AHIMA July 13, 2021
Ty Greenhalgh, HCISPP

In 2020, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the American Medical Association (AMA), the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) voiced strong support for HR 7898 in the 116th Congress. This bill amended the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which requires the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to incentivize cybersecurity best practices intended to meet HIPAA requirements. The bill was signed into law January 5, 2021, and is now referred to as Public Law No. 116-321.

These organizations, representing the nation’s clinicians, hospitals, health systems, and foremost experts in health informatics and health information management, voiced their collective opinion in the letter, saying:...

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