HIS employees vital to health care system

Quality information is essential to all aspects of today's healthcare system. Health information management (HIM) is the body of knowledge and practice that ensures the availability of health information to facilitate real-time healthcare delivery and critical health-related decision making for multiple purposes across diverse organizations, settings, and disciplines.

Quality information is essential to all aspects of today's healthcare system. Health information management (HIM) is the body of knowledge and practice that ensures the availability of health information to facilitate real-time healthcare delivery and critical health-related decision making for multiple purposes across diverse organizations, settings, and disciplines.

HIM Professionals work in 40 different settings under 125 different job titles. They often serve in “bridge roles” that connect clinical, operational, and administrative functions, helping to create synergy among departments through data. In short, members affect the quality of patient information—and patient care—at every touch point in the healthcare delivery cycle.

Having skilled HIM professionals on staff ensures that an organization has the right information available when and where it is needed while maintaining the highest standards of data integrity, confidentiality, and security.

Members  are employed in a variety of work settings, including hospitals, physician offices, ambulatory care facilities, managed care facilities, long-term care facilities, consulting firms, information system vendors, colleges and universities, insurance providers, pharmaceutical companies, rehabilitation centers, and many more. They perform diverse roles in healthcare. Director of health data and informatics at a government agency