Please save the date and plan to join us for the AAHIM Coding Symposium
Friday, March 20, 2020
Vestavia Country Club
Registration will be opening soon!!
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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.
The Alabama Association of Health Information (AAHIM) Nominating Committee wants you to suggest fellow members and/or yourself as possible candidates for the AAHIM Executive Board (BoD) positions for the next fiscal year, July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021.
Board Position: President
Flower: Camellia (Exquisite and Highly Valued)
Description: The President shall preside at all meetings of the members, the BoD, and the Executive Committee., determine the regular agenda of all meetings of the members of the BoD and the Executive Committee, present a report at the annual meeting, appoint the chairs of committees (unless otherwise specified herein) authorized by the BoD, and must be an active member of AHIMA and AAHIM and hold a current RHIA or RHIT credential.
Cost: Priceless
Board Position: President-Elect
Flower: Lily (Purity, Passionate, Sweetness)
Description: Shall act in place of the President in the event of the absence of the President and shall exercise such other duties as may be delegated to the office by the BoD. The President-Elect must be an active member of AHIMA and AAHIM and hold a current RHIA or RHIT credential.
Cost:
4-5 days per month for one year.
3-year commitment
Board Position: First Year Director
Flower: Rose (Beauty, Love, Sweet Aroma)
Description: Serves a two year position, serves as Chairman of a Standing Committee of AAHIM or a Committee appointed by the AAHIM BoD, attends Board meetings regularly.
Cost:
2 days per month for two years
2-year commitment
To see full position descriptions and to place your “order”, please click here.
Place your order early/ Nominations will close January 29, 2020.
If you need more than a few CEUs to complete your cycle for the year we have two bundle deals for you from our 2019 Quad-State event. Please check out these two deals at:
Bundle #1 Deal – 12 Coding Webinars – $115 (11 CEUs)
Bundle #2 Deal – 12 Management Webinars – $125 (12 CEUs)
If you only need a few CEUs, shop around for individual sessions at:
Please join GHIMA and AAHIM members for an outstanding leadership symposium presented by Flowers Consulting on February 28, 2020 in Columbus, Georgia.
Please follow the link below to view the complete agenda, make hotel reservations and to learn about early registration savings through January 31, 2020.
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