HI 5307 Health Information Management
This course provides an overview of Health Information Management (HIM) a discipline dedicated to the practice of acquiring, analyzing, and protecting digital and traditional medical information vital to delivering quality patient care in addition to providing trusted data for public health analysis, quality initiatives, performance improvement efforts and strategic planning. Changes in the healthcare market with clinical care expanding beyond physical walls, increased consumer engagement in healthcare, payers serving as case managers and a mobile society have high- lighted the need for trusted data exchange. Nationally we are striving to improve outcomes while decreasing costs thus financial model changes are underway. The HIM profession supports these initiatives with data normalization across platforms by leveraging standards, classification systems, clinical vocabularies, and nomenclatures. The HIM discipline can be described as the “translator” of healthcare data regardless of where generated by creating trusted information. The creation and normalization of data is important element within an informaticsprogram.