Linda Kloss, the CEO of the American Health Information Management Association since 1995, has announced that she will retire March 31, 2010.
A longtime advocate for the U.S. healthcare system to switch to ICD-10 codes, Kloss said in a news release that she intends to continue her career-long commitment to improving health information and is looking to explore new ways to do so.
“We have seen huge progress at AHIMA and in the role of health information management in our industry,” Kloss said. “I am proud of what we have accomplished together.”
Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician readers voted Kloss the 57th-most powerful person in healthcare in 2007.
AHIMA's board announced that it has already initiated a national search for her successor.
The Chicago-based organization has 53,000 members and traces its origins back to 1928.
