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About the Health Information Management Pre-Professional Program

On Campus

Health information managers are responsible for the maintenance and security of all patient records. They must stay up to date with evolving information technology and current, or proposed, laws about health information systems. Health information managers must ensure that databases are complete, accurate, and accessible only to authorized personnel.

The Health Information Management pre-professional program is designed to prepare students for further study in the field. The University of Nebraska at Kearney is currently affiliated with the following schools of Health Information Management:

University of Kansas Medical Center (Kansas City, Kan.)
Dakota State University (Madison, S.D.)

PROGRAM INFORMATION GUIDE

Responsibilities in health information management:

Reviews patient records for timeliness, completeness, accuracy and appropriateness of health data
Organizes and maintains data for clinical databases and registries
Electronically records data for collection, storage, analysis, retrieval and reporting
Tracks patient outcomes for quality assessment
Uses classification software to assign clinical codes for reimbursement and data analysis
Protects patients’ health information for confidentiality, authorized access for treatment and data security