As a HIMSS collaborator, AAHAM had an opportunity to participate at the annual HIMSS conference held in Las Vegas 2/21-2/25/12.  It was HIMSS most highly attended conference with over 37,000 attendees.  The exhibit hall was packed with over 1000 exhibitors, AAHAM included.  Our booth was staffed by me and Lori Sickelbaugh.  During the conference we had the opportunity to share the AAHAM story with a number of participants.  We also took advantage of the great educational offerings.  Over the next several weeks I’ll share some of what we learned.

Our 2012 Legislative Day focuses on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In order to preserve the integrity of the U.S. credit system and to foster responsible and prompt communications between healthcare providers that extend credit and the consumer, it is imperative that Congress take immediate action to modernize the TCPA for the 21st Century.

In short, we feel the TCPA should recognize a consumer’s right to consent to receive phone calls that are made to their wireless phones, including use of an auto dialer or prerecorded message, by those with whom the consumer has an established relationship, if that number is provided by the consumer.

Based on CDC survey results:

Percentage of cell phone-only households is over 30% (increased from 7.3% in 2005)

On the opposite side, landline-only homes have declined to only 11.2% in the 1st half of 2011

One of every six American reports receiving all or almost all of their calls on cell phones even though they have a landline...