Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security (CHPS) — AHIMA
AHIMA's Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security (CHPS) exam assesses how well you can protect patient health information, covering ethical, legal and regulatory issues, privacy and security program management, physical and technical safeguards, and investigation, compliance and enforcement. As data breaches carry growing consequences, CHPS signals specializt competence for privacy and security officer roles. SummitCert's portal helps you prepare with scenario-based questions and explanations, flashcards and a timed mock exam.
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Your full practice pool — 350 questions total, written to mirror the real exam blueprint, with full answer explanations for every question.
Including Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues/Environmental Assessment, Program Management and Administration, Information Technology/Physical and Technical Safeguards, and more.
A complete, realistic exam-day simulation with the same question count and time limit as the real thing.
Covering every key term, concept, and framework you're expected to know.
Hand-picked walkthroughs and explainers organized by topic.
Visual breakdowns of the frameworks and models the exam tests you on.
The exact formulas and calculations you need, ready to review before test day.
A searchable glossary so unfamiliar terminology never slows you down.
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See your accuracy by domain, spot weak areas early, and follow a built-in study schedule.
Tailored to this exam: it knows your progress and weak areas, remembers your earlier chats, and picks up where you left off on your other devices.
Study anywhere — your progress syncs on the device you are using and picks up where you left off.
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Topics you'll drill
4 core topics pulled straight from the real question bank.
- Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues/Environmental Assessment
- Program Management and Administration
- Information Technology/Physical and Technical Safeguards
- Investigation, Compliance, and Enforcement
CHPS exam requirements & cost
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The Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security (CHPS) exam is administered by AHIMA (the American Health Information Management Association), under the oversight of CCHIIM (the Commission on Certification for Health Informatics and Information Management). Eligibility runs six separate education-plus-experience paths, all requiring the underlying experience to be specifically in healthcare privacy or security work, not generic IT security or general compliance: a high school diploma or GED plus 6 years of qualifying experience; an associate's degree in a relevant field plus 4 years; a CCA, CCS, CCS-P, or RHIT credential plus 4 years; a bachelor's degree in a relevant field plus 2 years; an RHIA credential plus 2 years; or a master's degree or higher (including a JD, MD, or PhD in a relevant field) plus 1 year. The exam fee is $259 for AHIMA members and $329 for non-members, and a retake costs the same as the initial exam. On exam day, candidates get 3.5 hours for 150 multiple-choice-style questions, of which only 125 are scored — the other 25 are unscored pretest items mixed in undetectably — spread across four domains AHIMA's own content outline weights at 23-27% each: the ethical/legal/regulatory environment, program management, IT/physical safeguards, and investigation/compliance/enforcement.
CHPS exam blueprint
Real domain weighting from the certifying body's own published exam syllabus.
- Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues / Environmental Assessment25%
- Program Management and Administration25%
- Information Technology / Physical and Technical Safeguards25%
- Investigation, Compliance, and Enforcement25%
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