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AHDI Conference to Celebrate 40th Anniversary in Orlando

By Emily Senesac

The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) Annual Conference will be held from August 16–18 in Orlando, Florida. The conference is located just outside of SeaWorld and is only a few minutes from many other renowned attractions in the Central Florida area. For instance, conference attendees will have the opportunity to purchase special AHDI-discounted tickets to Disney World, with a variety of options and parks to visit.

This year’s conference, with the theme “Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Shaping the Future,” is designed to bring together a diverse group of health care professionals, including medical transcriptionists, educators, clinical documentation improvement specialists, transcription platform vendors, and more. Thursday night’s Welcome Reception, inviting guests to “Wear Red” in honor of AHDI’s 40th anniversary conference, offers attendees the chance to network with other professionals within the health care field. AHDI members can also get together on Friday night to see Blue Man Group at Universal Orlando Resort, with advance ticket purchasing options available online.

There is a wide array of topics to be covered over the duration of the conference, each of which falls into one of two categories: Game Changers and Learning Centers. Game Changers includes sessions such as “Improving Proficiency: Speech Recognition Editing Tips and Techniques,” “Coding 101: Why Documenting the Review of Systems and Physical Exam Matter,” and “The Transforming Power of EMDR Therapy.” The Learning Centers track offers sessions such as “Dueling Districts: An Epic Battle of the Minds,” “The Intricacies of Caring for Our Skin,” and “Sexual Harassment: Awareness of and Protection from a Mental Health Viewpoint.” These sessions can be viewed on the interactive schedule app, available at https://ahdiconf2018.sched.com/?iframe=no.

Foster R. Goss, DO, MMSc, FACEP, an emergency physician at the University of Colorado Hospital, will present the opening keynote, “Natural Language Processing to Improve the Accuracy and Quality of Dictated Medical Documents.” Joshua D. Stephany, MD, chief medical examiner of Orange County (Fla.), will present the session “Pulse Nightclub Tragedy.” Nasos Papadopolous, the Founder of MetaLearn learning platform, will deliver the closing session, “FutureProof Yourself: Becoming Indispensable Through Lifelong Learning.”

For more information or to register, visit www.ahdionline.org/page/conference.

— Emily Senesac is an editorial intern at Great Valley Publishing Company.