Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Issued by
HIMSS
Earners of this designation demonstrate leadership and management skills necessary to bridge gap between information technology and the healthcare environment. One can leverage cross-functional competence to identify opportunities for resource efficiencies, drive performance improvement and implement associated technology solutions. Further, he or she understands and articulates key clinical and business processes to identify business needs and uses quality metrics and clinical informatics.
- Type Certification
- Level Foundational
- Time Years
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Analyst
- Application Development
- Applications Programmer
- Clinical Informatics
- Clinical Systems Support
- Data Architecture
- Data Governance
- Data Privacy
- EMR/EHR
- Healthcare Analytics
- Healthcare Data Governance
- Healthcare Informatics
- Health Information Administration
- Health Information Management
- healthIT Security
- Health IT Systems
- IT/Infrastructure
- IT Management
- Leadership For Health IT
- Network Planning And Engineering
- Project Management
- Quality Assurance
- Systems Analysis
Earning Criteria
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Document IT management experience in a healthcare setting: healthcare information and management systems analysis, design, selection, implementation, support, and maintenance; testing and evaluation; privacy and security; and/or information systems; and/or clinical informatics; and/or management engineering.
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Pass a comprehensive, standardized exam. The CPHIMS exam is a two-hour exam composed of 115 multiple-choice questions, 100 of which are scored.
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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.