Health Information Management

If you are organized, detail-oriented and work well under pressure, the Health Information Management program is for you. This program is designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge required to collect, secure, and maintain patient information used for decision making in healthcare. Health Information Management (HIM) 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 demonstrate 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) workforce.

• High School Diploma or Adult High School Diploma or GED Diploma of High School Equivalency
• Geometry and Applications in Mathematics 112 and Functions and Relations 112
• One (1) additional science from the following:
• • Biology 112 or 122 (Recommended)
  • Chemistry 112 or 122
  • Physics 112 or 122

As a graduate, you could be involved in acute care within the: Department of Health records, health information management, decision support, quality management, research and statistics, information systems, utilization and risk management at government agencies, privacy commissioners’ offices, educational institutions, community health clinics, pharmaceutical companies, primary care agencies, home care, mental health programs, outreach programs, nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

1122 - Professional Occupations in Business Services to Management

• Health Care in Canada
• Coding Classification
• Anatomy & Physiology
• Pathophysiology
• Medical Terminology
• Digital Records
• Pharmacology
• Quality Improvement
• Health Systems Software
• Data Analysis
• Coding and Abstracting
• Health Care Law
• Epidemiology
• Biostatistics
• Research Methods

This program has a work placement component within its curriculum as a requirement for certification. Students may be required by host agencies or employers to provide a current criminal record check from a police service recognized by the host agency or employer before they may start their work placement. Individuals who have been convicted criminally and not pardoned may be prohibited from proceeding to a work placement. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that he or she is eligible to participate. Language of instruction for this program is in English. Due to the linguistic needs of our population, the Department of Health requires some graduates who are able to function in both English and French. As a result, a certain number of the seats are set-aside in this program for bilingual students. To be considered for a bilingual placement in this program, please indicate your Mother tongue on the NBCC application form, and submit the necessary Language Proficiency Certificates in your second language. If neither English nor French is your Mother tongue, Language Proficiency Certificates in both languages will be required. Language Proficiency Certificates as issued by Post-Secondary Education and Labour (PETL) are the standard used by the Government of New Brunswick and non-government agencies to determine an individual’s ability to function in either of our two official languages. Certificates in Oral and Writing proficiency indicating Level (4) competency are accepted as evidence of the necessary bilingual status to be considered. Students are responsible for obtaining the necessary language proficiency certificates and the associated costs. Information regarding language evaluation may be obtained by contacting the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour - Linguistic Services: Telephone: (506) 453-2260 Fax: (506) 453-5317 E-Mail: LS-SL@gnb.ca The language evaluation application form is available on the Service NB Web site: www.snb.ca. This is a L.I.V.E. program. NBCC L.I.V.E. students have a world of knowledge at their fingertips via the NBCC wireless network. Classes that use the L.I.V.E. program are different from traditional classes because students may find themselves completing class assignments online or maintaining an electronic journal. When not in the classroom, students can still communicate with their classmates and instructors in an electronic medium, measure their knowledge through online tests, or simply conduct research on the internet. To find out more about how L.I.V.E. works, click here

Health Information Management is accredited as follows:

Health Information Management graduates may have an opportunity to aquire the following external certifications upon meeting the external agencies certification requirements and paying any required fees to the external agency: