Pre-Health Information Management
IntroductionBecome an expert on patient data that other health care providers rely on to perform their jobs effectively.
WHY STUDY PRE-HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT?
Health information managers design and manage health information systems to ensure they meet medical, legal and ethical standards. Some of their responsibilities include collecting and analyzing patient data; ensuring patient’s medical records are complete and accurate; and designing, generating and analyzing reports for administrators and physicians.
Our program leads to a bachelor’s degree and your becoming a registered health information technician.
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
You will start your studies on our campus, where you will take courses your first two years. You will transfer to the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in Pittsburgh to finish your last two years.
WHAT CAN I DO WITH A DEGREE IN PRE-HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT?
Our program, which is one of about 50 such programs in the United States, is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education. When you successfully finish your courses, you will be eligible to sit for the AHIMA Registration Examination to become credentialed as a registered health information administrator.
Employers:
- Hospitals
- Clinics
- Educational services
- Nursing care facilities
- Home health agencies
- Outpatient care services
- Community care centers
- Private practice
Featured Courses in This Program
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BIOL 0091
Concepts Of BiologyDesigned for the non-major. A survey of biological concepts providing students with a good understanding of how biology relates to everyday life. -
CIST 0150
Fundamentals Of ProgrammingThe course is designed to provide the student with an adequate understanding of programming concepts and principles to enable the student to design and implement programs for his or her own use or use in the classroom. -
CIST 0161
The Technology Of ComputingIt professionals will encounter a variety of platforms in their career. The role of the professional is to select, deploy, integrate, and administer platforms or components to support the organization's it infrastructure. This course covers the fundamentals of hardware and software and how they integrate to form essential components of it systems. -
MATH 0133
StatisticsThis is an introductory statistics course and covers methods of summarizing data, descriptive statistics, probability and probability distributions, sampling distributions, the central limit theorem, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and regression analysis. Mathematical derivations and formulas are stressed.
You’ll be able to enroll in a Freshman Guarantee program for the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences if you meet certain criteria.