We suggest to you how best to acquire, analyze and protect digital and traditional medical information vital to providing quality patient care. The widespread computerization of medical records using traditional (paper-based) methods are being replaced with Electronic Health Records (EHRs) or Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). The tools of health informatics and health information technology are being increasingly utilized to introduce efficiency in information management practices in the health care sector. Both hospital information systems and health human resources information systems (HRHIS) are common implementations of HIM that we undertake.

As health information management professionals we do the following:

• plan information systems,
• develop health policy, and
• identify current and future information needs.

In addition, we may also apply the science of informatics to the collection, storage, analysis, use, and transmission of information to meet legal, professional, ethical and administrative records-keeping requirements of health care delivery.

We work with clinical, epidemiological, demographic, financial, reference, and coded healthcare data. In playing a critical role in the delivery of healthcare, we focus on the collection, maintenance and use of quality data to support the information-intensive and information-reliant healthcare system.

The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that the proper collection, management and use of information within healthcare systems “will determine the system’s effectiveness in detecting health problems, defining priorities, identifying innovative solutions and allocating resources to improve health outcomes.