Requirements
To maintain your CPHIT or CPEHR, you are required to earn CE and pay the $100 maintenance of certification fee on a bi-annual basis. For example, if you earned the CPEHR in February 2007, your first renewal is due on December 31, 2009. Your next certification renewal after this would be due on December 31, 2011.
If you have earned both CPHIT and CPEHR, your renewal of both certifications is based on the date of the first certification earned. For example, if you earned the CPEHR in May 2005 and the CPHIT in January 2007, you need to earn 12 CE hours and pay the $100 maintenance of certification fee by December 31, 2007. Your next certification renewal after this (for both certifications) would be due December 31, 2009.
Applicable CE activities include attendance at seminars, training programs, audio-conferences, journal clubs, and demonstrations sponsored by healthcare professional associations, societies, or other organizations providing information new to you on EHR and HIT, as well as other CE activities relating to EHR and HIT that provide you with new information on EHR and HIT and are recognized for their contribution by healthcare professional associations, publishers, or other organizations relating to EHR and HIT (e.g., article on EHR).
Health IT Certification will revoke the credential(s) of any individual who fails to complete the CE requirement and/or pay the registration fee by December 31 at the end of the two-year cycle. If your certification is revoked, you may apply to have your certification restored.
Process
Health IT Certification, LLC, maintains a web site for posting your CE. When you are ready to post your CE hours, log on at the User Login tab with the User ID and Password which were sent to you when you were first certified, or the password that you have subsequently changed to. Complete the online form with the following information. (Clock hours are rounded to nearest whole number; e.g., 90 minutes = 1 hour, 105 minutes = 2 hours.) You may fax or mail your renewal by downloading the form from the web.
Retain a copy of evidence of any CE you post (e.g., certificate of attendance, program agenda signed by program sponsor or speaker, copy of publication). Once payment is completed and CE posted, Health IT Certification, LLC, will notify you that your credentials have been validated. Health IT Certification, LLC, reserves the right to request evidence of your continuing education activities, and to revoke any credentials where such evidence cannot be supplied within the designated timeframe or for failure to complete the CE requirement by December 31st of the applicable year.
These requirements are effective April 11, 2007. Any changes that may be made in these requirements will be posted to the Health IT Certification website 90 days in advance of their effective date.
To submit your CE Credits, please download the form and mail or fax the completed form with payment to:
