Health Data Management (HDM), also known as Health Information Management (HIM) is the process of organising healthcare data in digital form. This can include an Electronic Medical Record (EMR), an Electronic Health Record (EHR), to handwritten medical notes scanned to a digital repository.
Health data management is required to organise medical data for analysis to make patient care more efficient, and derive insights that can improve medical outcomes, while protecting the privacy and security of the data.