{"id":1998,"date":"2024-08-30T00:20:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T05:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aw-innovations.matrixdev.net\/cahiim\/?page_id=1998"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:44:43","slug":"health-informatics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aw-innovations.matrixdev.net\/cahiim\/accreditation\/health-informatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Informatics (CHEA-Recognized)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Health Informatics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Health informatics is an interdisciplinary, evolving science at the intersection of health and healthcare, information science and technology, and social\/behavioral science, using data, information, and knowledge to improve individual and population health and manage healthcare operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through intelligent data use, health informatics develops, deploys, analyzes, and manages a variety of applications (e.g., EHRs, clinical decision support, documentation, order entry systems, telehealth, health information exchange, mHealth apps) to improve healthcare outcomes and engage consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health informatics applies to patient care, public health and policy, education, and health sciences research.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Health Informatics Accreditation (CHEA-Recognized)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Health Informatics education occurs in academic programs awarding baccalaureate, masters, and professional doctoral degrees. The master\u2019s degree has a set of Accreditation Standards that ensure the quality of the education. Standards for the baccalaureate and professional doctorate are under development. Students entering these programs come from a variety of backgrounds, e.g., engineering, computer science, healthcare, and others. Education may also occur as a specialty within clinical degree programs, e.g., medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, dentistry, and others. CAHIIM considers informatics to be health informatics when used for healthcare delivery to be essentially the same regardless of the group involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clinical Informatics is concerned with information use in health care by clinicians. Clinical informatics includes a wide range of topics ranging from clinical decision support, visual images, clinical documentation, provider order entry systems, information system design, information system implementation, and information system adoption issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health Informatics professionals may practice in health care delivery, health information systems and imaging industry, health informatics education programs, and health informatics standards and policy development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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AMIA Scholarship<\/summary>\n
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AMIA Scholarship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Through its collaboration with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), CAHIIM is pleased to offer the opportunity for qualified master\u2019s programs in health informatics to apply for a scholarship that covers the costs associated with applying for CAHIIM accreditation. Funded by AMIA, the scholarship will  cover  the application fee, candidacy fee, and site visit fee. Before applying, programs should ensure they meet the professional curriculum content and quality standards outlined in the Health Informatics Accreditation Standards. If awarded a scholarship, the program must be prepared to begin the accreditation process upon notification and complete the process within the specified timeline. Please refer to the timeline on the website for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up to four<\/em> scholarships will be awarded in 2025 to qualified programs. More information about the accreditation process, including the accreditation timeline and the Health Informatics Accreditation Standards, can be found on this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here to Apply for the MHI Accreditation Scholarship<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Eligibility Information<\/h4>\n\n\n\n