Bachelor of Health Information Management

Overview

• Graduates contribute to making a difference for patients and the community through the provision of health information services.
• Immerse yourself in current and emerging technologies through a workplace-led, eHealth-enabled environment to develop your skills in health information technology, people management, data and information management and the principles of medicine and health care.
• Bring all your knowledge and skills together in a practical setting, via the final year capstone unit.
• Graduates have excellent employment prospects in this fast growing field as there is a shortage of health information managers; graduates find employment in Australia and overseas.
• Applicants who have successfully completed an undergraduate degree in a health science or IT-related field may be eligible for credit for prior learning.

Details

QUT’s Faculty of Health is introducing a new Bachelor of Health Information Management course that reflects the Australian government’s implementation of health reforms and investment in eHealth and activity-based funding initiatives. These national reforms will significantly increase activities to support the collection, reporting, analysis and management of health information, and the development of health information infrastructure, for evidence-based decision making for healthcare and health service delivery.

Advanced standing

Applicants who have successfully completed an undergraduate degree in a health science or IT-related field may be eligible for up to one year of credit for prior learning (advanced standing).

Why choose this course?

QUT has designed this specialist Health Information Management degree to provide graduates with skills and competencies in health management information systems to provide evidence for policy, funding and decision making, to support administrative and clinical work flows, to undertake human resource management and business analysis.

Qualified health information managers focus on providing information management solutions to support health care, planning, public health and medical research. Health Information Management skills are needed to help provide sustainable solutions to improve national and facility-based health information systems. Getting the right information at the right time into the hands of clinicians, health workers, health officials and policy makers facilitates informed decisions.

Course summary

Commencing in February 2013, the Bachelor of Health Information Management program embraces current and emerging technologies, to immerse students in a workplace-led, eHealth-enabled environment to develop skills in health information technology, people management, data and information management within the context, and including the principles, of medicine and health care.

A selection of units within the Bachelor of Health Information Management course are offered in block mode:

• Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology
• Introduction to Clinical Classification
• Advanced Clinical Classification

The degree culminates in a capstone unit that will provide preparation for transition into the workplace by bringing together the knowledge acquired in a practical setting.

Career outcomes

Health Information Management graduates contribute to making a difference for patients and the community through the provision of health information services. There are excellent employment prospects in a fast growing field.

There is currently a shortage of health information managers within Australia and graduates find employment, both here and overseas, in a range of environments including:

• hospitals and other health facilities
• government health departments
• health computing/software development firms
• health insurance companies
• health research centres
• the pharmaceutical industry
• statistical agencies
• international aid agencies
• non-governmental organisations

Careers:

• Health information services manager
• Chief information officer
• Clinical data manager
• Health data and casemix analyst
• Clinical coder/coding auditor/coding educator
• eHealth project officer
• General and clinical administration
• Clinical governance and risk management officer
• Health privacy officer

Units

Entry requirements

Minimum academic requirements

Did you complete secondary school in Australia?

Course fees

Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. All fees are based on current fixed fee prices. We review fees annually.

Scholarships and financial support

You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.

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