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Pre-Health Information Management

Pre-Health Information Management

Become 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.

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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 Biology

    Designed 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 Programming

    The 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 Computing

    It 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

    Statistics

    This 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.