The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) recently convened a Terminology and Classification Policy Task Force composed of medical and nursing informaticians, nosologists, and health information managers and educators, well known in the terminology and classification field. The Task Force has formulated a vision and associated goals and recommendations that it hopes will be used to frame a public-private dialogue about regarding the U.S. approach to healthcare terminologies and classifications against a backdrop of international approaches and achievements.

The Task Force Final Report is available HERE (pdf).

AMIA/AHIMA White Paper: Healthcare Technologies and Classification: Essential Keys to Interoperability.

Download the Powerpoint Slides (ppt).

Terminology and Classification Policy Task Force Members

Keith E. Campbell, MD, PhD
Chair, Terminologies and Classifications Policy Task Force
Chief Technology Officer, Informatics, Inc.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology
Oregon Health and Science University

Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc, FAAN
Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics
School of Nursing and Department of Medical Informatics
Columbia University

Sue Bowman, RHIA, CCS
Director of Coding Policy and Compliance
American Health Information Management Association

Christopher Chute, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Informatics
Mayo Foundation

Don Detmer, MD, MA
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Medical Informatics Association

Jennifer Hornung Garvin, PhD, RHIA, CPHQ, CCS, CRT, FAHIMA
Medical Informatics Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center

Kathy Giannangelo, MA, RHIA, CCS
Manager, Practice Leadership
American Health Information Management Association

Gail Graham, RHIA
Director, Health Data and Informatics
Department of Veterans Affairs

Stanley M. Huff, MD
Professor of Medical Informatics
University of Utah Senior Medical Informaticist
Intermountain Healthcare

Linda L. Kloss, MA, RHIA
Chief Executive Officer
American Health Information Management Association

Margaret Skurka, MS, RHIA, CCS
Professor and Director of Health Information Programs
Indiana University Northwest

Mary Stanfill, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P
Vice President, Practice Resources
American Health Information Management Association

Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, FAHIMA, RHIA
Associate Professor, Department of Health Information Management
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Pittsburgh