I would like to share with you in this
message CRAHDI's 2011 accomplishments.
We have had a very interesting year.
We were able to send our delegate, Brenda Wynn, CMT, to Advocacy in Washington DC
in May of this year. There was a great
response from the legislators and an important opportunity for us as Medical
Transcriptions/Medical Language Specialists to enlighten everyone about the
importance of the Health Story. Now that
the EMR/HER is on everyone’s minds and Meaningful Use being talked about by all
of the health care industry it is doubly important that everyone understands
what we can bring to the plate to make health care in this country better. Brenda has agreed to be our social media specialist
( brenda.wynn@trcr.com ) this coming
year, 2012, and already has put in many hours on our CRAHDI Facebook page
please visit it and check it out.
Our delegate, Loretta Foulkrod, was sent to
ACE by CRAHDI as it has been an important time in AHDI's history. Not only was she our delegate, but she has worked
diligently this year as 2010-2011 AHDI-HOD National Strategic Initiatives
Committee Chair for the new governance of AHDI.
She gave uncounted hours of diligence on this committee in order to
bring this new governance forth for a vote by the individual members of our
association.
It has passed and we
now have a great future to work towards—we're in the 21st century working for
and with you the members for our professional identity and what we bring to
health care. We now have districts with
1 elected person over each district, ours is Ann Donnelly, and no longer have a
house of delegates. Loretta was able to
meet our new CEO for AHDI but unfortunately she found it necessary to leave;
therefore, Linda Brady is now our Acting Director with Wendy Carriegan,
COO. A search committee for the next CFO
has been formed.
We had planned a
great Symposium for this month of November, but were unable to have enough
participation to have it and therefore cancelled. It is truly difficult economic times for
everyone and no different for us professionals, medical language
specialists. We have planned to do Webinars
with the speakers that we had set up for the symposium so keep looking at this
website for more details. We will be
doing these in the new year of 2012.
We are proud of our
accomplishments in this crucial time. We are still going to remain here to
support all of our members with whatever help you need. We are hoping that in the future we will have
another symposium where we can network face-to-face but in the interim will
strive for goals of Webinars and working with our alliance partners in
promoting our profession. Any and all help that you, as members, wish to
participate in will be appreciated in this endeavor, just let us know.
In closing it has
been a pleasure to serve you as your president and I am very happy to give you
our new elected officers for 2012.
President: Loretta Foulkrod ( lfoulkrod0028@gmail.com
)
Vice President: DeLayce Hudak, CMT, AHDI-F ( CRAHDI@gmail.com
)
Secretary/Treasurer: Barb Henderson ( katiebkh@hotmail.com)
If you have questions,
suggestions, or just plain want to chat please feel free to contact us.
Remember we not only have the website but are now on Facebook for interaction
with you, our members. Students—we are
here for you too, and truly hope that you will enjoy this great profession that
you are training for.
Sincerely
Suzanne K. McKean,
President ( CRAHDI@gmail.com )