Health Information Management

Student Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the HIM program will be able to:

• Apply the laws of patient record confidentiality, privacy, and compliance
• Use and design data, databases, and healthcare systems
• Demonstrate and apply knowledge of the principles of personnel management
• Develop a financial plan for a health information management department
• Demonstrate mastery of the principles of health information management
• Analyze healthcare data; assimilate data and information

Career Options

Graduates obtaining their Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) certification are qualified to be a Health Information Department Manager or Director, a Coding Manager, a Healthcare Systems Manager, a Data Analyst, a Quality or Compliance Coordinator, or a College/University Professor of Health Information Technology or Health Information Management.

Directed Clinical Practice Requirement

Students accepted into this program will be required to successfully complete DCP, clinically-based courses held in health care facilities. These facilities may require background checks, including fingerprinting and drug screening, as a condition of placement at the clinic. Refusal to submit to a background check, or failure to meet clearance criteria established by the health care facility, may prevent placement in DCP courses and thus, it may not be possible to successfully complete the program. Health care facilities also require adherence to strict standards of conduct. Facilities may refuse educational access to any person who does not adhere to the facility’s standards of safety, health and ethical behavior. This may be cause for removal from the program.

Tentative  Fall Schedule

Session 1
(8 week)

Session 2
 (8 week)

Health Information Management