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Holistic Solutions promotes individual learning and self-awareness through incorporating the concept of holism.  Dr. Merida Johns brings energy and passion to her motivational presentations and publications, educational materials, & personal retreats focusing on developing the whole person.

 

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Johns quoted in U.S. News and World Report Online
U.S. News and World Report reporter Marty Nemko interviewed Dr. Johns for an article on "Ahead of the Curve Careers."  Read Dr. Johns' interview on Health Informatics Specialists careers at
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To read Dr. Johns' analysis of HIM educational requirements for eligibility for an RHIA credential click here.


 

Merida Johns speaking engagements

 

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

June 2010: 
College of St. Scholastica - Duluth MN

July 2010: 
Florida Health Information Management Association - Orlando
 


Professional Books


Creating, Coaching, and Managing High-powered Work Teams Creating, Coaching and Managing High-Powered Work Teams

Are your workplace teams suffering from poor organization, non-productive meetings, inadequate communication, team member conflict and mediocre or poor outcomes?  If these challenges are confounding your teams, then Creating, Coaching and Managing High-Powered Work Teams is a practical step-by-step guide for correcting these problems.  In this easy-to-use book, Dr. Johns shares her thirty-year experience and practical know-how in creating, coaching and managing successful work teams. 

Written in a matter-of-fact style, the guide offers key actions for success that are based on best practices and organizational theory.  Strategies are presented in a sensible, easy to understand format and illustrated with examples and templates.    Creating, Coaching and Managing High-Powered Work Teams will help your teams become high-powered and successful by showing team members how to take ownership and manage their teams.

Available from Lulu Press.

High-powered teams getting the most our of your student team

High-Powered Teams:  A Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Student Team

Cooperative and team learning experiences help students learn more and develop communication, reasoning, and critical thinking skills.  

Merida L. Johns, Ph.D., uses her twenty-year experience in using cooperative learning techniques for teaching business and information systems courses and creates a practical approach to help students get the most out of their student teams. 

Filled with examples, templates, and exercises, students and instructors will find this new guide easy to use in applying workable strategies for creating high-powered student teams.

Available from Lulu Press.

Instructor's Manual - High-Powered Teams:  A Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Student Team

Instructor's manual that accompanies High-Powered Teams: Getting the Most Out of Your Student Team. Instructor's manual includes background on cooperative learning, chapter-by-chapter lesson plans and suggestions for using the student text, teaching notes, and methods for evaluation.

Available from Lulu Press.

Health Information Management Technology

Health Information Management Technology:  An Applied Approach

Editor Merida L. Johns, PhD, RHIA, and her distinguished colleagues have updated and revised the health information management technology concepts from their first edition, the most widely used textbook in health information management technology programs in the country. Creating a blueprint for success in the health information technology (HIT) field, Health Information Management Technology: An Applied Approach models the current AHIMA curriculum for health information technology programs.

Available from AHIMA

Information Management for Health Professions

Information Management for Health Professions

Managers of health information will appreciate the real-world focus of Information Management for Health Care Professions, 2E. While covering all the foundational content, it focuses on the manager’s role in utilizing data as an asset and planning and setting procedures for its proper storage, maintenance, usage, and security. Updated chapters explore the latest legislation affecting health data as well as the utilization of data warehousing, web technologies and database management systems in health information practice.

Available from Thomson Delmar Learning
   

   

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