Aligning the American Health Information Management Association Entry-level Curricula Competencies and Career Map With Industry Job Postings: Cross-sectional Study

Susan H Fenton   ^{1 *} , RHIA, PhD ;   David T Marc   ^{2 *} , CHDA, PhD ;   Angela Kennedy   ^{3 *} , RHIA, MBA, EdD ;   Debra Hamada   ^{4 *} , RHIA, MS, EdD ;   Robert Hoyt   ^{5 *} , ABPM-CI, MD ;   Karima Lalani   ^{1 *} , RHIA, MBA, PhD ;   Connie Renda   ^{6 *} , RHIA, CHDA, MA ;   Rebecca B Reynolds   ^{7 *} , RHIA, EdD

¹ School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States

² Department of Health Informatics and Information Management, The College of St Scholastica, Duluth, MN, United States

³ Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM), Chicago, IL, United States

⁴ Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, United States

⁵ Department Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States

⁶ Department of Health Information Technology and Health Information Management, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA, United States

⁷ Department of Health Informatics and Information Management, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States

*all authors contributed equally