Competency Framework
CHIA Competency Framework
The competency framework was developed by academic leaders in health informatics following extensive research and comparative modelling of competencies from across the globe, with the first edition published in December 2013.
The second edition of competency framework published in February 2022 encompasses the dynamic nature of digital health, the challenges, and opportunities it presents.
Designed with a focus on the Australian healthcare system, the competencies framework is the backbone of CHIA, Australia’s industry certification for health informaticians.
Domain A. Health Sciences
9 Competencies
Health informaticians interpret health science in order to communicate with stakeholders and contextualise their work. This includes understanding the structure and performance of health systems, population health, models of care, determinants of health, and core concepts underpinning healthcare.
Domain B. Information Science
Health informaticians apply information science to design, develop, capture, analyse, present, and preserve high quality data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. This includes the theory and practice of analytics, interpretation, and communication.
Domain C. Information Technology
Health informaticians apply information technology concepts to ensure quality information and transaction processing. This includes system requirements, information system lifecycle, information and communications technology investments, and system security.
Domain D. Leadership and Management
Health informaticians apply leadership and management principles to functions, projects, and programs. This includes governance, stakeholder engagement, information culture, value and benefits realisation, and the management of quality, risk, relationships, and change.
Domain E. Social and Behavioural Sciences
Health informaticians apply social and behavioural science principles for evidence informed decision making. This includes legislative, regulatory, and policy frameworks, problem solving, sociotechnical systems, ethics, and human centred design.
Domain F. Core Health Informatics Principles
Health informaticians select relevant core competencies for the management of healthcare data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. These competencies are built on the methods and findings from decades of scholarly research in the discipline.
