Annual Report for the Financial Year 2015 - 2016
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Health Information Management Association of Australia Limited ABN 54 008 451 910 RTO ID 91660 Annual Report for the Financial Year 2015 - 2016 October 2016 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION................................................................................................... 3 From the President............................................................................................... 4 From the CEO....................................................................................................... 8 2016 HIMAA Membership Survey......................................................................... 14 FINANCIAL REPORT........................................................................................... 17 EDUCATION SERVICES...................................................................................... 23 IMIT and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES................................... 24 COMMITTEES OF THE HIMAA BOARD.............................................................. 26 Clinical Coding Advisory Committee............................................................ 26 Conference Committee................................................................................ 27 Editorial Board............................................................................................. 27 Education Committee.................................................................................. 28 Practice Quality and Safety Standards Committee...................................... 30 Research Advisory Committee.................................................................... 31 HIMAA BRANCHES AND NETWORKS............................................................... 32 Capital Region ............................................................................................ 32 New South Wales ....................................................................................... 33 Queensland ................................................................................................ 35 South Australia........................................................................................... 36 Tasmania .................................................................................................. 37 HIMAA BOARD WORKING GROUPS.................................................................. 39 Positioning and Advocacy Working Group.................................................. 39 Workforce Working Group........................................................................... 40 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS........................................................................... 41 National Private Hospitals............................................................................ 41 NSW Private Hospitals................................................................................ 41 Rural and Remote........................................................................................ 43 Scanning and eHealth................................................................................. 44 Victorian Chief HIM...................................................................................... 44 Victorian Mental Health................................................................................ 45 REPRESENTATIVES........................................................................................... 46 CHIA............................................................................................................ 46 HL7.............................................................................................................. 47 IFHIMA......................................................................................................... 47 2 About HIMAA The Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) is the professional association for health information management professionals in Australia. Our members work in a variety of roles within and supporting the healthcare system, with primary occupations being qualified Health Information Managers (HIMs) and Clinical Coders. HIMAA recognises that the health information management profession is broader than HIMAA itself. However, HIMAA considers itself to be the key influencer and definer of the profession. We have been serving the profession in various iterations since 1949. HIMAA is a not for profit organisation governed by a Board of Directors who are HIMAA members. The Association has a national office in Sydney, staffed to deliver functionality in operationalising the HIMAA Vision, Mission and Strategic Plan in accordance with HIMAA Values. Our peer-reviewed journal, the Health Information Management Journal, is the only academic health information management journal in the world to achieve an international Thomson Reuters impact rating and DOI (digital object identifier) international citation referencing. HIMJ’s sister Journal, HIM Interchange, provides practice-based analysis and case studies for members of the profession. Our Australian Dictionary of Clinical Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols is the industry’s authoritative text. HIMAA relies on the volunteer contribution of members to achieve its objectives and deliver organisational governance. Membership support is provided at the local level through networking and continuing professional development (CPD) provided by State and Territory branches and networks, and nationally through our annual conference, which is of international standing. We are the major provider of education and training for Clinical Coders in Australia, and the national authority for the accreditation of HIM tertiary courses. Our Professional Credentialing Scheme offers practitioner quality assurance to the profession and employers. Our Clinical Coder Certification is the industry’s advanced standard. HIMAA also attracts members from a number of other countries, including New Zealand. Vision HIMAA positions the profession to foster leadership in health information best practice to support quality healthcare. Mission HIMAA promotes and supports our members as the universally recognised specialists in information management at all levels of the healthcare system. We do this through positioning and advocacy, education and training, quality standards, publications and resources, and HIMAA membership networking activities at local and national levels, including an annual national conference of international standing. Values Member Focus We exist because of and for our members, offering them value in products, services, networking, advocacy and support Professionalism We provide high quality, ethical services based on well-informed judgement and expert knowledge of the Health Information domain Ethical Practice We are ethical in all of our operations and are good stewards of our resources Equity We are equitable in the provision of services to our members, and treat everyone with respect This Annual Report for the 2015-16 Financial Year was distributed to the 51st Annual General Meeting of the Association, held in Melbourne on 10 November 2016. 3 FROM THE PRESIDENT It has been an honour to serve as your President over the last twelve months. As I took over from Immediate Past President Sallyanne Wissmann in November 2015, I knew that the work she and the HIMAA Board had commenced needed to continue, especially in the areas of increased member engagement, positioning and advocacy, education and the emerging workforce issues which have risen in ranking as a top priority for our profession’s two key occupations of Health Information Manager and Clinical Coder. MEMBERSHIP INVOLVEMENT HIMAA members have come together through committees, special interest groups and working groups to implement our 2014-2016 Strategic Plan and, as this comes to its end this year, your Board is now embarking on the development of a five year strategic plan to commence in 2017 and see us through to 2022. The new plan will be informed by the triennial HIMAA membership survey undertaken in May 2016, feedback from committees, working groups, special interest groups, branches and the Strategic Review Working Group co-chaired by Sallyanne Wissmann and Alicia Cook, with Board members and the Chairs of the Education Committee and the Workforce Working Group as members. I cannot thank those HIMAA members enough who put up their hands to help shape HIMAA over the last three years. We are a membership organisation and are here to respond to our members, however the HIMAA Board needs all members to engage in whatever way they can to allow us to be responsive and ensure the growth of the organisation. HIMAA will continue to put out expressions of interest for member engagement and though I appreciate the enormity of some of your roles, I ask that you bring to the table your skills and expertise which may require input into a report, sitting on a working group, involvement in your local branch, applying for a position on a HIMAA Board Committee or becoming a Board member. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CREDENTIALING I also call members to seriously consider enrolling in HIMAA’s professional credentialing scheme which was re-launched last year. In response to a standing question in our survey on HIMAA members’ motivation for membership, results show this remains similar in the 2013 and 2016 surveys. Your priorities include being kept informed of industry developments, supporting the profession, access to our publications, professional development, interaction with other HIM professionals; networking, career opportunities and