AHIMA Advocacy and Policy Resources & Links

• Advocacy Brochure: Advocacy 101
• Advocacy Brochure: Best Practices for CSA Advocacy
• Advocacy Brochure: Planning a State Hill Day
• StateNet
• Advocacy Assistant
• AHIMA's Guidebook for Effective Interaction with Federal and State Goverments (PDF ; MS Word )
• AHIMA Position Statements
• AHIMA Practice Briefs
• ARRA Acronym List
• ICD-10-CM/PCS

External Resources & Links

Federal Departments and Agencies

• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS)

• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

• National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)

• Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

• Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)

  • Standards Committee
  • Policy Committee
• Federal Trade Commission
• Government Accountability Office

Federal Information Resources

• Federal Register (regulatory activities)

• Thomas (legislative information)

• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

• Regulations.gov

• AHRQ National Resource Center

• AHRQ Quality Reporting Resources

• PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

State Government Associations

• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
• National Governors Association (NGA)

Industry and Professional Organizations

• American Bar Association Health Law Section

• American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)

• American Medical Association (AMA)

• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

• ARMA International

• Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI)

• Connecting for Health

• eHealth Initiative (eHI)

• Georgetown Center on Medical Record Rights and Privacy

• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

• Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)

• Markle Foundation

• Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)

• Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA)

• National eHealth Collaborative

• Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC)

Standards Work

• Search Engine for Standards
• ASTM International E-31 Technical Committee
• American National Standards Institute
• Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)
• Health Level Seven International (HL-7)
• International Health Terminologies Standards Development (IHTSDO)
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• National Quality Forum (NQF)
• The Joint Commission (TJC)