William Rudman

William "Bill"  Rudman, PhD, RHIA, is the Executive Director of the AHIMA Foundation and Vice President of Education Visioning for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Before taking this job, Dr. Rudman worked for 20 years in Academia as a Professor in health information management. Dr. Rudman directed a doctoral program in Health Services Research and Dean of Research at the University of Tennessee.  Dr. Rudman also served as the director of the HIT core for the Delta Regional Institute and oversaw implementation of an electronic record exchange in rural Mississippi. He served on the state Mississippi Task force for health information exchange, chaired the education committee. Dr. Rudman was the PI on the HISPC grant for education and training for the implementation on electronic medical records for the state of Tennessee. In addition to hands on experience in the development, implementation, and training of those working in the field of HIM, Dr. Rudman has an extensive list of presentations, publications, and health information technology grants. Dr. Rudman has published over 65 referred articles, made of 140 scholarly presentations, and received over $50 million in NIH funded grants. Among those grants, Dr. Rudman served as either a PI or co-PI on funding for the Southern Mississippi health information exchange (currently the largest operating HIE in the US), a rural e-network of Mississippi hospitals, and a telemedicine grant to connect hospitals in the Delta Region in Mississippi. Currently, Dr. Rudman is overseeing the development of an HIT training program for rural physician offices.