What are AHDIs objectives for continuing education?
Credentialing bodies and professional associations, including the American Society for Association Executives, are actively engaged in a new dialogue around recredentialing programs, and most experts in this domain are urging associations to take a fresh look at recredentialing policies and consider the fundamental question: Are your recredentialing policies advancing the professional development objectives of your organization? For AHDI, this is a critical question, as arguably no other work force in America is in greater need of “professional development objectives” than ours. With commoditization of traditional transcription changing the landscape of our services, emerging technologies like EHR and speech recognition technology systems reshaping the application of our tacit knowledge, and new roles in health care documentation forcing us to broaden our definition of a “documentation specialist,” we need a recredentialing program that makes sure our CMTs are advancing successfully th
