GHWC is comprised of 13 appointed members from 12 countries aimed at ensuring the global workforce curricula are “internationally applicable, flexible and consistent, and provides a basis for the profession to be recognized by governments, higher education leader and employers in any country,” according to an AHIMA news release.
The hope is that a standardized global curricula will help guide educational programming and training to an elevated quality and number of health information management, health informatics and health IT specialists around the world, AHIMA CEO Lynne Thomas Gordon said.
The council will release a draft of the workforce curricula later this year for comment.
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