Convention & Exhibit

Sunday, June 10 - Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Santa Clara Convention Center & Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara, California

The CHIA Convention & Exhibit is California’s premier event for health information management professionals. Health care and the role and opportunities for health information management professionals are on the cusp of unprecedented change. This one-stop event will address today’s most important topics (ICD-10, EHR, CDI) and offers networking opportunities to a broad spectrum of health information management professionals.

There will be 32 educational sessions from which to choose. General Sessions and concurrent educational learning tracks (breakout sessions) will allow you to tailor the convention to your own professional educational needs. Five pre-convention Tutorials are planned for Sunday, June 10, 2012. Visit the exhibit hall and learn about all the newest as well as the diverse array of HIM products and services. Invest in your career and professional community through education and networking.

Make an appointment with a vendor for a one-on-one demonstration during non-exhibit hours. Earn one CEU each day by visiting the exhibits.

Registration for the 2012 CHIA Convention & Exhibit opens March 5, 2012!

Hotel reservations for the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara can be made now!

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Interested in Exhibiting?

Booths are available now! Visit the Exhibit Opportunities page for details. As the most extensive HIM and HIT expo in the West, the CHIA Convention and Exhibit attracts more than 500 decision makers and influencers. These are people looking for solutions in areas such as the electronic health record, clinical vocabularies and mapping, coding, revenue cycle management, workflow, interoperability, transcription, and much more. These decision makers are looking for the solutions you can provide.

Continuing Education Units

This program has been approved for continuing education units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of AHIMA’s Commission on Certification for Health Informatics and Information Management (CCHIIM). The coding portion of this program has the prior approval of the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) for continuing education hours. Event No. CONV12. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number 05474 for contact hours.

The ICD-10 coding related sessions of this program meets the AHIMA/CCHIIM CEU requirement that all AHIMA certified professionals obtain education hours with the ICD-10-CM/PCS coding system. Check out the complete details on this new AHIMA/CCHIIM CEU requirement, including the number of CEUs required for each AHIMA credential.

Certificates of attendance listing the HIM Domain and respective hours for each session will be provided.

Target Audience

All CHIA members and Health Information Management professionals; Health Information Managers, Directors and Supervisors, Clinical Coders, Health Information Management Consultants, Information Security Managers, Chief Information Officers, Information Systems Managers, Compliance Officers, Quality Managers, Risk Managers, Business Office personnel, HIM Educators, HIPAA Compliance Officers, Privacy Officers, and students in HIA, HIT and coding programs, and all health care providers.

Watch this Web page for added details as they become available.