Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Issued by
Metacred
Earners of this designation cross-functional competence in the HIT & business environment in which they work and have the knowledge and skills to participate in the design, building & implementation of IT solutions for healthcare. He or she understands and articulates key clinical & business processes, support performance improvement efforts, and collects & compiles quality metrics and documents work streams to support technology solutions.
- Type Certification
- Level Foundational
- Time Years
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Analyst
- Application Development
- Applications Programmer
- Clinical Informatics
- Data Architecture
- Data Governance
- Data Privacy
- EMR/EHR
- Healthcare Analytics
- Healthcare Data Governance
- Healthcare Informatics
- Health Information Administration
- Health Information Documentation
- Health Information Management
- healthIT Security
- IT/Infrastructure
- IT Management
- Network Planning And Engineering
- Project Management
- Quality Assurance
Earning Criteria
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Have a working knowledge of both the IT environment and the healthcare environment to be eligible for the CAHIMS.
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Pass a comprehensive, standardized exam. The CAHIMS exam is a two-hour exam composed of 100 multiple-choice questions.
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Adhere to a Code of Conduct and recertify every three (3) years through at least 45 hours of continuing professional development, at least 2 hours of which must be in ethics or conflicts of interest topics.