Students
CAHIIM is committed to upholding quality standards that build public trust in health information, to benefit students seeking education in a variety of fields, such as Digital Health, Health Informatics, Health Information Management, Health Science, and more.
CAHIIM offers a Student Verification Program as a way to recognize proficiency and verify that a student has graduated from an accredited program.
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What does Accreditation Mean?
What You Should Know About Accreditation
Accreditation is a mechanism for assuring academic quality in higher education.
The institution that sponsors an accredited CAHIIM program, is required to have institutional accreditation by a regional or qualified institutional accreditor which must be recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and must have provisions for Title IV Eligibility. This allows that institution to provide:
Eligibility for Federal Financial Aid
- Ability to Transfer Credits: Accreditation provides for establishing the acceptability of credits from school to school.
- Ability to enroll in Graduate education: If your undergraduate degree was earned at an unaccredited institution you run the risk that the graduate school in which you would like to enroll will not accept your degree.
Protection against fraud and abuse for students.
Professional programmatic accreditation means that in addition to the college or university’s regional or national accreditation, programs in health information and health informatics may choose to seek CAHIIM accreditation, which is a voluntary peer review process to evaluate the program of study against CAHIIM Standards.
Please refer to the following video from the Association of Specialized and Professional Accreditors (ASPA) for information on accreditation.
Benefits of Programmatic Accreditation
Academic programmatic accreditation benefits students by:
Assuring that programs reflect changes in knowledge and practice.
- Encouraging confidence that the educational activities of an institution or program have been found to meet accreditation standards supported by the profession.
- Assisting with student mobility by indicating to institutions that transfer students or graduate school applicants have met the expected thresholds of educational quality.
- Signaling to prospective employers that a student’s educational program has met widely accepted professional standards; graduation from an accredited program is often a prerequisite for entering the profession.
- Providing access to available federal and state financial aid to qualified students attending accredited institutions.
- Protecting the efficacy of learning to make the educational investment worthwhile.
- Assuring that programs reflect changes in knowledge and practice.
Why Attend a Program Accredited by CAHIIM?
Why Attend a Program Accredited by CAHIIM?
CAHIIM accredited programs are quality programs that provide professionally required knowledge and skills, and employment marketability.
Graduating from a CAHIIM accredited program offers employers assurance that you have the expected professional knowledge and skills and have experienced a curriculum that is relevant to today’s electronic health record (EHR) environment.
Professional programmatic accreditation means that in addition to the college or university’s regional or national accreditation, programs in health information management and health informatics may choose to seek CAHIIM accreditation, which is a voluntary peer review process to evaluate the program of study against CAHIIM Standards.
CAHIIM Student Verification Program
The verification program serves as a way for CAHIIM to connect with new graduates early in their careers, and through those graduates, strengthen our connection to industry while providing a way for those graduates to help drive educational standards in their fields of practice.
Benefits of Verification
For a one-time, application fee, student verification offers the following benefits:
- Employers can quickly verify your graduation from an accredited program
- Attain recognition of established industry competence your degree field
- Find out about exclusive opportunities to strengthen your resume through continuing education offerings, as well as volunteer opportunities with the potential to help guide development of accreditation standards for your industry
Application Requirements
Application Fee: $20.00
Applicants must be graduates of CAHIIM-accredited programs, who attended the program while it was accredited or in candidacy status.
Applicants will need to upload any official supporting documents that verifies the degree granted.
Examples of supporting documents include the following:
- The completed student verification form. The blank form can be downloaded here and must be signed by the Program Director,
- Copy of your degree,
- Signed verification from your school’s registrar’s office.
If you have received academic honors or distinctions, such as Summa Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, Cum Laude, during your academic journey, please include the supporting document(s) verifying those honors or distinctions.
* Documents must be de-identified and any confidential data (such as social security number, student ID, etc must be removed prior to uploading the document).
CAHIIM Program Directory
To begin your search for a CAHIIM accredited program, use the link below to search by education level, institution name, state, or distance learning (online) delivery. If the program/institution is not listed, please contact the program directly regarding their status with CAHIIM.
