THIMA is a component association of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).
AHIMA is a global nonprofit association of health information (HI) professionals with more than 71,000 members and more than 100,000 credentials in the field. The AHIMA mission of empowering people to impact health drives our members and credentialed HI professionals to ensure that health information is accurate, complete, and available to patients and providers. Our leaders work at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and business and are found in data integrity and information privacy job functions worldwide.
Mission
Advancing the health information management (HIM) profession through development, education, member representation, and lifelong learning to ensure quality health information.
THIMA Delegates at the HOD during AHIMA Convention
Vision
Create, develop, improve and support quality information through embracing new technologies and utilization of resources.
Values
Respect
Privacy and confidentiality of health information
Excellence
Quality management of health information
Leadership
Governance of health information integrity
Innovation
Collaboration for quality health care delivery
Focus
Quality healthcare through quality information