Health Informatics and Information Management (HIIM) is the study of the principles and practices of acquiring, analyzing, and protecting digital and traditional medical information vital to providing quality patient care. HIIM links clinicians, technology designers, and information technology; and is the value-adding bridge between leadership and management of health information in all formats (paper, scanned, or computerized forms), and are a critical component of the electronic health record (EHR) work-force. HIIM also focuses on information systems, informatics principles, and information technology as it is applied to the continuum of healthcare delivery.
Health Informatics and Information Management (HIIM) combines business, science and information technology.
The HIIM curriculum includes training in compliance/risk management, healthcare privacy and security, health informatics/data analysis, clinical documentation improvement, information governance, operations/medical records administration and revenue cycle management (coding and billing).
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