What's Health Info. Health information management may be the career you are seeking. 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. 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 following Australian universities offer accredited 3 or 3 year undergraduate degrees.