Foundational Knowledge of Analytics in Healthcare
How care is delivered and paid for, common datasets and quality measures, ICD, CPT, SNOMED CT, LOINC and RxNorm, regulatory reporting, epidemiology, and where AI fits.
14 to 16 % of the exam
In development · Health data analytics
Health Data Analytics
A course in development for people preparing for AHIMA's Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA) exam. It will cover the exam's six domains: healthcare data and terminologies, needs assessment, data acquisition, analysis, reporting, and governance.
Who it is for
Analysts who work with healthcare data.
For data analysts, health information professionals, and quality and finance staff who already pull and report healthcare data and want to cover everything the exam asks. AHIMA requires an RHIT or RHIA credential, or a bachelor's degree or higher, to sit the exam.
The exam
How the CHDA exam works.
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) sets and runs the exam. You take it at a Pearson VUE test centre or, in the United States, online with OnVUE.
- Questions
- 142, of which 121 are scored
- Time
- 3.5 hours
- Passing score
- 300
- Fee
- $259 for AHIMA members, $329 for others
Planned outline
What the course will cover.
The six domains of AHIMA's exam content outline, effective 1 February 2024, with the share of the exam each one carries. The course will have a module for each.
Business Needs Assessment
Turning a data request into a plan: who is asking, what they need, which metrics answer it, and how the analysis will be specified.
11 to 15 % of the exam
Data Acquisition
Finding sources and lineage, extracting data, judging its quality, cleaning it, and checking that transformations kept it correct.
14 to 18 % of the exam
Data Analysis
Querying data, choosing a method and explaining why, finding trends and anomalies, and benchmarking with risk adjustment.
22 to 25 % of the exam
Data Interpretation and Reporting
Reading results, stating assumptions and limits, choosing the right chart or dashboard, and explaining findings to the people who asked.
18 to 22 % of the exam
Data Governance
Policies for data access and ownership, database designs, HIPAA and other laws as they bear on analysis, and audit controls.
8 to 10 % of the exam
Sources, checked 23 October 2026: AHIMA's CHDA certification page; the CHDA exam content outline (PDF). AHIMA publishes the exam and owns its name; Polyseminar is an independent publisher (see the independence notice).
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