Dorine Lee Bennett, MBA, RHIA, RHIT, FAHIMA
CREDENTIALS, EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Earned Registered Record
Administrator (RRA) status through the
American Medical Record
Association examination in
October, 1989. (RRA
changed to RHIA in 2000)
Earned Accredited Record
Technician (ART) status through the
American Medical Record
Association examination in
September, 1978. (ART changed to RHIT in 2000)
Currently enrolled in
Doctor of Education in Educational Administration of Adult and Higher Education
program, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.
Master of Business
Administration with Management of Information Systems degree from
August 1995
Additional
graduate coursework in areas of computer science and computer education 1996
and 2003.
Additional
undergraduate coursework in areas of economics, management, marketing, and
financial management, 1989 to 1991.
July, 1989.
Dakota
State College,
Records Technology,
graduated Summa Cum Laude honors,
May, 1978.
percent of class, May, 1976.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Contractural
practice as a consultant for a number of facilities, including long term care
facilities and acute care and special hospitals. (1978 to 2000)
Contractural practice as a workshop/inservice/seminar presenter on computer applications and
health information management topics, including ICD-9-CM and CPT-4 coding,
confidentiality, documentation, legal aspects of health records, ethics and medical
terminology. (1989 to present)
Manager. (1987)
As part of my college
training I completed directed practice at the medical record/health information
management departments of the following facilities for four weeks at each:
University of
Jenkins Methodist Nursing
Home,
ACTIVITIES AND HONORS
Member of the Commission
on Accreditation of Health Informatics and Information Management Education
(CAHIIM) – 2005-2007; Member of the Council of Accreditation of the American
Health Information Management Association – 2004; Accreditation site reviewer
1997-2004, 2007-present
Named a Fellow of the
American Health Information Management Association, 2004
Certification – TekXam Technology Proficiency Examination, Spring 2000.
Named to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 2000 (by student
nomination)
Nominated
for SD Humanities Council 1999.
Awarded
SDHIMA's Educator Award for teaching. 1998.
Awarded
SDHIMA’s Legacy Award for literary contributions. 1997.
Named
to Who’s Who of American Women,
1995-1996.
Awarded
Outstanding Young Woman of
Participant in 1981-1982
Business and Professional
Women's Club,
Member of the American Health Information
Management Association (formerly the American Medical Record Association), the
AHIMA Coding Society, the AHIMA Assembly on Education, the AHIMA Long Term Care
Section, the South Dakota Health Information Management Association, and the
Southeastern Regional Health Information Management Club.
AHIMA/CAHIIM Accreditation
Site Evaluator 1997-present. AHIMA Assembly on Education Director 2000-2002. AHIMA Professional Practice Committee
1999-2000. AHIMA
Committee on Professional Development 2000. AHIMA Education Strategy
Committee 2002. AHIMA Nominating Committee 2004-2005. AHIMA Fellowship Review Committee
2007-2009. SDHIMA President
1997-1998. SDHIMA Director of Education
1996-1998. SDHIMA Bylaws Committee 1994-1996.
Chairperson of SDHIMA Marketing and Recruitment Committee
2000-2001. Chairperson of SDHIMA
Arrangements Committee, Spring 1993 meeting.
Chairperson of SDHIMA Education Funding Committee 1991-1992.
Chairperson of SDHIMA Recruitment Committee, 1990-1991. Coordinator of SDHIMA Each
One Reach One Program 2000-2006.
Editor of SDHIMA Newsletter 1996-2006.
Co-chair of SDHIMA Website Committee 2006-2007. SD nominee to AHIMA
Nominating Committee 1999.
Member
of
Vice-President 1989-1990.
Member
of American Association of University Women.
Secretary 1990-1994.
Member
of Delta Kappa Gamma (International Honor Society for Women Educators). Secretary 1994-1996. Chairperson Nominating Committee 1997-1998.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Presenter – Developing
Classes for Distance Learning, Assembly on Education Summer Symposium, June
2005
Contributor – Article in Journal of the American Health Information Management Association, Going
the Distance: Balancing Work and Education in a Distance Learning Program, June
2005
Participant – Focus
Group on HIA Textbook: Health Information Management: Concepts, Principles
and Practice, 2002.
Designing
the HIM Curriculum, AOE Teacher Preparation Workshop, 2001.
Presentation
at Stop Surfing Start Teaching 2000 Conference, February 2000.
Facilitator of Focused Group Roundtable
Discussions, AHIMA Assembly on Education Summer Symposium, June 1999.
Author of article, “Going on the Web and the
People Involved”, Advance for Health Information Professionals, May
1999.
Presentations at the
American Health Information Management Association's Assembly on Education
Summer Symposium, June 1998 and June 1997.
Participant: Focus Group on HIA Student Recruitment; AOE
Symposium, 1998.
Developing Professional
Practice Sites – Assembly on Education Advanced Educators Workshop, 1998.
Critique Your Web-Based
Syllabi – Assembly on Education Summer Symposium, 1998.
Information
Technology Model Curriculum Cluster Development – Assembly on Education Summer
Symposium, 1998.
Caucus Facilitator,
AHIMA House of Delegates, 1997
Integrating
Technology into the Health Information Management Curriculum -- Chapter in book
Technology and Teaching, 1997.
Computers and Technology
in the Health Information Management Programs at
Report on the Status of
Automation of Medical Record Functions in South Dakota Hospitals -- Winter 1992 SDHIMA Newsletter.
Health Information
Management -- Long Term Care Facilities, SDHIMA Focus Notes, June 1992.
Summary: Durable Power
of Attorney, December 1991 SDMRA Newsletter.
Coding for Long Term
Care Facilities, May 1991 SDMRA Newsletter.