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The independent validation of your health informatics and digital health skills

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• Health informatics is now fundamental to the delivery
• f healthcare
• Need highly skilled, knowledgeable and experienced

people in order to successfully implement and maintain the wide range of digital health initiatives which are essential for delivering sustainable health reform in Australia

• CHIA provides the impetus to outline the required

digital health knowledge, skills and attributes to build health informatics capability

A workforce confidently using digital health technologies to deliver health and care. Australian Digital Health Agency Strategy, 2017

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Register

• Funded by your organisation
• Register online and meet the eligibility criteria:
• Undergraduate degree plus three (3) years of associated experience OR
• 5 years of associated experience (no degree required)

Induction

• HISA supported induction session at the beginning of the program
• Provides an overview of CHIA, expectations and the process to become certified

Welcome Email

• Distributed to candidates tomorrow
• Information on accessing the exam and study material
• 90 days begins

Readiness

• HISA supported readiness session two months into the program
• Aims to provide the opportunity to re-check with candidates sharing individual

experiences, discuss the exam in greater detail and answer any questions

Facilitated Organisation Program Overview

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• CHIA is the industry standard in skills and knowledge

recognition and certification of health informatics in Australasia

• Collaboration between HISA, ACHI and HIMAA
• Applicable across all levels of the health workforce
• Launched in December 2013
• Currently 395 CHIAs from 10 countries

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• Examination:
• 90 days
• Covering 6 competency areas and 52 competencies
• 104 multiple choice questions
• a mixture of theory-based and application of knowledge

to real-world scenarios

• Taking 2.5 hours
• Managed by an Examination Committee comprising

senior Australian health informaticians

• Based on the health informatics competencies

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Benefits to Individuals

Post-nominals Demonstration Differentiation Greater credibility and recognition Exclusive peer network Competitive job advantage Career paths Personal accomplishment

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“Being a CHIA has given me the confidence and pride to follow my passion to embrace and progress the informatics and digital health agenda in my professional career, knowing that I have a solid foundational knowledge in this space; and a network

• f likeminded CHIA professionals in the informatics

industry for support and to constantly learn from.”

Louise Hayes, EY

“Being a CHIA has given me the confidence to know that through my experience and training I can bring about positive change. The thoughtful use of data and underpinning technologies can improve health outcomes for Australians – including those I know and love.”

Fiona Stuart, KPMG

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Benefits to Organisations / Employers

Effectiveness Staff professional development Credibility, differentiation and commitment Guidance Professionalism Differentiation Making your life easier

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Benefits to the Health Profession

Advance the profession Clarity Consistency Demonstrability

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• Credential holds for a three year period, after which it is either

renewed or it lapses

• Maintaining the currency of health informatics knowledge, skills

and experience is as important as gaining it in the first place

• Recertification gives assurance that certified professionals have

undertaken maintenance activities to demonstrate sufficient and

• ngoing CHIA competence
• Recertification must be completed every three years by obtaining

60 CPD points during your three year recertification cycle

Maintain the CHIA credential

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Prepare

• Review the eligibility criteria:
• Undergraduate degree plus three (3) years of associated experience OR
• 5 years of associated experience (no degree required)
• Do a self-assessment and take the CHIA Challenge

Register

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• $495 for members (of ACHI/HISA or HIMAA)
• $695 for non-members

Study

• Familiarise yourself with the CHIA Competencies Framework
• Review the references listed in the Study Guide
• Consider purchasing A Practitioner’s Guide to Health Informatics in Australia
• Set aside 8 hours a week over an 8-week period
• Reach out to the CHIA Alumni for guidance or form a study group with your peers

Sit

• Don’t leave your sittings until the last week
• Take the first exam sitting at the 60-day mark and the second sitting (if necessary) before

the 90-day mark

• Achieve the pass rate of 65% or more

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Study

• Familiarise yourself with the CHIA Competencies Framework
• Review the references listed in the Study Guide
• Review A Practitioner’s Guide to Health Informatics in Australia
• Set aside 8 hours a week over an 8-week period
• Reach out to the CHIA Alumni for guidance or form a study group with

your peers

Sit

• Don’t leave your sittings until the last week
• Take the first exam sitting at the 60-day mark and the second sitting

(if necessary) before the 90-day mark

• Achieve the pass rate of 65% or more

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Study tips

• Candidates may need to study more in one competency

domain than another

• Use your 90 days effectively
• Get on top of it early
• Create a study plan
• Candidates must make their own judgement of their

level of readiness to sit the exam

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Study tip

The best advice we can give candidates is from the CHIA Alumni.

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