Health Information Management professionals are managers; experts in processing, analyzing and reporting information vital to the health care industry. Health Information Management professionals are respected staff members who interact daily with the medical staff, financial manager and hospital administrative staff, all of whom depend on health information to perform their jobs. These professionals don't just work in hospitals. They work for accounting firms, insurance companies, information systems vendors, government, pharmaceutical research, and others. A wide variety of employers actively recruit health information managers.
A major in Health Information Management provides a basis for many types of careers in clinical settings, government, research, information management and healthcare administration. For some careers, advanced study or field or laboratory experience may be required. Additional graduate study is expected for those occupations preceded by a * on the following list.
Hospital Setting
| Non-traditional settings
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Physical/clinic setting
| Research
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Computers
| Other
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Skills acquired in a Health Information Management major fall into four categories: records management, administration and management, computers and electronics and customer and personal service. Students with health information management majors develop the ability to formulate concepts allowing them to solve practical problems and to find better ways of meeting world needs.
Such skills are applicable to job responsibilities in a variety of fields such as the sciences, business, government, and education. For example, the ability to conduct investigations and to perform analyses may be employed differently on a daily basis by a college administrator, a director of biomedical communications, a genetic engineer, a curator of a natural history museum, and a teacher. The following list presents some examples of the skills developed and used by students in the health information management
Records management
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Computers and Electronics
| Customer and Personal Service
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