The AHIA Annual Conference Committee is in the planning stage for its 2016 Conference to be held September 11-14, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia.

If you are interested in being a presenter for the conference, we would like to hear from you.

All proposals should focus on internal audit or compliance subjects specific to healthcare. In the past, presentations have centered on such categories as:

• Audit Leadership/Skills
• Coding and Medical
• Hot Topics
• Information Technology
• Legal and Regulatory
• Revenue Cycle
• Topics for the New Auditor
• Electronic Health/Medical Records
• Specialty Areas

PLEASE NOTE: Co-presenters will be considered ONLY for sessions of 100 minutes.

For 2016, we will be offering the following tracks:

Auditor's Toolkit/New Auditor: Sessions in the auditor's toolkit/new auditor's track will provide guidance to the new auditor or auditor new to healthcare as well as supplement the "auditor's toolkit" with fundamental audits from a healthcare perspective.

Specialty/Clinical Quality: The sessions contained in the specialty/clinical quality track deal with topics that effect hospitals and healthcare organizations exclusively. Healthcare reform legislation has increased the amount of issues with which hospital executives are dealing including an increased focus on clinical quality. This track will help healthcare internal audit department professionals better understand those issues so they can help guide their organizations in these challenging times.

Compliance: The compliance track sessions will focus on increasing the healthcare auditor's understanding of compliance risk areas. Healthcare audit professionals will improve their skills in developing risk based compliance audit plans, evaluating key compliance risk areas, and identifying control improvements.

Information Technology/ Security: This track is designed to meet the needs of both the IT specialty auditors and the general auditors with responsibilities for IT audit service. The track covers IT hot topics in the healthcare industry by offering technical sessions providing information on IT specific risks and controls as well as sessions on broader IT topics that will meet the needs of all auditors.

Leadership: The leadership track will provide chief audit executives (CAE) and aspiring CAEs ideas on how to lead their organizations in the healthcare reform environment, enhance the governance and risk management process, integrate technology, develop talent and enhance the perceived value of the internal audit and compliance functions by leadership and the board of directors.

The Revenue Cycle / Health Plan track is expanded this year to include not only Revenue Cycle, but Health Plan-specific topics of interest that will benefit every internal audit professional's understanding of these critical business and process cycles.

If your presentation concept does not fit into the above categories or track descriptions, we still want to hear from you. We are always looking for new issues that we can offer to benefit our membership. We look forward to receiving your proposal.