarly, peer-reviewed research journal whose mission is to advance health information management practice and to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between HIM professionals and others in disciplines supporting the advancement of the management of health information. The primary focus is to promote the linkage of practice, education, and research and to provide contributions to the understanding or improvement of health information management processes and outcomes.