1. www.amia.org 6 th Annual Conference ~ Minneapolis Claire Dixon-Lee, PhD, RHIA, CPH, FAHIMA Executive Director Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) Chicago, Illinois Claire.dixon-lee@cahiim.org www.cahiim.org

2. www.amia.org 6 th Annual Conference ~ Minneapolis 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)

3. www.amia.org 6 th Annual Conference ~ Minneapolis Upward Trends Significant growth in proprietary, for-profit institutions 2 nd 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

4. www.amia.org 6 th Annual Conference ~ Minneapolis Distance Education Quality, pedagogy, creativity, graduate outcomes State authorization Resources: WCET weblink: http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/10-steps- to-begin-authorization/http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/10-steps- to-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/state- approval/FinalStateApprovalRegulationsforDistanceEducationAStart erListwithAddendum2.pdfhttp://wcet.wiche.edu/wcet/docs/state- approval/FinalStateApprovalRegulationsforDistanceEducationAStart erListwithAddendum2.pdf