6 th annual conference ~ minneapolis
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6th 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
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6th 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)
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6th Annual Conference ~ Minneapolis
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-
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/
FinalStateApprovalRegulationsforDistanceEducationAStarterListwithAddendum2.pdf
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