The AHIMA HI-Five Policy Podcast

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.

Track Name: SarruTonin.

Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

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.

Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

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.

Music courtesy of IMUNO. Track Name: SarruTonin. Artist Name: Heston Mimms, IMUNO.

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.

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.