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About Inteleos

Let’s make healthcare better, together

Inteleos began with a simple idea: when healthcare professionals commit to clear, trusted standards, patients benefit. Today, that idea unites a global community of sonographers, physicians, educators, and partners in a gold standard of care.

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Inteleos creates the global standards of excellence in healthcare.

OUR VISION OF SUCCESS

Our Mission is focused on outcomes

Inteleos fuels the global health community to ensure equitable access to quality care.

After 50 years of building trust in healthcare credentialing, Inteleos has an opportunity to not only reinvent assessment, but build bridges through our new strategic policy. Our vision and mission ground this journey at every step, from innovating assessment to expanding access to care in new specialties, and new regions around the world.

150,000+ medical professionals

hold Inteleos certifications

124 countries

represented in the Inteleos community

1,800,000+ patients

cared for each day by Inteleos certificants

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Our strategic policy drives new ways of operating

Inteleos will bridge global healthcare ecosystems through trusted data, validation, and continuous learning.

THE INTELEOS STORY

By 2032, Inteleos will be the indispensable global orchestrator of healthcare professional learning, validation, and data—moving beyond episodic certification to continuous, AI-enabled stewardship of competency and career pathways that drive clinical excellence and business sustainability across a flourishing health ecosystem.

Inteleos should be defined not by what it certifies, but by the ecosystem it orchestrates, the careers it transforms, and the trust it enables in global healthcare.

We commit to:

+ Delivering unwavering quality

+ Keep learning

+ Imagining novel approaches

+ Sharing discoveries

+ Keeping our mission in focus

+ Leading the evolution of healthcare professional development globally

Our community

ARDMS®, APCA™ and the Point-of-Care Ultrasound Certification Academy™ are part of the nonprofit Inteleos™ community of certification alliances. The Inteleos Foundation directly supports the mission of Inteleos.

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ARDMS

VISION

The American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) creates the global standards of professional excellence in sonography.

MISSION

The American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) empowers sonographers to provide exceptional patient care through rigorous assessments and continual learning.

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APCA

VISION

The Alliance for Physician Certification and Advancement (APCA) creates the global standards of physician excellence in patient care.

MISSION

The Alliance for Physician Certification and Advancement (APCA) recognizes physicians’ enduring commitment to the highest quality patient care through rigorous assessments and continual learning.

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Point-of-Care Ultrasound Certification Academy

VISION

The Point-of-Care Ultrasound Certification Academy™ is committed to ensuring the highest POCUS standards in global healthcare and patient safety.

MISSION

The Point-of-Care Ultrasound Certification Academy™ will validate clinical proficiency in POCUS by delivering rigorous assessments, providing educational opportunities, and cultivating a global POCUS community.

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Inteleos Foundation

VISION

Our strength comes from our shared and enduring belief that global health is dramatically improved when medical professionals have verifiable, professional certification.

MISSION

The mission of the Inteleos Foundation is to engage partners and secure sources of funding to support innovation in technology and assessments to improve global health programs.

Inteleos’ Statement on Access to Quality Healthcare

At Inteleos we believe all women deserve access to quality health care from certified ultrasound professionals.

As a certification organization, Inteleos asserts that medical professionals who perform ultrasound should be able to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and abilities through standardized, rigorous assessments. Certification from an independent, third-party organization should be required to ensure best practices in quality patient care. This expectation of quality care should extend to all people in all health care settings.

We encourage patients to advocate for quality care by confirming that the ultrasound professional who will perform their sonogram is appropriately certified for their health and safety.

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