Websites
Websites with information for American Hospital Association members and the health care field.
This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the care they receive. Through a partnership with various groups, RWJF provides videos, surveys and reports about choosing the right doctors, the role of HIT and how to evaluate quality of care.
This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural and linguistic competency in health care. You may access free and accredited continuing education programs as well as tools to help you and your organization provide respectful,…
Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and preventable adverse event that should never happen. Although reporting is not mandatory in most states, some estimates put the national incidence rate, which includes wrong patient, wrong procedure, wrong site…
ICD-10 implementation timeline chart
This website provides descriptive material and links to AHA and external resources to help you make sense of the federal requirements as you continue on the path of EHR adoption and optimization.
The One-Year Extension for Complying with HIPAA's Standards for Electronic Transactions: How Does it Affect You?
Keeping Our Medical Privacy Promises: Fact Sheet on the Practical Effects of the Original Rule -- and How Proposed Modifications Will Make It More Effective for Patients and Providers.
AHA Response to the Dececember 2018 HIPAA RFI (December 12, 2019)
AHA/AHIMA Webinar: Engaging Patients Through Access to Their Medical Records (November 15, 2016)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) authorized incentive payments to eligible hospitals and physicians that are "meaningful users" of electronic health records (EHRs). As a result of the incentives and other funding opportunities, policymakers hope that the majority of…