Live-Only Virtual Event
Overview
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM
Get Connected to Teams
8:15 AM – 8:30 AM
Welcome/Business Meeting
Donna Pritchard, OAHIMA President
Rhonda Werdeman, Treasurer
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
This dynamic session challenges healthcare leaders to redefine what it means to lead with strength and authenticity. Blending resilience, ethics, and practical application, attendees will explore how to maintain balance, uphold compliance standards, and navigate workplace demands without losing themselves. Infused with “Kimberly-isms” and the “Healthcare Compliance Advocate” philosophy, this session empowers professionals to lead boldly, ethically, and with unwavering purpose.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
• Describe how resilience, integrity, and authenticity contribute to effective healthcare leadership.
• Identify ways to uphold compliance and ethical standards while managing workplace pressures and competing demands.
• Recognize the importance of balance, boundaries, and self-awareness in sustaining long-term professional growth.
• Apply practical leadership strategies that support ethical decision-making, confidence, and purpose-driven action.
• Explain how values-based leadership can strengthen trust, accountability, and team culture in healthcare settings.
Kimberly Jolivette Williams, CPCO, CPC, CPB, CPMA, CANPC, CCC, CEMC
1.0 – Organizational Management and Leadership
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Break (Door Prize Drawings)
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Today’s healthcare organizations are facing a new paradox: instead of doing more with less, we are forced to do more with more. As data volumes scale at unprecedented rates, this abundance of information often causes operational friction, leading to analysis paralysis and bottlenecks in the health information lifecycle.
This session tackles the challenge of data overload head-on, focusing on practical ways to extract clear, actionable intelligence from complex health information. We will examine how AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are synthesizing the 80% of healthcare data that remains unstructured, transforming the noise into actionable intelligence. Attendees will learn how to navigate this shift to enhance data integrity, optimize revenue cycles, and reclaim operational efficiency.
Learning Objectives:
• Specifically identifying risks to patient record integrity and care tracking.
• Evaluate how to successfully integrate NLP and Machine Learning within information governance and automated process management.
• Construct a robust governance framework for AI oversight, ensuring data privacy, bias mitigation, and compliance across health information exchanges.
Erin Head, MBA, RHIA, CHDA, CCS, CHTS-TR
1.0 – Data Structure, Content and Information Governance, Informatics, Analytics and Data Use
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Medical coding professionals work in an increasingly information-dense environment, where coding guidance, payer policies, audit findings, organizational instructions, education, and personal reference notes often exist across multiple disconnected sources. When information is fragmented, even experienced professionals can lose valuable time searching, repeat prior research, overlook updated guidance, or struggle to consistently apply information in the context in which it was intended.
This session introduces a practical, platform-neutral framework for building a personal coding knowledge system that supports efficient information retrieval, stronger coding judgment, and sustainable professional growth. Using the C.O.D.E. Knowledge Framework, participants will explore how to transform scattered coding references into a structured, searchable, and maintainable resource. Attendees will learn how to identify appropriate information for inclusion, organize references based on how they are actually retrieved in daily work, preserve authoritative sources and effective dates, and incorporate safeguards related to privacy, organizational policy, and compliance. The framework can be adapted to a variety of approved platforms and workflows, allowing participants to create a system that reflects their individual role, specialty, and professional needs.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Identify common challenges associated with fragmented coding information and explain how structured knowledge management can support efficient retrieval, consistent application, and coding performance.
2. Apply the C.O.D.E. Knowledge Framework to organize coding guidance, payer policies, audit findings, educational resources, and other professional references within a platform-neutral personal knowledge system.
3. Develop a sustainable approach for documenting source authority, context, review dates, and compliance considerations while maintaining and evolving a coding knowledge system over time.
Emily Montemayor, CCS, COC, CPC, CPMA, CMBCS, QMRAC, CPA-EDU, CPC-I
1.0 – Data Structure, Content, and Information Governance
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Lunch On Your Own
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Accurate coding and compliant reimbursement often depend on understanding how payer policies intersect with clinical documentation and coding guidelines. However, many denials occur because payer policy requirements are misunderstood or not fully reflected in the documentation.
This presentation will explore how healthcare professionals can better interpret payer policies and apply them in real-world coding, auditing, and revenue cycle scenarios. Attendees will gain practical insights into identifying documentation gaps, aligning coding practices with payer requirements, and strengthening compliance while supporting accurate reimbursement.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Understand how to interpret payer policies and coverage guidelines in daily coding and auditing practice.
• Identify common documentation gaps that lead to denials or reimbursement issues.
• Apply payer policy interpretation to real-world coding and compliance scenarios.
Marie Laguerre, CPC, CRC, CRCR RHIA-Eligible
1.0 – Revenue Cycle Management
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM
Break (Door Prize Drawings)
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
As health information work continues to expand across providers, payers, vendors, public health, research, education, and emerging digital health environments, the language and frameworks used to describe the profession have not kept pace. This session introduces the Health Information Continuum™, a conceptual framework that organizes HI work around shared competencies and the lifecycle of health data rather than physical setting. Drawing on workforce evidence, an ILHIMA membership survey, and a survey of HI/HIM program directors, the session examines how continuum-based thinking can strengthen professional identity, inform educational practice, and support the AHIMA mission of empowering people to impact health. Attendees will explore practical applications of the framework for advising, mentoring, curriculum, and professional engagement.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
• Describe the Health Information Continuum™ and the breadth of practice settings, roles, and competencies it represents across the health data lifecycle.
• Examine workforce and educator survey findings that illustrate the diversity of HI roles and gaps between workforce realities and educational exposure.
• Identify transferable HI competencies that support career mobility across provider, payer, vendor, public health, education, research, and emerging environments.
• Apply the Health Information Continuum™ to at least one area of professional identity development, mentoring, curriculum, or association engagement.
Angela Campbell, MSHI, RHIA, FAHIMA
Leah Grebner, PhD, RHIA, CCA, FAHIMA
1.0 – Evolving Topics
3:00 PM
Adjourn
Course Info
Event Date
September 11, 2026
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM CST
* This is a live webinar only.
Total CEs
5.0
Domain(s)
Organizational Management and Leadership
Revenue Cycle Management
Data Structure, Content, and Information Governance
Pricing
OAHIMA Member
$40
Non-Member
$50
Student
$0
Speakers
Additional Information
AHIMA
This educational offering has been approved for continuing education credit for use in fulfilling the continued education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
AAPC
CEUs are accepted from programs sponsored by AHIMA national offices and the state or regional AHIMA branches. One hour of instruction is worth one CEU. A certificate of attendance or completion is necessary to show participation.
ACDIS
AHIMA CEUs that are CDI-related are accepted.
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Registration will close at 11:59 PM CT on September 9, 2026.
Registration is limited to 300 people.
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