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The Healthcare Financial Management Association was founded as the American Association for Hospital Accountants by 16 organizing committee members following an organizing meeting held at Indiana University on June 17, 1945. Its early goals were to create more cooperation between hospital accountants and hospital organizations, and to provide ...
Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) [3] Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) Community Health Accreditation Program(CHAP) DNV GL Healthcare; Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) [4] Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) [5] Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP ...
EHNAC grew out of the 1993 Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) meeting, sponsored by the Network Architecture and Accreditation Technical Advisory Group. The healthcare transactions industry agreed there was a need for a self-governing body to develop standards for the industry, and the Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions (AFEHCT) championed the cause by sponsoring ...
The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) unveiled a "Patient-Friendly Billing" project to help healthcare providers create more informative and simpler bills for patients. [20] Additionally, as the Consumer-Driven Health movement gains momentum, payors and providers are exploring new ways to integrate patients into the billing ...
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) - based in the United States [51] American Accreditation Commission International (AACI) - based in the United States; Community Health Accreditation Program. [52] Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) [53] Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) [54]
The National Healthcareer Association (NHA) is a national professional certification agency for healthcare workers in the United States. [3] Granting credentials in more than 8 allied health specialties, it is an organizational member of the National Organization for Competency Assurance (NOCA). [ 4 ]
Registered health information administrator (RHIA), previously known as registered record administrator, is a professional certification administered by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in the United States. Passing the exam results in certification for health information management.
Traditionally focused mainly on hospitals and paper medical records, the field presently covers all health information technology systems, including electronic health records, clinical decision support systems, and so on, for all segments of health care. As of 2013, the association has more than 71,000 members in four membership classifications.