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Verisma is offering AAHIM members a FREE webinar! To access, please follow the link below and complete the registration.
Webinar Title:
There’s an App for That! Connecting People with their Health Information
In this webinar, participants will learn from the firsthand experience of New York-Presbyterian Hospital how the Verisma Request App is transforming their release of health information practices. This webinar will also highlight essential technical and functionality app requirements that HIM, CIO and Compliance managers should assess when considering use of mobile tools.
1 CEU Credit:
Organizational Management and Leadership
When you register to view the approved Verisma Webinar your Pledge to Protect Truth and Accuracy will be submitted. For every pledge received, Verisma will donate $1 to the AHIMA Foundation. Let’s help get them get closer to their $5,000 goal.
Dear AAHIM Members and Fellow Colleagues:
Over the last week, AAHIM leadership has discussed the coronavirus situation and how this could affect the makeup of our coding symposium and annual meeting. Because of the increased risk, along with following the guidelines from national and state officials, we have made the decision to postpone both meetings. However, we are still contractually obligated to both venues. The new dates for both meetings are:
State Meeting – August 12 – 14, 2020
Coding Symposium – September 25, 2020
If you have registered for either of these meetings, your registration will be carried over to the new date, unless otherwise noted. You will also still have an opportunity to register to attend these meetings.
We understand that education is very important to you. We are in the process of discussing ways to bring you virtual meetings that will offer CEs. More details of that will come soon.
The Board will continue to monitor the situation and keep you updated. Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns at karenprice@aahim.org.
We appreciate your understanding and hope that you and your family stay safe during this time of uncertainty.
2019-2020 AAHIM Board
Register Now for AHIMA’s Virtual Hill Day Webinar Join AHIMA’s Policy & Government Affairs team for our 2020 Virtual Hill Day webinar on March 19 at 12 p.m. CT.
Attendees will learn how they can advocate on behalf of the HIM profession, gain an understanding of the public policy issues AHIMA is focusing on before Congress, and learn how to contact their elected officials via phone, email, or social media with a comprehensive walkthrough of AHIMA’s Advocacy Action Center.
Click here to register for the free webinar now.
2020 Audit Summit has been cancelled.
Please plan to join us on April 8, to hear about Appropriate Use Criteria, OIG/DOJ updates along with other up-to-date topics.
Click here for Audit Summit agenda.
Click here for registration information and form.
AHIMA is looking for strategic, innovative, dedicated members to be considered for one of our five elected roles in 2021.
View the opportunities for the AHIMA President/Chair-elect, Board of Directors, CEE members, CCHIIM Commissioners, and Speaker-elect of the House of Delegates on the AHIMA website.
Select the Elected Positions tab from the top toolbar to review each description. The application for each position is posted on Engage’s Volunteer Center.
Questions? Feel free to contact profession.governance@ahima.org.
As the Senate leaves town for August district work period, I wanted to provide a quick update on where things are with the patient matching issue in Congress and to ask for your assistance. As you may recall in June the House adopted an amendment that would strike language in the FY20 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations bill that prohibits the US Department of Health and Human Services from using federal funds to promulgate or adopt a unique patient identifier.
Striking this language will provide the US Department of Health and Human Services the ability to evaluate a full range of patient matching solutions and enable it to work with the private sector to identify a solution that is cost-effective, scalable, secure and one that protects patient privacy. Now that a budget deal has materialized, when the Senate returns in September, we expect them to quickly take up the Senate FY20 Labor-HHS appropriations bill. We are trying to build grassroots support for the Senate to reject inclusion of this outdated language as the House did in June.
Along these lines, we’ve created a new engagement at AHIMA’s Advocacy Action Center and we have two favors to ask—
- Head to the Advocacy Action Center to contact your US Senator about this critical issue.
- Encourage others to take action as well.
Our goal between now and September is to garner as much grassroots support as possible to continue to move this issue forward.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks for your support of HIM!!
AAHIM Board