Health Information Management (HIM) professionals are crucial for maintaining, securing, and analyzing healthcare data used by providers to deliver quality care. With the shift towards electronic information management, tech-savvy individuals are essential. HIM experts bridge the gap between clinicians, administrators, and tech professionals. HIM programs blend medicine, management, IT, finance, and law, enabling graduates to work in diverse healthcare roles.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be:
- positioned to become leaders in health care with the skills required to communicate and interact effectively with interdisciplinary teams.
- able to maintain, collect, protect, and analyze data that physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers rely upon to deliver quality care to patients.
- understand the underlying concepts for electronic health records and how the various types of information systems used in health care must interact to securely exchange the health information that is required to support decision-making and improve how healthcare is delivered.
Student Involvement
- You can participate in study tours coordinated by the department, like tours of healthcare facilities, presentations by staff, and more.
- You will engage in undergraduate research activities and participate in presentations of research at various conferences.
- You are invited to participate in on campus activities.
- You are eligible for student awards and recognitions, as well as scholarship opportunities.
Program Information
For more information about the program, please visit the links below.
HIIM serves as an excellent foundation for advanced degrees in health care administration, public health, data science and analytics, and law.
Students can sit for the RHIA (registered health information administrator) exam during the last quarter before graduation.
Minors that work well with this degree are:
- CIS
- Management
- General business
- Computer science
Department of Health Informatics and Information Management (HIIM)
318.257.2854
How are we different?
Students are allowed to enter the program at any time during the year and there are no special entrance requirements. Class sizes are small and advising is individualized.
The profession has been ranked in the top 10 of the U.S. News and World Report Top 100 Jobs ranking for the last four years.
Cost and Aid
Scholarships
Just like on-campus students, Tech Online students may be eligible for admission, departmental, or private scholarships. Louisiana residents may also be eligible for the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) scholarships awarded by the State of Louisiana. For more information about scholarships, please visit the Office of Financial Aid website.
Tuition
The Tech Online program is very unique in that there is flat fee per credit hour. There are no additional fees.
Undergraduate programs cost $400 per credit hour.
Careers
- Director of Health Information Management
- HIM database specialist
- Director of Quality Management
- Electronic health record specialist
- Manager hospital billing
- Medical coding specialist
- Coding educator and auditor
- Director of patient access
- Compliance officer
- Director medical staff services