Life today is challenging, but starting your HIM career has never been as easy, affordable, and rewarding.

Our online delivery allows you to choose when you study

Study any time that works for you and continue working
Two stream options to suit different lifestyles (2-year full-time, 4-year part-time)
Flexible practicum schedules and opportunities

Our affordability makes us an appealing choice for families and those who may be underemployed

No campus-related fees because we are fully online
Installment plans are available
Most affordable HIM tuition fees in Canada because we are a charitable not-for-profit

Our very high student satisfaction rate

We provide student-centered, personal and caring service
Our students and their employers consistently recommend our program to others
Our graduates are highly employable mature professionals

Our high pass rate on CHIMA’s National Exam 

Each year, almost 1 in 4 HIM graduates across Canada come from CHA Learning
Our graduates consistently achieve above-average scores on the certification exam
In 2018, our graduates’ pass rate was 7% higher than the average of all exam writers across Canada

Our presence as a national healthcare leader 

We are a non-profit charity with a 100+ year history
We serve our members, the healthcare organizations across Canada, so we understand the health system
We speak for our Members and provide extensive health policy, advocacy, and professional development services
Most HIM graduates will be employed by one of our Members 

Our remarkable faculty from across Canada 

We have a team of highly-educated and experienced faculty who work with us to design our curriculum and support students individually

Yes! HIM professionals are constantly in demand across Canada. In some jurisdictions, there is a great shortage of qualified professionals. Challenging times like this Covid-19 pandemic highlight the incredible importance of high quality, complete and readily available health information and data.  

The HIM profession is changing in exciting ways as more and more healthcare organizations adopt electronic health records. There are critical roles for HIM professionals in planning, implementing and maintaining those record and the records within them. New roles in health informatics, clinical documentation improvement, terminology standards, data quality, data analysis and other more technical roles are expanding the field of HIM dramatically. For those who are interested in these area, there hasn’t been a more exciting time to enter the field. 

CHA Learning offers post-graduate specialty education for HIM professionals too like our Coding Specialist Program, our Leadership and Management Programs or our Quality and Safety offerings.  

Practicums are an important and valuable part of HIM education because people get to experience the real world and real work of the HIM profession and learn alongside experienced professionals.  

CHA Learning students get practicums in many interesting settings and we have many affiliation agreements with organizations all over the country. Our practicum schedules are extremely flexible to suit your work and life schedule.  

We also offer practicum project alternatives for those who are unable to secure practicums in their area or due to challenging personal circumstances, or environmental situations like the current Covid-19 pandemic. 

• Student Name: Elaine  
• Stream: Full-Time Year 1  
• Age Range: 35-44 
• Location: Calgary, AB 

Currently, I wear many different hats. I’m a busy wife and a mother of two young daughters, ages 4 and 6.  I am also an older student working towards a career change. 

My family and I are first generation Canadians that came over in the 70’s from Hong Kong. My parents were newly married and wanted to get as far away as possible from their family.  My father saw an advertisement in the newspaper looking for a chef for a small ski resort town in BC. It wasn’t false pretenses, but they did advertise the location as Vancouver, BC when it was actually Fernie, BC, thinking that it was just a few hours away when it was more like 14. But, my fondest childhood memories were growing up skiing, snowboarding and shoveling.

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• Student: Sebastien
• Stream: Full-Time Year 2 
• Age Range: 25-34 
• Location: Perth-Andover, NB 

I am a young adult with a small family that is currently working part-time at a rural hospital. I enjoy reading and traveling when I get the occasion. I also play the piano in my spare time and focus on spending as much time with my family as I can. 

What drew you into the field of HIM and your studies? 

The health authority that I worked for was experiencing a shortage of HIM staff around the province. Therefore, they began a recruitment program about the HIM field and what it entails. They offered to pay for the tuition and allowed me to work part time while taking the program with CHA Learning. The content of the course was very interesting and opened my eyes to a career that I previously knew little about. One of the main things that got my attention was the advancement and development of the HIM career over the last few decades. I knew at once that this kind of field would have multiple options for me in the future. 

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• Student: Krysten 
• Stream: Part-Time Year 1 
• Age Range: 25-34
• Location: Welland, ON 

My name is Krysten. I’m 32 years old and I have a 6-year-old daughter who is the love of my life. I grew up in a small town in Southern Ontario. I have a tight knit family consisting of two loving parents, two wonderful brothers, and myself. I am also very close with my maternal grandparents and see them almost daily. Family relationships are extremely important to me and I work hard to ensure that they are maintained.  

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• Student: Rhonda  
• Stream: Full-Time Year 1 
• Age Range: 25-34 
• Location: Listowel, ON 

I am a motivated individual who enjoys working. I have always had multiple jobs and enjoy being busy. I recently had my first child, who is 4 months old. We are enjoying the time off, but I am staying busy as a new mom does. I enjoy reading mystery novels in my spare time and learning new things regularly. I enjoy the challenge of the HIM program and love that I constantly am learning new things on a regular basis. 

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• Student: Prakash  
• Stream: Part-time Year 1 
• Age Range: 45-54 
• Location: Markham, ON 

I am a foreign trained medical graduate with a master level education in public health from the University of London. If not a doctor, I would have become a pharmacist. Yes, I love Pharmacology. Luckily, I had the opportunity to teach Pharmacology to international medical students for one term in the undergraduate medical program at the Nanchang University in China.  

 I was born in a village in rural Gujarat, India. I did my schooling in various government and private schools initially in rural areas, and then in an urban city in Gujarat state. But in all the schools that I have attended, the medium of instruction was Gujarati. I learned my first English alphabet in grade 5. Being a strong student, I was accepted into medical school.  

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