Linda Taylor, M.S., Rhia, Cpco

LINDA TAYLOR, M.S., RHIA, CPCO

Assistant Professor of Health Information Technology

Indiana Tech

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Ms. Linda Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Health Information Technology at Indiana Tech, where she teaches Health Information Management, Medical Terminology, and Health Information Field Experience. She is currently developing courses for a new program called Emergency Response Management that will launch in 2015/2016. She has more than20 years as an emergency responder as a law enforcement officer with positions such as Police Sergeant, Police Officer, Firefighter, and Emergency Medical Technician. Ms. Taylor is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), a member of the American Health Information Management Association and its Indiana Affiliate IHIMA, and a Certified Professional Compliance Officer (CPCO) by the American Association of Professional Coders.

In 1986, Ms. Taylor became the first female Public Safety Officer for the City of Highland Park Michigan, where she worked as a Police Officer, Firefighter, and Emergency Medical Technician. She later transferred to the Detroit Police Department, where she worked in various positions such as patrol officer, community service officer, law enforcement information network officer, and emergency hospital officer before getting promoted. As a Sergeant, her duties included: Patrol Sergeant, Incident Commander, Training Sergeant, Technical Liaison Sergeant, Administrative Sergeant, Timekeeper, and Chief of Police’s Staff Sergeant. She also served as a board member on the Law Enforcement Information Network Subcommittee.
Ms. Taylor has won several awards throughout her career for outstanding achievements prior to retiring from the emergency response management field. After retirement, she helped to start her family-owned medical clinic and became a Registered Health Information Administrator and Certified Professional Compliance Officer in Arizona. Prior to joining Indiana Tech, she worked as a Senior Quality Analyst contractor on the National Benefits Team for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

Ms. Taylor is currently a doctoral student in Indiana Tech’s Global Leadership Ph.D. program. Her other academic credentials include anM.S. in Health Information Management with a graduate certificate in Health Information Exchange from the College of St.Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, and anM.S. in Business Management from Colorado Technical University with graduate certificates in Project Management, Change Management, and Business and IT Transformation.Her undergraduate degrees area B.S. in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix’s Southfield Michigan extension, and an A.A.S. in Computer and Data Processing from Wayne County Community College, in Detroit, Michigan.

Ms. Tayloris attending the conference to learn more about teaching Emergency Management and to gain any new information or data that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing for higher education programs because sheis developing courses for a new Emergency Management program at Indiana Tech; she will also be teaching many of these courses.

May 19, 2015