The American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management (AAHAM) is the premier professional organization in healthcare administrative management. AAHAM was founded in 1968 as the American Guild of Patient Account Management. Initially formed to serve the interests of hospital patient account managers, AAHAM has evolved into a national membership association that represents a broad-based constituency of healthcare professionals.

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) represents medical groups, including some of the nation’s largest, most prestigious integrated healthcare delivery systems. AMGA advocates for the multispecialty medical group model of healthcare delivery and for the patients served by medical groups through innovation and information sharing, benchmarking, leadership development, and continuous striving to improve patient care. The members of AMGA deliver health care to more than 50 million patients in 42 states, including 15 million capitated lives. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, AMGA is the strategic partner for medical groups providing a comprehensive package of benefits, including political advocacy, educational and networking programs and publications, benchmarking data services, and financial and operations assistance.Please visit www.amga.org for more information.

AMDIS, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, is the premier non profit physician membership organization dedicated to advance the field of applied medical informatics and improve the practice of medicine by the direct physician use of information technology. AMDIS is the home for the “connected” CMIO. Over 1200 AMDIS physician members and 100 non physician associate members participate in the many AMDIS sponsored programs throughout the year. For information visit www.amdis.org or email [email protected].

CARING is an organization advancing the delivery of quality healthcare through the integration of informatics in practice, education, administration, and research with a focus on nursing. For more information, please visit www.caringonline.org.

The CIO Executive Council, founded by CIO magazine, is the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior executive IT leaders. Through peer counsel and strategic outreach initiatives, the CIO Executive Council provides member CIOs a united voice on technology matters and enables them to act as trusted, unbiased resources to one another while strengthening their businesses and collectively advancing the CIO profession. Please visit www.cioexecutivecouncil.com for more information.

The eHealth Initiative -- eHI -- represents the many stakeholders whose mission is to improve the health care system through the use of interoperable information systems. With 176 members including providers, academic and research institutions, hospitals and other health care organizations, clinician groups, employers and purchasers, health plans, health care information technology organizations, and manufacturers, eHI has rapidly become the go-to expert for information on HIT adoption. Through our numerous programs, conferences, activities, and collaborations, we're working towards an interonnected health information infrastructure where consumers, health care providers, and those responsible for population health have ready access to timely, relevant, reliable and secure information and services. For more information on eHI, visit www.ehealthinitiative.org

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) plays a major global role in the application of information science and technology in the fields of healthcare and research in medical, health and bio informatics. The basic goals and objectives of the association are to: promote informatics in health care and research in health, bio and medical informatics; advance and nurture international cooperation; to stimulate research, development and routine application; and move informatics from theory into practice in a full range of health delivery settings, from physician's office to acute and long term care. IMIA is an association of over 40 Country Society members, 30 Academic and Corporate Institutional members, and 50 corresponding members representing developing nations throughout the world. For more information, visit www.imia.org.

The National Association for Public Health Information Technology (NAPHIT) is a non-profit organization that provides leaders in public health information technology with a venue to exchange ideas and experiences, discuss and shape current public health information policy, and learn about tools and technologies that help them better support public health. NAPHIT’s base membership is the Chief Information Officers and Directors of Information Technology from the State, Territories, County, and Local Public Health Departments. Members collaborate on and exchange ideas and best practices to improve quality and reduce costs of information systems and information technology that support health department functions and programs.

The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) is a nonprofit consortium of over 250 organizations dedicated to improving healthcare by accelerating the adoption of information technology. NCHICA members include: hospitals and clinics; medical and dental practices; professional societies and nonprofit associations; national, state and local health agencies; health plans; law firms; healthcare and IT consulting firms/vendors; health education and training providers; and pharmaceutical and research organizations. For more information, please visit www.nchica.org.

The National Governors Association (NGA) is the collective voice of the nation's governors and one of Washington, D.C.'s, most respected public policy organizations. NGA provides governors and their senior staff members with services that range from representing states on Capitol Hill and before the Administration on key federal issues to developing policy reports on innovative state programs and hosting networking seminars for state government executive branch officials. The NGA Center for Best Practices focuses on state innovations and best practices on issues that range from education and health to technology, welfare reform, and the environment. NGA also provides management and technical assistance to both new and incumbent governors. Please visit www.nga.org for more information.

The Telemedicine Research Center (TRC) is a non-profit public service research organization whose mission is to promote telemedicine research and to create, manage, and disseminate information about telemedicine related issues. The main project of the TRC is the Telemedicine Information Exchange, tie.telemed.org, the premier Internet resource for information about telemedicine and telehealth research, programs, legislation and news.