Diploma in Health Information Management
- Country Canada
- Course Duration 2 year
- Course Type Full Time
- Courses Campus On Campus
- Language Specification IELTS
- Program Level Diploma
- Education Required 2-Year Undergraduate Diploma
- Admission intake SEP
- Minimum GPA 50
Application Charges
| Application Fee | Tution Fee |
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| CAD 110 | CAD 15,190 |
Application Date
| Application Start Date | Application Closing Date |
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2022-12-05
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Program Description
George Brown College's Health Information Management (C139) is a two-year diploma program that focuses on providing the skills and knowledge needed by health information practitioners and prepares graduates to participate in the collection and organization of health information. This program is fully accredited by the Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA).The Health Information Management Curriculum content emphasizes:
- biomedical sciences
- health informatics
- health record systems
- medical classification systems and coding
- data collection
- statistical analysis and presentation
- health-care legislation
HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS:
- work with health-care providers and stakeholders to transition from the paper health record to the electronic health record
- develop, implement and maintain health information systems
- protect patient information and promote confidentiality awareness
- control the release of medico-legal information
- evaluate standards of documentation according to established criteria
- provide essential information for clinical research, quality improvement, utilization review, budgeting and other administrative applications
Your Field Education Options
Field placement plays an important role in George Brown's Health Information Management program by giving students the chance to apply what they've learned in the classroom to a real-world environment.In semester 2, students will be placed at a health-care facility for one week at the end of the semester. During that week, students will be exposed to various components of health data such as: the collection of, type of and privacy issues related to data.During second year, field placement is integrated throughout semesters 3 & 4. Students will visit a partner office every Friday until the end of semester 4, at which point they will go on a three-week block placement. During that time, students will be expected to complete a project related to health data to include an analysis of data and health-data-related issues.The type of sites where students can expect to conduct their field experiences include:
- health-care facilities
- Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
- health-related insurance companies
- Ontario Hospital Association
- community care access centres
Program Learning Outcomes
The graduate demonstrates the ability to:
- Keep current with relevant local, national and global health care and health information management issues, trends, technologies and standards to support health information management systems and processes and guide professional development.
- Assess personal health information from individual client visits for accuracy, completeness and consistency using knowledge of biomedical sciences, medical diagnoses and interventions, causes of diseases, and medical terminology, abbreviations and acronyms.
- Apply current, accurate codes and standards to relevant personal health information from individual client visits using health information, coding, classification and abstracting systems proficiently.
- Comply with the legal obligations, as well as with the professional, ethical and organizational standards that ensure privacy, security and confidentiality in the access, retention, storage and disposal of personal health information.
- Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of health information management practices, policies and processes to support client care, organizational goals, operations, and regulatory compliance.
- Participate in maintaining the completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness and integrity of health information throughout the management of its lifecycle.
- Use knowledge of systems interoperability standards, database architecture, software versioning, classification and terminology mapping, data collection requirements, legal obligations, and the health information management lifecycle and apply fundamental project management principles and practices to support the procurement and implementation of health information management systems.
- Retrieve and release personal health information in response to legitimate requests, in accordance with statutory requirements, and within specified deadlines.
- Participate in the retrieval, analysis and presentation of relevant health information to stakeholders to support organizational decision-making, epidemiological studies and clinical research.
- Work professionally, ethically and collaboratively with stakeholders and as a member of the interdisciplinary health care team, within a structured, regulated and evolving system of health care, to enhance the collection, distribution, use, security and awareness of quality health information and its impact on client care.
- Use current and emerging technologies to support the management, analysis and presentation of health information.
Extra Notes
* NOTE : The Tuition Fee is subject to change Semester wise, as such for exact Tuition Fee kindly see the Website of the respective University.
* NOTE : Pathways : Students who want to pursue a Graduate Degree through a particular University but are unable to meet the university requirements for the GPA, GRE/GMAT or English Language scores, have to take up an additional academic and language support i.e. pathways in order to ensure the admit and study at the desired University.
* NOTE : Pathways : Students who want to pursue a Graduate Degree through a particular University but are unable to meet the university requirements for the GPA, GRE/GMAT or English Language scores, have to take up an additional academic and language support i.e. pathways in order to ensure the admit and study at the desired University.
