Lou Ann Wiedemann, MS, RHIA, FAHIMA, CDIP, CPEHR

Senior Director, HIM Practice Excellence

Lou Ann Wiedemann

Lou Ann Wiedemann provides professional expertise on health information management (HIM) practice issues. Her areas of expertise include the management and implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) and privacy. She provides her expertise to AHIMA members, the media, and outside organizations through articles, publications, and presentations. Prior to joining AHIMA in 2006, Ms. Wiedemann was employed as director of HIM at a large metropolitan academic medical facility. In this position she oversaw all HIM functions, including campus-wide record storage, reference lab billing, trauma registry functions, coding, and abstracting. Before this, she served in various HIM roles, ranging from assistant director of HIM to director of utilization review.