AHIMA Council for Excellence in Education™
Health information is complex, nuanced, and ever-changing. The AHIMA Council for Excellence in Education™ (CEE) was created to enhance the health information profession, plan for its future through education, and provide HI professionals with a way to get involved in the process.
The CEE advises AHIMA on education and workforce matters and their collective expertise strengthens the organization’s vision, mission, and strategies set by the AHIMA Board of Directors. The CEE also guides various AHIMA workgroups and the Professional Certificate Approval Program.
The CEE serves a three-fold purpose:
- The CEE sets the strategy for the academic community and serves as the liaison with the AHIMA Board and stakeholders.
- It serves as a coordinating and guiding body for the workgroups.
- The CEE is responsible for reviewing, developing, and approving curricula for health information at all educational levels based on the feedback received from the workforce, industry, and AHIMA membership.
Impact Health Information Education
Get involved with a CEE workgroup to be an agent of change in your profession and to raise your profile in the health information field. Volunteer opportunities include:
- Early Pathways & Student Engagement Workgroup: Builds awareness of health information/informatics careers among youth and non-traditional audiences. Drives student involvement through scalable, CA-enabled student engagement strategies.
- Workforce Readiness & Transition Workgroup: Equips students and emerging professionals with tools and connections needed to transition successfully from education into the workforce.
- Faculty Development Leadership Workgroup: Supports faculty and academic leaders across career stages through professional development, leadership pathways, and educator programming.
- Curricula, Competencies & Academic Standards Workgroup: Serves as the faculty-led engine for competency-to-curriculum alignment and stewardship of educator-facing curricular assets, including CourseShare.
- Research Workgroup: Identifies areas where AHIMA and the overall HI profession might benefit from additional quantitative and qualitative research that yields insight to facilitate understanding of HI’s impact among current practitioners, prospective students, industry vendors, hospital executives, and other stakeholders.
