Career Description Health Information Management is an exciting, challenging career.
Health information needs to be collected, secured, processed, coded, managed.
Join the cadre of sophisticated health information administrators who are creating the new architecture and management processes for the electronic medical record, the cornerstone of the emerging medical informatics field. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that more than 47,000 additional health information professionals will be needed by the year 2005. Significant employment opportunities are available for entry level specialists and there is an excellent potential for professional growth. Increasingly, employers are information systems vendors and developers, software developers and marketers, insurance companies, law firms, physician groups, information management consulting firms, accounting and financial management consultants, health data organizations, specialty provider organizations such as mental healthcare facilities and hospice programs, skilled nursing facilities, and others. A career in Health information management positions you to directly effect the present and future of medical privacy and the electronic storage, processing and transmission of medical records and health information.