Transcript Claire Dixon-Lee, PhD, RHIA, CPH, FAHIMA

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Claire Dixon-Lee, PhD, RHIA, CPH, FAHIMA
Executive Director
Commission on Accreditation for Health
Informatics and Information Management
Education (CAHIIM)
Chicago, Illinois
[email protected]
www.cahiim.org
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CAHIIM
• Accredits degree-granting programs at the
undergraduate and graduate levels:
– Health Information Management – associate, baccalaureate,
master’s degree
– Health Informatics – master’s degree
• Statistics
– 301 accredited programs
• Associate = 239
• Baccalaureate = 55
• Masters = 7
– 60 candidate programs (A=53; B=4; M=3)
– 22 applicant programs (A=16; B=3; M-3)
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Upward Trends
•Significant growth in
proprietary, for-profit institutions
•2nd career students
•Part-time enrollments
•Time to graduation
•Federal/State Gov’t. programs
•Marketing of health information
careers
•Credentials & certificates
Challenge: Design &
Maintain Quality
Programs
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Distance Education
Quality, pedagogy, creativity, graduate outcomes
State authorization Resources:
• WCET weblink: http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/10-stepsto-begin-authorization/
• State Higher Education Executive Officers weblink:
• http://www.sheeo.org/stateauth/stateauth-home.htm
• WCET Starter List from 2011 of states’ regulations:
• http://wcet.wiche.edu/wcet/docs/stateapproval/FinalStateApprovalRegulationsforDistanceEducationAStart
erListwithAddendum2.pdf
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