{"id":1504290,"date":"2019-10-31T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/grammar-tip-health-information-management-him\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T10:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:19:26","slug":"grammar-tip-health-information-management-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1504290","title":{"rendered":"Grammar tip: health information management \/ HIM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Unless it\u2019s part of a proper name, the term \u2018health information management\u2019 does not need to be capitalized.<\/li><li>Once you\u2019ve noted the acronym \u2018HIM,\u2019 you no longer need to spell out the full term for the remainder of the document.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are a few examples:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Canadian Health Information Management Association (Association) represents approximately 5,000 health information management (HIM) members across Canada.<\/li><li>We are a national association that represents leadership and excellence in health information management.<\/li><li>Jane Doe, certified classification and coding specialist with Trillium Hospital, is leading a seminar next month for other professionals in the health information management field.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless it\u2019s part of a proper name, the term \u2018health information management\u2019 does not need to be capitalized. Once you\u2019ve noted the acronym \u2018HIM,\u2019 you no longer need to spell out the full term for the remainder of the document. Here are a few examples:&nbsp; The Canadian Health Information Management Association (Association) represents approximately 5,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1504291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,359,356,136,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-349","category-articles","category-chima","category-type","category-year"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.3 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grammar tip: health information management \/ HIM - 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