The AHIMA HI-Five Policy Podcast

Join AHIMA's Andrew Tomlinson, Senior Director of Regulatory and International Affairs, and Kate McFadyen, Senior Director of Government Affairs, for a look at what to expect with the midterm elections. Hear how potential outcomes could affect policymaking for the rest of the 119th Congress and next year. Listen or watch at the links below.

Don't forget to join us on Friday, November 13, at 1:00pm ET for a special post-election webinar where we recap what happened on Election Day and what that means for HI policy.

Questions about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

Join Andrew Tomlinson, Senior Director of Regulatory & International Affairs at AHIMA, as he chats with Katherine Lusk from the Texas Health Services Authority about the Data Usability Taking Root Movement and how HI professionals can get involved.Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO.

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Join Sarah Gericke, Program Specialist at AHIMA, as she chats with Priya Bathija, Founder and CEO at Nyoo Health on how to build trust with patients when collecting, using, and sharing social determinants of health data. The conversation highlights AHIMA’s framework on building patient trust to improve health outcomes. Learn more here: https://www.ahima.org/media/xl0gr014/d4bh-patient-trust-wp-final-4.pdf

Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org.

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Join Kate McFadyen, Senior Director of Government Affairs at AHIMA, as she discusses this year's National Health Data Week with Sam Roods, Director, Government Affairs & Policy at Datavant. The conversation expands on topics covered at this year's event, and why it's important to raise challenges and innovations within industry to policymakers and decision makers.Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

Join Andrew Tomlinson, AHIMA's Senior Director of Regulatory and International Affairs, as he chats with Deven McGraw, Chief Regulatory and Privacy Officer at Citizen Health. Learn what's on the horizon with privacy at the federal policy level, including about the forthcoming HIPAA Privacy final rule, and other key privacy battlegrounds in 2026.Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

Join Sue Bowman, AHIMA's Senior Director of Coding, Policy & Compliance, as she chats with the Co-Chairs of the Future of Disease Classification in the United States Symposium, Dr. Chris Chute and Dr. Patrick Romano, about the event, the learnings from the sessions, and how the symposium hopes to help shape the future of how disease is coded and captured.Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

Join Kate McFadyen, AHIMA's Senior Director of Government Affairs, as she chats with Congressman Bill Foster's (D-IL) Chief of Staff Samantha Warren. They chat about patient matching, the progress being made on the MATCH IT Act, and the importance of solving the patient ID crisis in healthcare. Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

Join the AHIMA Policy & Government Affairs Team as they take you on the ground live from the 2026 AHIMA Advocacy Summit in Washington, DC. You'll hear from both the expert speakers who participated in Advocacy Summit and even your fellow AHIMA member as this episode gives you a small slice of the two day event. Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

AHIMA Chief Public Policy and Impact Officer, Lauren Riplinger, sits down with AHIMA CEO Dave Cella to discuss the importance of advocacy and how AHIMA's work in Washington furthers the mission of AHIMA and strengthens the health information profession as a whole.

Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org.

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Join the AHIMA Policy & Government Affairs team as they look ahead at the key policy questions in 2026, identify some hot-topics in each of their areas of expertise, and give advice to HI professionals on where their attention should be focused throughout the year.Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

Join the AHIMA Policy & Government Affairs team as they recap the year in federal policy and give listeners a look at what may be coming in 2026.

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Join AHIMA as they chat with Mark Sendak of Duke's Health AI Partnership and Vega Health. Hear Mark's perspective on how AI is impacting healthcare, how to regulate it, and what sparked his interest in working with AI. Be sure to read Mark's article on eliminating the AI digital divide by building local capacity: https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0001026Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

Join the Policy & Government Affairs team as they take you on the ground in Minneapolis to capture the conversation at AHIMA25. You'll hear from AHIMA members, session speakers, and health IT experts as they discuss why AHIMA is an important part of the digital health policy landscape and the current happenings in Washington. Question's about today's episode?

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Join the Executive Director of WEDI, Rob Tennant, for a conversation on electronic prior authorization. Andrew and Rob touch on the history of current electronic prior authorization regulatory requirements, how those requirements are being implemented, and what the status of that implementation is.

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Join members of the Health IT End-Users Alliance as they chat about the importance of having the end-user at the table during technology, as well as policy, development and discuss the latest healthcare policy changes in Washington impacting end-users.Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI-7) joins AHIMA's Kate McFadyen for a conversation on Veterans' Affairs issues in Congress, where they stand today, and work Congress is doing to improve both the care veterans receive and the digital healthcare ecosystem enabling that care.Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

The Gravity Project's Director of Clinical Informatics, Sarah DeSilvey, joins AHIMA Senior Director of Coding Policy and Compliance, Sue Bowman, for a conversation on how to utilize health data to identify and address an individuals social needs.Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO.

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Banner Health IT Director of Person Identity Management, Megan Pruente, joins AHIMA Senior Director of Government Affairs, Kate McFadyen, for a conversation on patient matching in healthcare and the challenges, as well as possible solutions, to the problem. Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

AHIMA's Senior Director of Regulatory and International Affairs Andrew Tomlinson chats with Politico's Congressional Domestic Policy Reporter Ben Leonard on the changes at the US Department of Health and Human Service (HHS), how they are being perceived in Congress, and what's next for the reconciliation process. Question's about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org. Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

Join the AHIMA Advocacy & Policy team for its first episode of the HI-Five providing an update from Washington.

Moderated by AHIMA Chief Public Policy & Impact Officer Lauren Riplinger, the conversation covers what is happening in Congress, the Administration, and touches on topics most important to HI professionals. Guests include AHIMA Senior Director of Coding Policy & Compliance Sue Bowman, Senior Director of Government Affairs Kate McFadyen, and Senior Director of Regulatory and International Affairs Andrew Tomlinson.

Questions about today's episode? Email us at advocacy (at) AHIMA (dot) org.

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