Health Information Management: Concepts, Principles, and Practice, Second Edition
Kathleen M. LaTour,MA, RHIA, FAHIMA is an assistant professor and chair of the department of healthcare informatics and information management (HIIM) at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. She is an active member of the Minnesota Health Information Management Association, where she was selected as the Distinguished Member in 1992. She has served as chair and member of many AHIMA councils and as a member of AHIMA’s Board of Directors from 1993 to 1997. She participated in the development of the AHIMA Model Curricula for both bachelor’s- and master’s-level programs. She has authored several articles and recently contributed a chapter to Health Information Management Technology: An Applied Approach, second edition, a textbook published by AHIMA in 2006. She was awarded fellowship in AHIMA in recognition of sustained contributions to the field of HIM and, in 2004, was corecipient of AHIMA’s Legacy Award.Shirley Eichenwald Maki,MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, is an assistant professor in the department of healthcare informatics and information management at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. She also serves as project director for The ATHENS Project (css.edu/programs/athens), a health sciences EHR curriculum model project funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Title III program. She is the 2001 recipient of the College of St. Scholastica’s Max H. Lavine Award for Teaching Excellence. A former president of AHIMA, she was awarded the association’s Distinguished Member Award in 1998. In addition, she coauthored with Merida L. Johns, PhD, RHIA, AHIMA’s White Paper on the Health and Well-being of HIM Education. She has held the position of director of education and accreditation at AHIMA and has served as an HIM consultant with Pyramid Health Solutions and Quadramed’s HIM Division. Finally, she was awarded fellowship in AHIMA in recognition of sustained contributions to the field of HIM and, in 2004, was corecipient of AHIMA’s Legacy Award.