Testimony of Don E. Detmer, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Medical Informatics Association Before the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health. Hearing materials also available here.
Summary Position on Adoption of ICD-10 (pdf)- a joint statement with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
AMIA and AHIMA advocate empowering individuals to manage their healthcare through the use of a personal health record (PHR). The PHR is a tool for collecting, tracking and sharing important, up-to-date information about an individual’s health or the health of someone in their care. Using a PHR will help people […]
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have a long history of working to protect the confidentiality of individuals’ health information and to promote fair information practices. Public confidence that privacy will be protected and that identifiable information will be used only for […]