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Mission Statement

Perspectives in Health Information Management is a scholarly, peer-reviewed research journal whose mission is to advance health information management practice and to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between HIM professionals and others in disciplines supporting the advancement of the management of health information. The primary focus is to promote the linkage of practice, education, and research and to provide contributions to the understanding or improvement of health information management processes and outcomes.

Contact

E-mail: perspectives@ahima.org

Co-Editors
C. Andrew Brown, MD, MPH
Director, Patient Safety Center
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
abrown@medicine.umsmed.edu

William J. Rudman, PhD
Professor of Health Information Management
Department of Health Information Management
School of Health-Related Professions
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
brudman@shrp.umsmed.edu

News and Announcements

November 2007
PHIM Indexed in PubMed Central

AHIMA is proud to announce that its online open-access research journal, Perspectives in Health Information Management has been indexed in PubMed Central. PubMed Central is the National Institutes of Health’s digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. The complete PHIM archive is available at www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=486&action=archive.

July 2007
PHIM Indexed in Google Scholar

The archive of Perspectives in Health Information Management is now available in the search engine Google Scholar. Google Scholar enables users to search across many disciplines and sources for the most relevant scholarly research. Visit www.scholar.google.com for more information.

February 2007
PHIM Indexed in CINAHL

Perspectives in Health Information Management has been indexed in the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL). CINAHL is the premier database covering nursing and allied health used by researchers, teachers, and students throughout healthcare. To access the PHIM archive, visit www.cinahl.com. For information on establishing a CINAHL account, visit www.cinahl.com/prodsvcs/prodsvcs.htm.

September 2006
PHIM Announces New Co-editors

Perspectives in Health Information Management, AHIMA’s online, open-access research journal, is pleased to announce the appointment of two new co-editors. C. Andrew Brown, MD, MPH, is a professor of medicine and the director of the patient safety center at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. William J. Rudman, PhD, is a professor of health information management at the University of Mississippi medical Center in Jackson, MS.

Both Brown and Rudman have served on the editorial review board of PHIM since its inception in 2004 and bring with them a wealth of knowledge, publication experience, and a combined total of more than 21 years in HIM. For more information on Perspectives on Health Information Management and how you can submit a manuscript, please visit www.ahima.org/perspectives.

July 2006
PHIM Selected for Inclusion in MEDLINE

AHIMA is proud to announce that its online open-access research journal, Perspectives in Health Information Management has been selected by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to be indexed in MEDLINE.

Launched in January 2004, Perspectives in Health Information Management will soon be included in MEDLINE along with the Journal of AHIMA which was accepted for indexing in MEDLINE in 1991.

The NLM uses an advisory committee, the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, composed of selected experts in the field of biomedicine, to review and recommend the journal titles NLM should index. Perspectives in Health Information Management journal content that will soon be indexed for MEDLINE will not only include forthcoming articles, but also all articles which have been published in the journal since our launch.

Perspectives in Health Information Management is a scholarly, peer-reviewed research journal whose mission is to advance health information management practice and to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between HIM professionals and others in disciplines supporting the advancement of the management of health information. The primary focus is to promote the linkage of practice, education, and research and to provide contributions to the understanding or improvement of health information management processes and outcomes. For more information about Perspectives in Health Information Management, please visit www.ahima.org/perspectives.

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