Mary Butler, senior editor of the Journal of AHIMA, speaks with Yolanda Simmons Battle, CMP, about the exciting features attendees can expect from the AHIMA20 virtual conference. Yolanda is the senior manager of meetings at AHIMA. Learn more about AHIMA20 at conference.AHIMA.org.

Host Dan Kelly speaks with this year's AHIMA Nominating Committee Chair Lauren Manson about how to vote in the upcoming AHIMA elections and why, as a member, your vote matters!

Host Dan Kelly speaks with a panel of leaders from Ciox about their efforts to build a comprehensive US-based COVID-19 patient data registry with LabCorp, combining both organization’s expert teams and considerable clinical resources. Guests: Julie Rockey, Jeannine Cain, Vishal Kapadia, and David Dyke.

Dianne Chappelle, MPA, RHIA, corporate director of HIM operations at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, talks about the changes she and her HIM associates faced in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in one of the nation's hot spots. Dealing with paper documents for patients at field hospitals; mobilizing an HIM department with an off-site team that had never worked remotely before; having CDI professionals who are also nurses deployed or redeployed to assist with active patient care—hear about these and other unique situations and challenges the pandemic posed and how Ms. Chappelle and her team handled them.

Note: Interview was conducted April 24, 2020.

Analytics, epidemiology, and health information management expert; Principal at StarBridge Advisors; and former Principal Deputy National Coordinator and CIO at Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator David Muntz talks about the pandemic, telehealth, privacy and security, data "first aid kits", digital health systems, the three biggest issues facing healthcare and HIM professionals, and the "evolution" AHIMA and its members can expect once the disaster passes.

CDI/HIM/revenue cycle professional Anny Pang Yuen RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, wrote a LinkedIN post three months ago that sparked a terrific discussion with currently more than 39,000 views. Ms. Yuen stressed "how important it is for hiring managers and leaders to understand that having a BSN does not automatically make you qualified for [a CDI] job". As an active and experienced member of the CDI community, Ms. Yuen expands on her post, addressing her statement that "it is the person who makes a successful CDI professional, not the background or credential."

This episode we speak with Bill Wagner, co-founder, COO, and security officer for KIWI-TEK, LLC, about the pandemic's effect on the coding field. Bill covers medical coding, the revenue cycle, off-shore coding, hospitals in high-crisis areas, employment issues for coders both before and after the pandemic, and the long and challenging path back to the new normal.

Wendy Mangin, director of Corporate Compliance at Good Samaritan, shares the experience she's gathered over a long and productive career. Hear her speak about positions she's held, tips on mentoring, recommended readings, the importance of volunteerism, and other vital matters to keep in mind while pursuing health information as a career.

We continue our series of COVID-19 podcasts by interviewing two physicians with strong backgrounds in HIM, HIT, compliance, and CDI. Today we're speaking with Dr. Beth Wolf and Dr. Timothy Brundage, both physicians and medical directors, about their experiences during the pandemic, managing the balance between patient care and accurate documentation, and how clinical data can help defeat the disease.

This episode, host Dan Kelly talks to five individual health information experts about a potpourri of topics and how they've changed (or will change) because of the pandemic. What's been happening and what's in store for clinical documentation improvement, coding, artificial intelligence software, daily HI practices, coders and others working remotely, telehealth, staffing issues, chronic disease population patients?

Interviewees include Beth Martin, Cheryl Ericson, Kathryn Vermillion, Autumn Reiter, and Staci Booth.