Center for Healthcare Innovation News http://www.centerforhealthcareinnovation.com/news.php The Center for Healthcare Innovation was established as a Center of Excellence by the College of St. Scholastica to foster innovative and sustainable methods to enhance healthcare. Take Action to Educate and Expand the Health Information Management Tue, 26 Aug 2008 http://www.centerforhealthcareinnovation.com/news.php?viewid=31 http://www.ahima.org/dc/positions/documents/MicrosoftWord-StatementonWorkforce-ApprovedJuly2008.pdf Special E-alert from the American Health Information Management Association Fri, 22 Aug 2008 http://www.centerforhealthcareinnovation.com/news.php?viewid=30 https://cop.ahima.org/COP/AHIMA/Resources/Attachment.fusion ?AttachmentID=28611 2008 Candidate Healthcare Reform Proposals: Side-by-side comparison Fri, 22 Aug 2008 http://www.centerforhealthcareinnovation.com/news.php?viewid=29 http://www.health08.org/sidebyside.cfm Change Leadership Institute Thu, 29 May 2008 http://www.centerforhealthcareinnovation.com/news.php?viewid=28 Please Save the Date for the Change Leadership InstituteStrategic management for healthcare leaders May 29th 1:00 - 7:00 pm and May 30th 7:00 -12:00 amheld at The College of St. Scholastica Duluth, MNpresented by:Center for Healthcare Innovation at The College of St. Scholastica www.centerforhealthcareinnovation.comandRural Health Innovations, a subsidiary of Rural Health Resource Center www.ruralhealthinnovations.com          For more informatio Spring 2008 Newsletter Mon, 12 May 2008 http://www.centerforhealthcareinnovation.com/news.php?viewid=25 Spring 2008 Newsletter Meet the Academic EHR Educators of the Month for April, 2008 Thu, 8 May 2008 http://www.centerforhealthcareinnovation.com/news.php?viewid=24 Congratulations to Valerie Defor, the Academic EHR Educator of the Month for April 2008.  Valerie is the Director of the Healthcare Education Industry Partnership, a Minnesota State Colleges and Universities initiative centered around healthcare workforce shortages/issues.She was nominated and chosen as April's Academic EHR Educator of the month for her innovative work integrating the Academic EHR into the Minnesota State Colleges and Univsersity system. Read her inspirin Meet the Academic EHR Educators of the Month for March, 2008 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 http://www.centerforhealthcareinnovation.com/news.php?viewid=23 Congratulations to Kerry Heinecke!Kerry is a Biomedical Informatics Technician instructor at Mid-State Technical College in the Wisconsin Technical College System. She was nominated and chosen as March's Academic EHR Educator of the month for her innovative work during 2007-2008 integrating the Academic EHR into the new Biomedical Informatics Technician program. Read her inspiring and fascinating story attached. Please consider nominating a colleague or yourself for Educator of the month. No