Empowering Students
Scholarship support empowers deserving students to achieve their academic goals and positions them for successful careers. The Foundation’s scholarship programs reward and acknowledge student accomplishments, reward and acknowledge hard work and motivate progress toward academic goals.
Merit Scholarships
The AHIMA Foundation attracts new talent to the health information management field by supporting scholarship opportunities for current and future health information professionals. The AHIMA Foundation offers merit scholarships to outstanding students enrolled in health information and health information technology programs.
Our 2020 scholarship application season is closed. Please look for additional updates for our 2021 candidates.
Scholarship Details
The AHIMA Foundation offers four levels of merit scholarships:
Associate's Degree
- Amount: $1,000 award
- Type: For students pursuing a Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM)-accredited AA degree in HIM or HIT
Bachelor's Degree/Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
- Amount: $1,500 award
- Type: For students pursuing a CAHIIM-accredited BA/BS degree or a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in HIM or HIT
Master's Degree
- Amount: $2,000 award
- Type: For students pursuing a master's degree in areas related to HIM or health informatics
Doctoral Degree
- Amount: $2,500 award
- Type: For students pursuing a doctoral degree in an area related to health information
Eligibility & Requirements
- Current member of the American Health Information Management Association
- Actively enrolled in a minimum of six (6) credit hours towards pursuing a degree
- Completed 24 credit hours towards a degree (for graduate degree applicants, this can include undergraduate credit hours)
- Have at least six (6) credit hours remaining after the award date (after December 30)
- Achieved a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 (out of 4.0) or 4.5 (out of 5.0) based on the most recently completed 24 credit hours
- Have not been awarded any AHIMA Foundation scholarship for the academic degree being sought through this application
- Submit a completed online application and all its components
Application and Award Dates for 2020
- Aug 1: Online Application Opens
- Sept 30: Online Application Closes
- Nov 30: Award Notifications Made
- Dec 30: Awards Mailed
Look for updates for our 2021 scholarship season.
Giving
Provide Greater Financial Security
Health data is a vital element of health care, including efforts to curb the pandemic.
By doing their jobs effectively, health Information professionals, enable providers more time to focus on patient care. Health Information professionals are making a tremendous difference as our world tries to curb COVID-19.