Thought Leaders Lecture Series
Thought Leaders is a lecture series established by the AHIMA Foundation's funding initiative, Transforming Health Information. Thought Leaders presents an opportunity for health information management (HIM) professionals - including corporate executives and AHIMA members - to engage with industry leaders about the field's cutting-edge topics. Featuring presentations by leading educators, researchers, and practitioners from the HIM field and beyond, Thought Leaders provides valuable insights into managing the internal and external requirements regarding the critical flow of quality health information. Lectures are recorded and made available online as a special series for students, practitioners, and others interested in the field.
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Gail Collins, first woman editor of the New York Times' editorial page, and New York Times syndicated opinion columnist and blogger
The third lecture in the AHIMA Foundation Thought Leaders lectures series took place at the 2011 AHIMA Convention and Exhibit in Salt Lake City, UT on October 4, 2011. Our featured speaker, Gail Collins, addressed the topic of "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present."
In her remarks (embedded below), Ms. Collins noted that it was not very long ago that skirts, girdles and stocking wer required wearing for any working woman. Credit was something you only got with the help of a male-co-signer. The average woman married at 20, and anyone who wasn't at least engaged by junior year in college was looked upon as a piteous old maid in the making. Then, within the historical blink of an eye, everything changed. Ms. Collins tells the amazing, funny and inspiring story of how the image of American Women changed from kitchen-bound mom in "Leave it to Beaver" to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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2010 - Peter Salgo, MD, Healthcare Futurist and Medical Crisis Expert: The Future of Healthcare
Featured speaker Peter Salgo, MD, Healthcare Futurist and Medical Crisis Expert, addressed the topic of "The Future of Healthcare." Dr. Salgo notes that in addition to saving money and making care more efficient, health IT has an important role in outreach, particularly related to preventative health and wellness initiatives. He states that mining health information will allow physicians and other healthcare professionals to "use data and see what keeps people healthy and prove that interventions make people healthier." For HIM professionals, Dr. Salgo says, "all of this will fall on you to manage health information, research data, and to make medical policy on what works and what doesn't."
2010 - Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs: Driving Research Results into Practice
Featured speaker Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs and on-air health analyst for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, addressed the topic of "Driving Research Results Into Practice." Ms. Dentzer addressed the critical need to move research findings into implementation, best practice and solutions as quickly as possible - particularly during this time of massive change in the healthcare industry. Ms. Dentzer outlined five key challenges facing this rapid-cycle learning process.
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