AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professional™ (ACHIP™)
AMIA established the AMIA Health Informatics Certification (AHIC) program to certify health informaticians who are mid-level to advanced level in their career. The AHIC program is multidisciplinary and available to health informatics professionals that come from a range of educational and training pathways. An individual who applies for AHIC and passes the exam is certified as an AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professional™ (ACHIP™). AMIA also refers to these individuals as diplomates.
- Type Certification
- Level Advanced
- Time Years
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Clinical Decision Support
- Clinical Informatics
- Data Architecture
- Data Governance
- Data Integration
- Data Management
- Decision Science
- EMR/EHR
- Ethics And Professionalism
- Healthcare Quality
- Health Informatics
- Health Information Exchange (HIE)
- Health Information Management
- Health Information Systems (HIS)
- Health Information Technology
- Health IT Systems
- Interoperability
- Leadership For Health IT
- Quality Improvement
- Vendor Management
Earning Criteria
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There are two dimensions of AHIC™ eligibility – a graduate degree in health informatics or a related field and “qualifying” health informatics experience. The amount of required experience is determined by type of graduate degree. “Qualifying” experience includes work that aligns with the AHIC Outline of Exam Topics.
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The AHIC exam is a multiple-choice exam consisting of 150 items, each of which consists of a stem (question) and three answer options. All 150 exam items are scored. Candidates have 4 hours to complete the exam.
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ACHIPs must adhere to the AMIA Code of Conduct and recertify every four (4) years by submitting at least 60 hours of continuing professional development units. Recertification may also be achieved by retesting.