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Barbara Kram, Editor | February 06, 2006
Kloss, MA, RHIA, AHIMA CEO. "These highly skilled 21st century healthcare workers are needed to ensure that we can convert the volumes of data such systems and networks will provide into useful knowledge applicable to improving quality, reducing medical injuries, increasing health research information and information to improve coverage and lower costs, and biosurveillance and public health monitoring for outbreaks such as pandemic flu."
In addition, AHIMA and AMIA are urging Congress to push forward on the two pieces of Health IT legislation-- S. 1418 and H.R. 4157--that address many of the issues contained in their recommendations to the President.
AHIMA and AMIA are national professional associations engaged in advocating for
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sound public policy that benefits patients, health care providers, and society at large. The groups advocate for policies that advance the scientific and applied bases of effective use of information technology to transform health care with greater safety, better outcomes, efficiency, and effectiveness.
For a copy of AHIMA's letter to President Bush, visit the association's Web site at: http://www.ahima.org/dc/StateoftheUnionResponse.asp
About AMIA
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is an organization of leaders shaping the future of health information technology in the United States and abroad. AMIA is dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
About AHIMA
AHIMA is the premier association of health information management (HIM)
professionals. AHIMA's 50,000 members are dedicated to the effective management of personal health information needed to deliver quality health care to the public. Founded in 1928 to improve the quality of medical records, AHIMA is committed to advancing the HIM profession in an increasingly electronic and global environment through leadership in advocacy, education, certification, and lifelong learning.
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