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Career Information Career Information: What's Health Information Management (HIM)?
The Heart of Healthcare What do HIMs Do?
The Best Part of the Job HIM Work Places
A Career in HIM? Career Education
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Are you interested in a career combining health, management and computing? Health information management may be the career you are seeking. Positioned at the heart of the health care system, health information managers' (HIMs) professional responsibilities cover the collection, storage, analysis and distribution of healthcare information.
HIMs contribute both to the healthcare system and to people’s health by providing the information systems and data central for medical decision making and patient care planning. HIMs coordinate many kinds of healthcare information, from a variety of sources.
Some are paper based, but increasingly, they are in the form of electronic patient records.
What Do Health Information Managers (HIMs) Do? Health information managers (HIMs) design and manage information systems in the healthcare system.
HIMs collect and generate records and reports about patients who are being treated by doctors and other clinicians. HIMs use their clinical knowledge of disease and surgical procedures, technical knowledge of computer systems and databases and their management skills to set up and monitor these systems.
HIMs also play a key role in the security and legal use of people's medical records and health information by establishing appropriate procedures and handling and protecting personal data.
The Best Part of the HIM Job Health information managers report the following aspects of the HIM job as most satisfying:
Contact with a wide range of people and professions Challenges brought on by developments in healthcare and information technology
The design and use of sophisticated health information systems Opportunities to specialise in computing, financial and health services management
Being part of the healthcare team Planning and implementation of projects
HIM Work Places
Computer and information technology (IT) companies State and federal health departments
Health insurance companies Public and private hospitals
Community health services
A Career in Health Information Management? A career in health information management offers:
Excellent employment prospects in a fast growing field Opportunities to specialise in computing, financial and health services management
Opportunities to work in the computer industry or health industry Opportunities to work in the public or private sectors
Useful skills that can be used throughout Australia and in many other countries
Undergraduate Study To become a health information manager, you need to complete an accredited undergraduate or postgraduate degree. The following Australian universities offer accredited 3 or 3½ year undergraduate degrees. For information about courses and entry requirements, contact the Schools of Health Information Management in Australian Universities:
CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Perth, Western Australia) HOME PAGE: http://www.curtin.edu.au/ SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/health/ DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/handbook/courses/15/157599.html
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY (Melbourne, Victoria) HOME PAGE: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/publichealth/ HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/publichealth/HIM/ COURSE INQUIRIES: healthinfo@latrobe.edu.au
QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Brisbane, Queensland) HOMEPAGE: http://www.qut.edu.au/ SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: http://www.hlth.qut.edu.au/ph/
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (Sydney, New South Wales) HOME PAGE: http://www.usyd.edu.au FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCE: http://www.fhs.usyd.edu.au SCHOOL OF HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: http://www.fhs.usyd.edu.au/him/
TAFE OTEN: OPEN TRAINING & EDUCATION NETWORK: http://www.oten.edu.au/oten/ Additional course and entrance information is available from university admissions centres, these universities, careers advisers, and employment services.
Post-Graduate Study
To become a health information manager, you need to complete an accredited undergraduate or postgraduate degree. Additional course and entrance information is available from university admissions centres, The University of Sydney, careers advisers, and employment services.
Professional Representation
As students, and after graduation, HIMs can join the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA). HIMAA is the professional organisation representing HIMs throughout Australia and provides continuing education opportunities for its members.
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