Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA)
Filling in as a basic connection between mind suppliers, payers,
and patients, the RHIA:
- Is a specialist in overseeing quiet wellbeing data and
therapeutic records, regulating PC data frameworks, gathering and
examining tolerant information, and utilizing characterization
frameworks and medicinal wordings?
- Possesses exhaustive learning of medicinal, regulatory, moral
and legitimate prerequisites and gauges identified with social
insurance conveyance and the security of ensured persistent
data.
- Manages individuals and operational units, partakes in
managerial boards, and gets ready spending plans.
- Interacts with all levels of an association - clinical,
budgetary, managerial, and data frameworks - that utilize
persistent information in basic leadership and regular
operations.
Openings for work for RHIAs exist in various settings all
through the human services industry. These incorporate the
continuum of care conveyance associations, including doctor's
facilities, multispecialty centers and doctor rehearses, long haul
mind, emotional well-being, and other wandering consideration
settings. The calling has seen noteworthy extension in non
understanding consideration settings, with professions in oversaw
care and insurance agencies, programming sellers, counseling
administrations, government offices, training, and pharmaceutical
organizations.
Qualification
Qualification Requirements
RHIA candidates must meet one of the accompanying qualification
prerequisites:
- Successfully entire the scholarly prerequisites, at the
baccalaureate level, of a Health Information Management (HIM)
program authorize by the Commission on Accreditation for Health
Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM).; OR
- Successfully entire the scholarly prerequisites, at the ace's
level, of a HIM program authorize by the CAHIIM; OR
- Successfully entire the scholastic necessities of a HIM
Certificate of the Degree (Post-Baccalaureate) program affirmed by
the CAHIIM; OR
- Graduate from a HIM program endorsed by a remote relationship
with which AHIMA has a correspondence assention; OR
- An RHIT who meets the Proviso conditions endorsed by the 2017
Commission on Certification for Health Informatics and Information
Management (CCHIIM).
It would be ideal if you Note: Each qualification write has
changing prerequisites of documentation that should be submitted
amid the application procedure. Snap here for subtle elements on
what supporting documentation you should give to AHIMA. The
scholastic capabilities of every competitor will be checked before
an applicant is esteemed qualified to take the examination.
CAHIIM Accredited Programs
All as of now CAHIIM certify projects can be found on the CAHIIM
site under the Program Directory tab.
To discover the rundown of at present endorsed Certificate of
the Degree4 programs, mark off the "Wellbeing Information
Management-Baccalaureate Degree (Certificate of the Degree
Definition)" box.
To discover the rundown of right now affirmed Masters programs,
scratch off the "Wellbeing Information Management: Masters Degree"
box.
Early Testing
Understudies in CAHIIM-licensed projects for RHIT® or RHIA®,
enlisted in their last term of study, are qualified to apply for
and take their particular confirmation exam early. Qualified
understudies incorporate the accompanying:
- Students right now enlisted and in their last term of
study
- Students who have finished their course work yet have not yet
graduated
- Graduates who are at present sitting tight for their official
transcripts
To apply as an early analyzer, buy the exam through the AHIMA
web store. While finishing the online exam application, select the
early testing choices and transfer the finished application for
early testing. If you don't mind make sure to just present your
exam application with the finished application for early testing
generally your application won't be affirmed.
Competitors who apply for early testing and effectively pass
their exam will have their accreditation conceded once official
transcripts (must incorporate graduation date) are gotten and
confirmed and will be liable to the recertification necessities as
required by CCHIIM. The exam date will be utilized as the official
date the accreditation is allowed.
Application Process
CCHIIM has endorsed a graduate degree qualification pathway for
CAHIIM certify HIM ace's level projects using the 2014 educational
programs and the base center abilities which have been laid out by
AHIMA.
Existing expert's projects that at present offer a qualification
or scaffold style program that prompts RHIA exam qualification will
likewise be recorded on this site until the point that 2017 when
all projects are required to have completely actualized the 2014
educational modules abilities. Snap here to see a rundown of
presently affirmed ace's projects.
- Students intrigued by acquiring a Post-Baccalaureate
Certificate, Certificate of Completion, or Transfer of Credits data
must contact the CAHIIM-certify program in which they wish to
select with respect to their institutional approaches. It would be
ideal if you visit the program registry Web website at
www.cahiim.org/catalog to get to the rundown of CAHIIM-licensed
projects.
- AHIMA and the Canadian Health Information Management
Association (CHIMA); Korean Medical Record Association (KMRA); and
Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA)
should allow an alum of a program in HIM at the baccalaureate
degree level to apply to compose the fitting affirmation
examination reliable with the scholastic level accomplished and
given autonomously by the previously mentioned affiliations. The
graduate must meet the instructive skills for affirmation as a
professional or executive set up by the relationship to which the
application is made.
- Registered Health Information Technicians (RHIT) who meet the
accompanying qualification necessities will be qualified to sit for
the RHIA examination amid the time period of July 1, 2017 through
2021:
- Have no less than a baccalaureate degree from a provincially
authorize establishment or broadly perceived accreditor; and
- Have got their RHIT qualification at the very latest August 31,
2018; and
- Have agreed to the Standards for Maintenance of the RHIT
certification.
- Candidates with a four year certification from a locally
licensed school or college AND have earned an authentication of the
degree from a Commission of the Accreditation of Health Informatics
and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) authorize HIM program
are qualified to sit for the RHIA exam. Alumni of projects that
have shut or are never again licensed, however were at the time the
individual graduated and got their testament of the degree, are
likewise qualified to sit the RHIA exam.