Jeddah, January 20, 2021, SPA -- King Abdulaziz University signed yesterday a cooperation agreement with American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). The agreement was virtually co-signed by the university's Vice President for Development, Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Talhi and the Chief Executive Officer for AHIMA, Dr. Wylecia Wiggs Harris. Dr. Al-Talhi affirmed that the agreement aims to develop academic curricula to be in line with the needs of the labor market and to raise the competence level of the health information technology department staff and students in the field of health information management and medical coding, which has become of a high degree of importance due to exceptional circumstances that the whole world is going through as a result of the novel Coronavirus pandemic. --SPA 14:35 LOCAL TIME 11:35 GMT 0009 www.spa.gov.sa/w1487906