{"id":1521380,"date":"2026-03-30T18:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:36:13","slug":"welcome-joanne-crago-our-new-medical-coding-community-facilitator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Joanne<\/span> Crago<\/span>, CHIM, CCCS<\/strong><\/p>

Community Facilitator, Medical Coding<\/strong><\/p>

Joanne<\/span> Crago<\/span> is a Certified Health Information Management Professional (CHIM), since 2017 and also has her Certified Classification and Coding Specialist, since 2019. Joanne<\/span> currently works as a Sr. Coding and Data Quality Specialist with Lakeridge Health.\u00a0<\/div>
\u00a0<\/div>
Joanne<\/span> has experience in many coding areas –\u00a0 Emergency, Day Surgery, Inpatient and Oncology. With this background knowledge, Joanne<\/span> is currently working as a Sr. Coding and Data Quality Specialist working with coders to maintain data quality and coding accuracy, training and education, as well as submission to CIHI.\u00a0<\/div>

\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconnect with Joanne<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joanne Crago, CHIM, CCCS Community Facilitator, Medical Coding Joanne Crago is a Certified Health Information Management Professional (CHIM), since 2017 and also has her Certified Classification and Coding Specialist, since 2019. Joanne currently works as a Sr. Coding and Data Quality Specialist with Lakeridge Health.\u00a0\u00a0Joanne has experience in many coding areas –\u00a0 Emergency, Day Surgery, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1521382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[1288,357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025-year","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWelcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator - Health Information Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joanne Crago, CHIM, CCCSCommunity Facilitator, Medical CodingJoanne Crago is a Certified Health Information Management Professional (CHIM), since 2017 and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Welcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Joanne Crago, CHIM, CCCSCommunity Facilitator, Medical CodingJoanne Crago is a Certified Health Information Management Professional (CHIM), since 2017 and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Health Information Canada\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialCHIMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-30T22:33:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-30T22:36:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lindsay Selinger\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lindsay Selinger\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lindsay Selinger\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b8a613b1e919755d826d6555390a3966\"},\"headline\":\"Welcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-30T22:33:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-30T22:36:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380\"},\"wordCount\":104,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/15.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"2025\",\"Announcements\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380\",\"name\":\"Welcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator - Health Information Canada\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/15.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-30T22:33:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-30T22:36:13+00:00\",\"description\":\"Joanne Crago, CHIM, CCCSCommunity Facilitator, Medical CodingJoanne Crago is a Certified Health Information Management Professional (CHIM), since 2017 and\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/15.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/15.webp\",\"width\":1500,\"height\":1500},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?p=1521380#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Welcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/\",\"name\":\"Health Information Canada\",\"description\":\"Canadian Health Information\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"Health Info Canada\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Health Information Canada\",\"alternateName\":\"Health Info Canada\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/03\\\/chima-logo@2x.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/03\\\/chima-logo@2x.webp\",\"width\":1886,\"height\":408,\"caption\":\"Health Information Canada\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/OfficialCHIMA\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/company\\\/chima\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/@healthinfocanada\"],\"description\":\"CHIMA represents more than 5,900 health information members from coast to coast to coast. It advocates for the health information profession, monitors industry trends, develops and facilitates continuing education and connects its members with employment opportunities in the health care sector and beyond. The Canadian College of Health Information Management is a national, not-for-profit corporation that sets the accreditation standards for educational institutions and certification standards for health information professionals in Canada.\",\"email\":\"general@echima.ca\",\"telephone\":\"1-519-438-6700\",\"legalName\":\"Canadian Health Information Management Association\",\"foundingDate\":\"1942-08-23\",\"numberOfEmployees\":{\"@type\":\"QuantitativeValue\",\"minValue\":\"11\",\"maxValue\":\"50\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/healthinfocanada.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b8a613b1e919755d826d6555390a3966\",\"name\":\"Lindsay Selinger\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Welcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator - Health Information Canada","description":"Joanne Crago, CHIM, CCCSCommunity Facilitator, Medical CodingJoanne Crago is a Certified Health Information Management Professional (CHIM), since 2017 and","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Welcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator","og_description":"Joanne Crago, CHIM, CCCSCommunity Facilitator, Medical CodingJoanne Crago is a Certified Health Information Management Professional (CHIM), since 2017 and","og_url":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380","og_site_name":"Health Information Canada","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialCHIMA","article_published_time":"2026-03-30T22:33:38+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-03-30T22:36:13+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1500,"height":1500,"url":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Lindsay Selinger","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Lindsay Selinger","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380"},"author":{"name":"Lindsay Selinger","@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/b8a613b1e919755d826d6555390a3966"},"headline":"Welcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator","datePublished":"2026-03-30T22:33:38+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-30T22:36:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380"},"wordCount":104,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15.webp","articleSection":["2025","Announcements"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380","url":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380","name":"Welcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator - Health Information Canada","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15.webp","datePublished":"2026-03-30T22:33:38+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-30T22:36:13+00:00","description":"Joanne Crago, CHIM, CCCSCommunity Facilitator, Medical CodingJoanne Crago is a Certified Health Information Management Professional (CHIM), since 2017 and","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15.webp","width":1500,"height":1500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?p=1521380#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Welcome Joanne\u00a0Crago, Our New Medical Coding Community Facilitator"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/#website","url":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/","name":"Health Information Canada","description":"Canadian Health Information","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/#organization"},"alternateName":"Health Info Canada","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/#organization","name":"Health Information Canada","alternateName":"Health Info Canada","url":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/chima-logo@2x.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/chima-logo@2x.webp","width":1886,"height":408,"caption":"Health Information Canada"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialCHIMA","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/chima","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@healthinfocanada"],"description":"CHIMA represents more than 5,900 health information members from coast to coast to coast. It advocates for the health information profession, monitors industry trends, develops and facilitates continuing education and connects its members with employment opportunities in the health care sector and beyond. The Canadian College of Health Information Management is a national, not-for-profit corporation that sets the accreditation standards for educational institutions and certification standards for health information professionals in Canada.","email":"general@echima.ca","telephone":"1-519-438-6700","legalName":"Canadian Health Information Management Association","foundingDate":"1942-08-23","numberOfEmployees":{"@type":"QuantitativeValue","minValue":"11","maxValue":"50"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/b8a613b1e919755d826d6555390a3966","name":"Lindsay Selinger"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521380"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521390,"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521380\/revisions\/1521390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthinfocanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}