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As part of the partnership, Tableau will also sponsor live and on-demandtraining courses customized for HIM faculty and students. The HIM on-demandtraining courses are available athttp://www.tableausoftware.com/ondemandws/ahima. In addition, Tableau will beexhibiting and participating in the 80th AHIMA Annual Convention and ExhibitOctober 13 to 15 in Seattle, WA.
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"With the amount of healthcare data used in day to day operations today,HIM students need more preparation than ever to analyze and understand thisdata. They need the skills and tools that will enable them to not only managethat data but to also learn from it," said Kevin Brown, vice president ofalliances and partnerships at Tableau Software. "Tableau is delighted to beproviding software to the e-HIM Virtual Lab and customized training optionsthat will help HIM students easily learn how to use visual analytics softwareto help solve those challenges."
Tableau Desktop (http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/desktop) connectsdirectly to a wide assortment of databases, integrating data exploration andvisualization to make analytics fast and easy for nearly anyone of anyexperience level. Also available are Tableau Server(http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/server), which provides Web-basedsharing and collaboration capabilities, and the company's free Tableau Reader(http://www.tableausoftware.com/products/reader), which enables anyone to useand benefit from visual analysis. Tableau's products have already attractedmore than 10,000 licensed users ranging from one-person businesses to theworld's largest organizations.
"Tableau will help us expose Virtual Lab students to best practices inreal-world data analytics, using their unique software tool," said SandraKersten, Virtual Lab Director, AHIMA. "HIM students need to be at theforefront of knowing how to rapidly analyze and understand rich data sourcesin order to gain deeper insight on the business conditions facing theirorganizations. With tools and training from Tableau, they can becomeproficient and capable in visual analytics quickly and easily."
About Tableau Software
Tableau Software, a privately held company based in Seattle, is theleading provider of software applications for fast analytics andvisualization. Its award-winning products can be downloaded athttp://www.tableausoftware.com/trial and used by anyone, including executives,managers, business analysts, strategic consultants, financial professionals,market researchers, scientists and engineers in nearly every industry. Formore information, visit http://www.tableausoftware.com.
About American Health Information Management Association
The American Health Information Management Association is America'sleading professional society whose mission is to "improve healthcare byadvancing best practices and standards for health information management and[serve as] the trusted source for education, research and professionalcredentialing." AHIMA represents more than 52,000 specially educated HIMprofessionals who serve healthcare and the public by managing, analyzing andutilizing data vital for health system management.
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