Continuing Education: Ethics

Discover ethics related content for the HIMSS Certifications renewal requirement and advance your knowledge while maintaining your certification.

Ethics continuing education (CE)

HIMSS requires all applicants and certificants to adhere to minimum conduct standards. For each program, two of the 30 or 45 continuing education hours, as applicable, must be related to ethics or conflict of interest.

To fulfill the ethics requirement, you may use any CEs related specifically to ethics in your profession. You may also explore these HIMSS resources:

• Establishing and Practicing Ethical Standards: Both a Professional and Personal Responsibility | PDF Book Chapter
• A Confusing Muddle: Health Policy Post-Dobbs | Video
• Data Justice: Ethical Practices for Equitable Health | Video
• Biases in Datasets, Ethical Mindsets and Designing Fair AI | Video
• Ethics and Green IT: Tailoring Digital Maturity to European Values | Video
• Improving Nurse Staffing Schedules Using Responsible and Ethical Machine Learning | Video

CE credit requirements

CAHIMS® and CPHIMS® certifications

• Must earn CE within three-year cycle
• Must be relevant to the healthcare information and management systems field
• 45 credits total, 25 of which must be provided by HIMSS approved programs

CPDHTS® certification

• Must earn CE within two-year cycle
• Must be relevant to the healthcare information and management systems field
• 30 credits, 15 of which much be provided by HIMSS approved programs