BS in Health Informatics and Information Management

Health Information Management BS Program

The UT program, which awards a Bachelors of Science in Health Information Management, is the oldest in the state, graduating its first student in 1954. Over 600 graduates have completed the program. UT HIM has achieved full accreditation on every survey and has achieved outstanding results on the national certification examination. The program has outstanding faculty members who have served and are currently serving in numerous leadership positions in national, regional state and local levels of the professional organization. Guest speakers for classes include hospital administrators, attorneys, physicians, and other heath care professionals who provide valuable real world insights.

Education in a Health Science Center

The campus is part of the largest health science center in the Mid-South with clinical sites at Methodist University Hospital and the other Methodist-LeBonheur Healthcare facilities, Baptist Memorial Healthcare Hospitals, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Non hospital sites include ambulatory care centers, home health agencies, mental retardation facilities, behavioral health facilities, and managed care organizations.

Career Opportunities in Health Information Management

The range of job titles and breadth of responsibilities is amazing and UT students excel because of their academic preparation and ability to "hit the ground running," and grow quickly into managers and leaders. Even health care professionals are not always aware of the numerous types of positions that HIM professionals hold which are not in the traditional walls of the HIM department. Variety is one of the great aspects of being a health information management professional. You will qualify for many different types of positions at all types of facilities where your skills to manage health information in all of its formats are desperately needed.

There are currently 43 HIM professionals working at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital with such titles as Director of HIM; Lead Clinical Research Associate; Manager of Clinical Informatics; Billing Compliance Auditor; Quality Improvement Analyst; Manager of Insurance Communications; Coordinator of Managed Care Contracting; Data Analyst; Credentialing Specialist.

The Baptist Healthcare Corporation currently employs about 30 HIM professionals with such titles as Manager of System Health Information Management, System Director of HIM, System Director of Risk Management, Director of Quality Coding Services as well as managers and supervisors at all hospitals and facilities in the system.

Methodist Healthcare also employs nearly 30 HIM professionals with titles such as Corporate Administrative Director of HIM for Methodist Healthcare, Corporate Documentation Specialist, Quality Manager, Clinical Quality Analyst, Chargemaster Specialist, Clinical Informaticist, as well as managers and supervisors at all of the hospitals and facilities within the system.

The Veterans Affairs Medical Center, The Regional Medical Center at Memphis, St. Francis, UT Health Science Center, UT Medical Group, Behavioral Health Clinics, Community Clinics, Memphis Managed Care, Rehabilitation Clinics all employ Health Information Management Professionals in a such positions as Manager of Outpatient Operations, Utilization Manager, Manager of Coding and Systems, Trauma Registrar, Quality Improvement Manager, Director, Neurotrauma Registrar, Director of Clinical Coding in Revenue Services, Program Analyst, Clinical Applications Coordinator in Health Information Systems, Total Quality Improvement Coordinator, Privacy Coordinator, Privacy and Compliance Officer, Clinical Analyst, DRG Specialist, Quality Improvement Analyst, Manager of Special Projects.

Graduates work for vendors of health information management equipment and services and vendors of health information systems as sales representatives or trainers, as professors in education programs, consultants, as well as in insurance companies and in government agencies.

For additional information, please read our page of Frequently Asked Questions and Health Information Management brochure (use Adobe Reader).

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