Certified Health Informatician Australasia - CHIA

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CERTIFIED HEALTH INFORMATICIAN AUSTRALASIA (CHIA)

A properly skilled health informatics workforce is the foundation of safe, effective healthcare. AIDH, Australasia’s peak body for digital health, aims to help build the world’s best credentialled digital health workforce. For a growing number of healthcare services and professionals, CHIA is the certification of choice.

What is CHIA?

CHIA (Certified Health Informatician Australasia) is a unique credentialing program in health informatics managed by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH).

CHIA formally recognises the knowledge and skills for those working in health informatics and digital health. CHIA demonstrates that you have broad expertise in health informatics principles, concepts, methods and the ability to apply these in the workplace.

Maintaining the certification, signifies that you have kept up to date the skills knowledge and abilities to perform safely and effectively in a broad range of practice settings.

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What are the benefits of completing CHIA?

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Testimonials

The Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health has been supporting people in the health sector to undertake CHIA and reflecting on the health system in South Australia, we can clearly see conversations changing. Investment in data governance, business intelligence solutions and use of data to support decisions is becoming more and more evident.

Tina Hardin
Executive Director of Clinical Informatics at CEIH

Metro North Health is supporting staff to become CHIA certified, enabling us to keep pace with digital change, and therefore benefitting the healthcare system, clinicians, and most importantly, our patients.

Kristy Jackman CHIA
Director, Queensland Digital Academy – Digital Metro North

The CHIA certification shows that I have the expertise needed to ensure that clinical information sharing, use of technologies in healthcare and digital health initiatives achieve the important aims we have. It’s an endorsement of my contribution to digital health.

Kate Renzenbrink CHIA
Chief Nursing and Midwifery Information Officer, Bendigo Health

CHIA has provided on-going professional backing to my work credentials, and at the same time connected me to a peer network of fellow professionals who I greatly respect.

Dr Paul Cooper FAIDH CHIA
Director, Longboardfella Consulting

CHIA Champion organisations

NSW Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network

CHIA is delivered to you by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH), a peak body for digital health representing a united and influential single voice for health informatics and digital health leaders and practitioners.

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