American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) news and information

In Texas, “ICD-10” and “compliance deadline” are becoming fighting words.
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In 1979, the average cost of gasoline was 86 cents per gallon; the federal funds rate was as high as 13.78%; and people associated an apple with a piece of fruit.
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I've written before about the federally supported health information technology regional extension center program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help providers adopt and meaningfully use electronic health records systems.
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In an eight-page letter to HHS (PDF), the American Health Information Management Association called on HHS to stay the course and keep to the original schedule for the federally...
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Multiple healthcare organizations hustled ahead of Monday's deadline to file comments on the proposed Stage 2 meaningful-use rules for the federally funded electronic health-records incentive payment programs under Medicare and Medicaid.
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Initial reaction from healthcare industry leaders to HHS' proposed extension of the ICD-10 compliance deadline by one year to Oct. 1, 2014, has been cautiously positive.
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Countering the position of the American Medical Association, the American Health Information Management Association is urging its members to continue preparing for the October 2013 federally mandated conversion to the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision of diagnostic and...
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The American Health Information Management Association has rallied to the defense of the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline for the implementation of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, indicating its disappointment with an American Medical Association resolution this week to
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The rush to digitize patient information may produce unintended casualties if hospitals do not invest adequate time, effort and money in training their staffs to correctly use health IT.
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Modern Healthcare's Joseph Conn speaks with members of the American Health Information Management Association on why they attended the association's 83rd annual convention this week in Salt Lake City.
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