AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association) executives expand their role in electronic record issues. Interview by Carolyn Dunbar.

Four of the top leaders in the American Health Information Management Association met with Computers in Healthcare, detailing their coalition-building efforts to make the computer-based patient record a reality. They reinforce their belief in the eventual reality of the CPR and its security, and call for sanctions and penalties for those who misappropriate or misuse patient records.