President’s Message

Thank you for the opportunity to serve as the President of the Kentucky Health Information Management Association for the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year. It will be my great privilege to hold this office for the second time. Times have certainly changed in the 13 years since I last served as President. The faces and names have changed; everyone has gotten so young. That tends to happen when you have spent almost 38 years in one career.

There have been so many advancements in all areas of our chosen profession. When I started in Medical Records we had paper records, doctors hand wrote progress notes in patient charts, everybody had to commute to work in facilities. Now we work in Health Information Management with Electronic Health Records and physicians use templates in computer programs to document treatment plans and patient care notes. Not to mention, many of us are working remotely in our pajamas if we choose to do that. Change happens and we must change with it.

I would like to express my most heartfelt gratitude to the outgoing board, as well as the incoming board members. Together with the amazing membership we hope to do amazing things to contribute to the advancement of health information management in the coming year.

It is my hope that each of you will become an active member in AHIMA and by extension KHIMA. We have volunteer positions that are available if you would like to participate on a more active level. There are many benefits to being a member of AHIMA. When you are a member of AHIMA you are also a member of KHIMA if you choose us as your Component Association. By being a member, you also get a discount on meeting fees if you attend the KHIMA Annual Conference. If you choose to be a volunteer, there are additional perks as well.

I would love to see our membership increase this year and it would be exciting to break attendance records at our annual conference to be held in Richmond, Kentucky in April. More details to come later.

I look forward to working with all of you and hope that you all can join us at the annual conference. We always have a fun time and learn a lot at the same time.