Statement on Data Stewardship 
AHIMA Position Statement
11/2/08
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Statement on Health Information Management (HIM) as a Multi-National Profession
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
7/2/08
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Take Action to Educate and Expand the Health Information Management (HIM) Professional Workforce
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
7/2/08
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Statement on Consistency of Healthcare Diagnostic and Procedural Coding
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
12/2/07
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Health Information Management Professionals Are Uniquely Qualified as Privacy and Security Officials
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
12/1/07
Credentialed health information management professionals are uniquely qualified to assume designated privacy and security official positions as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule.
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Statement on the Confidentiality, Privacy, and Security of Health Records
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
12/1/07
AHIMA calls upon the healthcare and IT industries, and all other stakeholders, to ensure that uniform and consistent confidentiality, privacy, and security protections are established and technology adequately used to protect personal health information.
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US Must Adopt and Implement ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS: Immediate Action to Upgrade Medical Code Set Standards Needed
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
7/21/07
AHIMA calls for immediate action to upgrade medical code set standards
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Take Action to Educate and Expand the Health Information Management Workforce
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
6/2/07
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Value of Personal Health Records: A Joint Position Statement for Consumers of Health Care
AHIMA, AMIA
AHIMA Position Statement, AHIMA Journal (April 2007)
2/2/07
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) advocate empowering individuals to manage their healthcare through the use of a personal health record (PHR).
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Quality Healthcare Data and Information
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement, AHIMA Journal (January 2007)
10/7/06
AHIMA's position on data quality in the interconnected healthcare system of the future
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Statement on Health Information Confidentiality: A Joint Position Statement
AMIA, AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement, AHIMA Journal (Nov-Dec 2006)
7/31/06
AMIA and AHIMA outline principles that should be incorporated in all rules, regulations, or laws pertaining to personal health information as health records transition to an electronic environment.
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Value of Personal Health Records: A Joint Position Statement for Consumers of Health Care
AHIMA, AMIA
AHIMA Position Statement, AHIMA Journal
7/13/06
This position statement was replaced in February 2007. The revised position statement is available here.
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US Must Adopt ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement, AHIMA Journal
7/21/05
Please refer here for an updated version of AHIMA's position statement on ICD-10.
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Position Statement on Genetic Nondiscrimination
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement, AHIMA Journal
7/21/05
AHIMA calls for protections against genetic discrimination for all Americans in all circumstances, and urges Congress and the President to pass and sign legislation in 2005 to prohibit discrimination based on genetic information.
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Implementation of SNOMED-CT Needed to Facilitate Interoperable Exchange of Health Information
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement, AHIMA Journal
7/21/05
AHIMA calls for widespread adoption and implementation of SNOMED-CT as a standard clinical terminology in order to faciliate interoperable exchange of health information.
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Regulation of Health Information Processing in an Outsourcing Environment
AHIMA, et al.
AHIMA Position Statement
3/16/04
A Joint Position Statement issued with:
California Health Information Association (CHIA)
American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT)
Medical Transcription Industry Alliance (MTIA)
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Statement in Support of Prompt Adoption of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Medical Code Set Standards in the United States
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement, AHIMA Journal
7/10/03
AHIMA calls upon the Dept. of Health and Human Services and the healthcare industry to take quick and decisive action to expedite the adoption and implementation of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS code sets, rules, and guidelines as a replacement for ICD-9-CM.
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Statement on the Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security of Health Records
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
7/10/03
AHIMA calls upon the healthcare and information technology industries and the government to ensure that privacy, confidentiality, and security protections, and the use of technology to secure such protections, are afforded to all...
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Statement on Privacy and Confidentiality
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
9/20/02
This AHIMA position statement was replaced in July 2003 by the "Statement on the Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security of Health Records".
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Statement on the Health Information Management Workforce
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
7/18/02
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Statement on National Healthcare Information Infrastructure
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
5/18/02
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Statement on Consistency of Healthcare Diagnostic and Procedural Coding
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
5/18/02
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Privacy Officer
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
2/15/01
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Confidential Health Information and the Internet
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
1/2/98
This statement was replaced in part in July 2006 by the Statement on Health Information Confidentiality: A Joint Position Statement from AHIMA and AMIA.
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Quality Healthcare Data and Information
AHIMA
AHIMA Position Statement
12/2/96
This position statement was replaced in October 2006. The revised position statement is available here.
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