GET CERTIFIED IN
DIGITAL HEALTH
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.
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Whether you are an organisation or an individual, you can now ensure independent validation of your team’s or your personal digital health and health informatics knowledge, helping you stand out from the crowd.
Note: this video refers to the initial competency framework not the update released in April 2022.
What is a certified health informatician?
CHIA demonstrates that you have the knowledge and core competencies required to perform safely and effectively as a health informatics and digital health professional in a broad range of practice settings.
Benchmark your knowledge
and competencies in today’s rapidly evolving digital health workplace
Add value
to your personal career development and your health workplace.
Lead by example
and become a change agent in the transformation of healthcare.
Not sure CHIA is for you?
Take the CHIA Challenge – a practice examination created for you to familiarise yourself with the format of the CHIA Examination.
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Be acknowledged for your health informatics achievements
Group certification
Fund certification for your staff and lift the digital health profile of your company’s workforce.
Become a CHIA
Illustrate your commitment to your professional development by getting certified in digital health. Explore and discover how to earn your CHIA credential.
Competency areas
Health sciences, information science, information technology, leadership and management, social and behavioural sciences, and core health informatics – the CHIA examination covers it all!
CHIA can certify your employees and lift the digital health profile of your workforce
Maintaining your CHIA certification
Maintaining currency of your health informatics knowledge and experience is as important as gaining it in the first place.​ CHIA credentialling is renewed every three years.
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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.
