Health systems and hospitals are faced with the challenge of maintaining and improving the knowledge and skills of an engaged healthcare workforce. Competition for skilled staff makes offering access to high-quality professional development and training even more important.
Professional development and training is the one tool employers have that continuously improves the workplace through relevant education and career growth opportunities for individual employees. With so many varied options for employee engagement, upskilling, and professional development, it is critical to select educational content from trusted, credible sources. But, when it comes to the specific need for health informatics education for care teams, the options are few and expertise matters. AMIA provides this expertise through its high-quality, educational opportunities.
AMIA’s Health System Membership is designed to help organizations support the health informatics education and training needs of staff in health systems and hospital settings. Through the membership, individual health system and hospital employees are granted credits they can use to take advantage of AMIA’s many digital, learning-on-demand programs.
Learning Tools for Busy Professionals on the Go
Adult learners juggle the demands of their families, their jobs, their education, and more. Online learning from AMIA makes continuing education easy to access and complete. Learners are able to use their time wisely, make measurable progress, test their knowledge, and obtain health informatics training.
AMIA’s many online educational programs — the new Health Informatics Essentials courses, the 10x10 Virtual Courses, the AMIA Health Informatics Certification Review Course (ARC) for health informatics certification, and the Clinical Informatics Board Review Course (CIBRC) for the clinical informatics subspecialty certification — are all available through the Health System Membership.
Online, On-Demand Courses — Health Informatics Essentials
AMIA is offering a new online education series called Health Informatics Essentials, designed to promote the profession of health informatics and its power to transform health care. This series, offering more than 40 hours of on-demand education, is comprised of five CME/CNE-certified courses, each of which offers topical modules with multiple video lectures. The courses are designed for professionals who are involved in direct or indirect care of patients and who desire to learn more about the practice of health informatics coming from a range of educational and training pathways, including but not limited to nursing, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, public health, health informatics, and computer science.
Who is Eligible for the Health System Membership?
The Health System Membership is available to organizations that deliver or pay for healthcare or public-health services. Health systems include integrated delivery networks, hospitals, clinics, provider groups, home health agencies, insurance companies, state/county/city departments of health, government agencies, and healthcare quality-and-safety-promotion organizations. A membership may be held at the corporate, regional, or local level.
Health System Membership Benefits
Health System Membership Levels
The four levels of the Health System Membership offer a simplified way for health systems to select the benefits that best meet their needs and to engage their leadership and educate their employees. All Health System Membership levels may be customized to include additional benefits.
Mix and Match Online Education to Meet Individual Needs
Educational credit allotments purchased within any Health System Membership level can be used to mix and match educational offerings based on the health system or hospital’s needs.
Digital Education Options | Education Credit Values |
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AMIA 10x10 Virtual Courses | 10 |
CIBRC Online Plus | 8 |
CIBRC Bundle | 14 |
AHIC Review Course (ARC) | 5 |
Health Informatics Essentials | 1 |
Example #1
Level 1: 25 Educational Credits can be redeemed for:
- Seven (7) Health Informatics Essentials Courses (7 credits)
- One (1) AMIA 10 X 10 Virtual Course (10 credits)
- One (1) CIBRC Online Plus course (8 credits)
Example #2
Level 3: 75 Educational Credits can be redeemed for:
- Four (4) Health Informatics Essentials Courses (4 credits)
- Five (5) AMIA 10 X 10 Virtual Courses (50 Credits)
- Two (2) CIBRC Online Plus Courses (16 credits)
- One (1) AHIC Review Course (5 credits)
Become a Member
To learn more and join AMIA as a Health System Member, contact RaeLynn Gochnauer, Senior Vice President, Membership and Strategic Development.