During the first week of November we celebrate the health information profession with Health Information and Technology week, November 2-8, 2008. On Rasmussen campuses with HIT programs, students and program directors are coordinating events to highlight this profession.
Why should we take time out of our busy schedules to get involved in these events? For several reasons:
· To engage student involvement in their future profession and to develop leadership skills
· To increase awareness of a somewhat obscurely-titled profession by creating a forum to articulate what health information technicians do
· To invite professionals in the field to visit our campus to celebrate and partner with us
· To include residential and online HIT students in activities that help them get to know each other
· To encourage student membership in our professional organization, AHIMA
· To answer questions about the HIT profession and ask others to consider the HIT profession
· To lighten up and have fun!
On the Green Bay campus, students are coordinating a HIT week potluck and membership drive as a way to get to know each other. We hope the other Rasmussen campuses are having as much fun as we are. If you see a HIT student or faculty member November 2-8, give them a word of congratulations for a job well done.
~Susan Johnson, RHIA, CCS
HIT Program Director
Green Bay campus